Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of putting together the agenda for tomorrow's
> meeting. If you have something you'd like to suggest, please e-mail
> me. Thanks.
>
> -Eugene
>
While I won't be there (I'm in NY), I would suggest discussing
committing to one or more appropriate open source licenses
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
and code submission guidelines and agreements to replace "permission to
use". This commitment would be required to be on SourceForge.
Realistically, the license will probably be Mit/X/BSD-Revised or
GPL/LGPL, perhaps with an "Open Content" or "Open Publication"
license
http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/openpub-license.html
for emails, slides, and video.
I would recommend looking at the Python submission guidelines for some
ideas on what to ask from contributors:
http://www.python.org/patches/bugrelease.html
http://www.python.org/patches/wetsign.html
These are basically statements of originality and disclaimers of
contributor's liability.
If such a license can be agreed on, consider putting as much of the
existing code and repositories for Augment under it as is legally
possible, as well as the contents of the Colloquium (email, slides,
video). It is not important that a running version of Augment be put
under the license -- just that there is something symbolic to start with
(the "stone" in "stone soup" so to speak).
I for one would love to peruse the Augment source code and comments for
ideas.
If commitment to a license is not considered appropriate at this time,
at least discuss naming a date or time frame by which such commitment is
expected, or discuss putting in place a formal process to decide on a
license involving the mailing list, or discuss changing the mission
statement of the Colloquium to be a meta-NIC existing mainly to discuss
and catalogue existing OHS/DKR-like systems and suggest enhancements
(which is itself a worthwhile pursuit).
-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software
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Developers of custom software and educational simulations
Creators of the Garden with Insight(TM) garden simulator
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com
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