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." > >
