Thanks for the idea, David, and for being the first NuPIC-Community project.

Here's how this will work....

1. https://github.com/orgs/nupic-community is not owned by Numenta,
but by the NuPIC community itself. It is a group project, currently
with three "owners" (David, Fergal, myself). Any owner has
administrative rights to projects in the repository. As new projects
are submitted into nupic-community, the maintainers of each project
will be added to the owners list.

2. Projects within nupic-community must be open source, but can have
whatever OS license they wish (as long as it's legal*).

3. Numenta has no control over projects within this GitHub
organization. Each project continues to be copyright of the author(s).

4. The Numenta Contributor License does not apply to repos in
nupic-community (unless you desire it).

5. The Numenta open source development process [1] and workflow [2]
also do not apply (unless you desire it).

6. Anyone may ask to transfer ownership of their repository into
https://github.com/orgs/nupic-community, and I encourage you to do so.

7. Project owners are responsible for handling the day-to-day
operations of their projects. This includes development process,
dealing with contributions, issue tracking, etc.

8. This mailing list may be used to discuss projects within
nupic-community (if this becomes distracting to uninterested parties
on the list, I will create a new mailing list dedicated to
nupic-community projects).


In short, this is really just a way to collect NuPIC-related open
source projects into one place and encourage community development and
cooperation. I really hope this becomes a hotbed of NuPIC activity,
and THE place to go see what people are doing with NuPIC.

Do you have an OS project that uses NuPIC or toys around with HTM
theories? If so, consider making
https://github.com/orgs/nupic-community your project's home. You'll
get more visibility, you'll automatically be associated with the
leading NuPIC-inspired projects that community members are producing,
and you'll still have the same control of your code, licenses, and
copyrights.

* IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of the nature of GPLv3, projects that in any
way include Numenta intellectual property or NuPIC source code (or
deploy with NuPIC code) MUST stick with the same GPLv3 license of
NuPIC. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

[1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Development-Process
[2] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Developer-workflow
---------
Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:12 AM, David Ragazzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This week I've suggested to Matt create a common place where all NuPIC
> community members could provide their projects that they don't want loose
> control and neither they are under Numenta contributor license. He liked the
> idea it and created the "NuPIC Community" organization on GitHub where both
> Numenta and NuPIC community could use and share projects freely under
> conventional open source licenses.
>
> This said, NuPIC Studio is now a part of the NuPIC Community!! The link is
> bellow:
>
> https://github.com/nupic-community/nupic.studio
>
> Although you still can access using the old link
> (https://github.com/DavidRagazzi/nupic.studio), keep in mind that now it is
> only my personal fork to temporary jobs.
>
> By the way, I reinforce Fergal's words:
> "Thanks to Matt for his great work in building a great community and
> ecosystem around HTM and NuPIC."
>
> Best wishes,
> --
> David Ragazzi
> MSc in Sofware Engineer (University of Liverpool)
> OS Community Commiter at Numenta.org
> --
> "I think James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary, is right when he says that
> the only prophets are those who make their future. So we're not
> anticipating, we're working for it."

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