Hi all. I'm writing in my role as SIMILE project manager with the intent of assuring that we keep everybody aware of what's happening. The SIMILE Project's current round of funding runs out in June. This note is to give some feel for how we think that transition might play out. This is all the natural progression of things. Change is good.
We expect another round of the SIMILE project but particulars are still in development. We are having a fun time sorting through our options. That said we know that the transition will provide people and code bases a chance to change and move around. We are extremely proud of the number of things we've got under our belts. There are dozens of extremely useful code bases in the source code repository. We hope to shift some of these around to improve the community dynamics. For example we intend to move some of the lighter weight tools, for example Timeline, off of MIT servers. We want to enable a more open and equitable community to form around these tools. Other code bases will remain closely tied to the next round of the SIMILE project. The natural progression of people's careers coupled with this transition will lead to some significant staff changes. Communicating the details of those is obviously the responsibility of the the individual involved and presumably they will do that as they see is appropriate. MIT is deeply entangled in these tools. For example take a look at Picker <http://picker.mit.edu/>. We are actively spinning up some systems here based on Longwell, though it's premature to announce those. We have some cool stuff in in the basement we hope to be dragging out into the sunlight real soon now. So there is no reason to be concerned that there won't be contributions from folks at MIT going forward. What we hope to achieve is a more diverse community at both the institutional and individual levels of contribution. Finally we expect to be involved in the Google Summer of Code this year, more details to follow. Feel free to ask questions, public or private! - ben _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
