Hello everyone, 1) Protection from the harm of project leaders or some key people in the project being vanished could be organized, I would suggest, in the following way:
The project sets up some place where the important information is being kept and maintained by the key people of the project. It could be the same system that is used for sharing the code. The project community sets up a limit for the time of absence of some important role. When the person that is responsible for that role in the project logins to do daily things he/she is automatically checks in to be present in the project. If, for some reason, the person hasn't checked in for the certain time, the hole information is passed to his deputies being elected by community or directly appointed by that person. That way the problem is reduced only to the responsibility and honesty to keep important information updated and also securing it. I guess it is not a big deal to implement such thing in github for example. 2) The motivation and devoted time to the project could well be stimulated by setting up some openmoney system* the points from which could be exchanged, let's say on some hardware or other stuff from sponsors that will except the money of the project. So, this way, everyone will have opportunity to benefit and earn some goods (not necessary money). *(see http://openmoney.ning.com/ for lots of info and http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ ) # Other links to openmoney software already in use: http://openmoney.editme.com/omsoft http://project.cyclos.org # A good resource for info: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ # a wealth-acknowledgment information system: http://openmoney.info/sophia/index.html http://openmoney.org/ # wiki list of existing and developing "social currency software projects": http://openmoney.ning.com/forum/topics/wiki-list-of-existing-and I do have lot of information and links about openmoney. Whoever is interested please write to me. Regards, Serge William Stein wrote: > [...] > Anyway, I would appreciate people sharing their thoughts about how to > make the Sage project more organized with respect to key people > vanishing -- either temporarily or permantly -- from the project. If > you have relevant experience with other projects, or no of good articles > about this sort of thing, etc., please share. > > Thanks! > > -- William > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
