> At 1:16 PM +1000 on 5/1/99, Adrian Sutton wrote:
>
> >It should be possible to set up a group copyright, just like the
> >company MetaCard owns the copyright to MetaCard, not an
> >individual within the company (I would assume so anyway). We
> >would have to register the OpenCard group officially and I don't
> >know what process to go by for that, especially due to the
> >international aspects of the OpenCard group.
>
> Umm... two words: "legal mess". We'd need to be incorporated somewhere.
Yeah, I thought as much. We'll have to see if we can avoid this,
but we shouldn't shy away from it too much, it could hold many
benefits as well as disadvantages.
> >I think the idea of a leader is quite sound, but we need to determine
> >exactly how the group will work before we get too carried away with
> >this. The UFP got part way through this process a while back, but
> >no vote was ever taken and I'm not sure what happened to the idea.
>
> I think it's sitting on my hard drive and gathering dust.
>
> I believe we already had that decided on OpenCard. Alain was to handle the
> collaboration aspects and I was to handle programming ones.
My apologies, I was in the process of moving when this list was
created so I missed a bit. :) If this has been decided then I'm
happy to stick with the decision. We still need vice-presidents and
interface leaders though.
> >
> >Come to think of it, this appears to be the general context of the
> >UFP and OpenCard in general so far. Neither group has actually
> >released a product or made a definite decision so far. We've never
> >created an infrastructure to use when voting and hence haven't
> >voted on anything. This is really quite concerning. OpenCard
> >needs to define it's internal structure as soon as possible so that
> >we can get some really productive work done.
>
> Dang it, you're right. All talk and no decisions. Well, actually we've had
> a few:
> I think we're using MPW
> We're going with my interpreter, not Uli's "Velocity."
>
> UFP was working on some things, but most momentum was taken by OpenCard.
Yes, UFP is very close to releasing a few things, I think I'll pay
some extra attention to UFP later on this weekend and see what
we've still got lying around to be finished. OpenCard seems to be
cruising along nicely actually, we just need structure, and we're on
the road to getting that now. :)
Did we lose all of the OpenCard web page? I might play with that
sometime this weekend and see if I can't come up with something
to publicise the campaign and keep us informed of decisions and
progress that's been made.
Adrian Sutton.
