CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN KFORGE CLUB We are pleased to be able to invite you to participate in KForge Club.
JOIN THE CLUB Please participate by joining the club at the service desk: <http://appropriatesoftware.net/foundation/KForgeClub.html> BACKGROUND For the last 4 years the costs of developing KForge have been borne by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Appropriate Software Foundation. In order to support the development of KForge into the future we are now creating a software club as a mechanism for sharing the costs of development and guiding that process. We should emphasize that KForge will, of course, remain open-source software. What is KForge? KForge is an open-source (GPL) Python-based system for software and knowledge project hosting. It re-uses many existing best-of-breed tools such as a versioned storage (subversion, hg), a tracker (trac), a wiki (trac or moinmoin) and others (mailman, joomla, etc.) by adapting them as services within the system's own facilities (projects, members, roles, etc). KForge also provides a complete web interface for administration of project members and services, as well a fully-developed plugin system so that new kinds of services can be easily added. Why KForge Club? It is clear that there are common hosting needs across many software and knowledge projects. KForge Club is a way to share the cost of developing project hosting capabilities, so that every project can benefit from an open, high-quality, well-supported offering. At this time, the key objectives are: to complete KForge v1.0 software; to sustain the KnowledgeForge.net service; and to host the club. SCHEDULE Monday, Aug 3 2009 - Call for Participation Monday, Aug 17 2009 - Call for New Proposals Monday, Sep 14 2009 - Call for Interest Monday, Oct 12 2009 - Call for Agreement PARTICIPATION Joining the club is free of charge. Members will be involved in a safe and transparent process of sharing common costs. Members will be invited to submit new proposals, and to comment on proposals submitted by others. The club will publish a prospectus of costed proposals. Members will be asked to evaluate the benefit of each proposal. Possible shares of the cost of each proposal will be discussed, and conditional agreements drafted. The club will call for final agreement of any conditional agreements. Proposals that reach consensus are actioned, with progress reported at fixed intervals. The cycle will then be repeated. Information on how clubs work is published on the club tutorial page. http://appropriatesoftware.net/foundation/ClubTutorial.html ABOUT US KForge Club is hosted by John Bywater (Appropriate Software Foundation) and Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation). The Appropriate Software Foundation is a service-oriented software and organisation development consultancy, dedicated to creating and providing open-source software services that enable small organisations to accomplish their objects. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally. The Foundation's activities are organized around individual working groups and projects, each focused on a different aspect of open knowledge, but united by a common set of concerns, and a common set of traditions in both etiquette and process. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
