Thanks David and Matt, for taking the initiative on this!  This could be a
great place for Season of NuPIC code, hackathon projects, etc.

--Subutai

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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