Hi David, Congrats to your PhD and a new job! I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for what you've done for the Simile projects. You guys have done an amazing job, making Semantic web accessible to the larger technical community. I, personally, would like to thank you for helping me out in my investigation of the semantic web technology a few years ago. While your contributions to PiggyBank and other Simile projects are significant, it's the effort to keep the source code open, and the on going support, which you've done in a timely manner continuously, that helps spread the technology to a much wider audience. Let's keep in touch. When you come out to the Bay Area, I would very much like to meet you in person, and take you around for a sight seeing tour.
Chung Le Founder and President, RD3 Software Corp. David Huynh wrote: > Hi all, > > As you might know, I have recently finished my Ph.D. study, and within a > few months I'll be moving on to a "real job" at Metaweb. > > The Metaweb folks have been kind to let me dedicate some time toward > open source involvement, which means that I can continue to work on > Timeline, Exhibit, etc. to some extent. > > However, it is clear that I won't be able to dedicate as much time to > those projects as I can right now. So, it is crucial that we arrange for > more people to get involved in those projects so that those projects > continue to thrive. > > One possibility is to move the code bases onto an open source foundry, > such as Google Code, and invite the more programming capable among > yourself to maintain and improve them further. Note that this solution > is even better than the current situation, as there will be more capable > people involved than just me alone. Together we'll work out the > knowledge transfer, etc. etc. over the next few months. > > Please don't hesitate to chime in here if you have other ideas or just > want to speak your mind. The worst thing that can happen is that nobody > expresses their concerns, no transition gets made, and the good code > just withers away. > > Thanks, > > David > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
