We have added a few more labs and we are now at 8, with 2 being under vote right now.
The language/OS/committership is diverse and the community is healthy and attracting attention from all sides of the foundation. The 'neutrality' feeling that we wanted to inspire seems to be reflected in the community participation and in the diversity of technologies/prog-languages used in the various labs. There seems to be a cluster of interest in 'mail list' analysis (my Agora, Brett Porter's Mboxer and the proposed Pulse which is Ken's code that currently graphs the mail list usages) and, as Santiago put it, it's nice to see 'loosely coupled pieces' coming together in different labs. Personally, I think that putting loosely coupled pieces close together and see what happens was one of the reasons to start labs in the first place and the lack of friction seems to indicate that the effort is successful in bringing a little unity to otherwise personal efforts. It's hard to see at this point what evolution these pieces will undergo, but it's promising to see labs becoming a center of attraction for such "otherwise left on one's hard drive" efforts. Another interesting thing to note is Roy's request for a "web architecture lab", currently under vote, that is the first "code-less" lab proposed. As 'code-less' labs came up during the discussion for the creation of Apache Labs and nobody mentioned reasons to avoid them, it's safe to assume that it will pass (no negative votes from the PMC at this time). Then, it will be interesting to see how such lab evolves and weather this will inspire others to do similar things in other areas. No social or legal issues to report, the list has been relatively quiet during the xmas vacations but I suspect more traction will appear with the new year. >From the infra@ side, labs still don't have a zone, but since there is no much interest for it right now from the labs PIs, we see no reason, at this time, to push more for it. In short, no actions are required from the board. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
