forwarding this thread for group decision making. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Turadg Aleahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM Subject: Re: moving the portal to google code - we need a new name To: Rokham Sadeghnezhadfard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jim Slotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Perritano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoff Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Celorrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hiroki Terashima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rokham, you may get more answers to your questions on the SAIL-Dev list. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Rokham Sadeghnezhadfard < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally agree with Turadg. If we want to make it the common portal, we > definitely should see what the other groups think. It probably will take > some time for them to be able to take a look at the code and figure out what > they like in the portal and what not. It's not something that can be decided > immediately. I would think given it took us a retreat to decide what goes > into roolo, the portal probably asks for another retreat. > > So let's hear some ideas on what're some efficient ways to see what > commonalities we need in the Sail Portal across the different groups and how > we can go about achieving those goals? > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Turadg Aleahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So it's got Pas stuff now, but you expect that it will have Pas stuff >> refactored out so that eventually the "sailportal" project will have no Pas >> stuff. That seems fine, though there is a slight risk to appearing to other >> SAIL participants that the "SAIL Portal" is basically for Pas. >> >> I know we'd like to have a common portal that is used outside of Pas. But >> for the sake of good governance of the SAIL software community, shouldn't >> participants beside the Pas team have a say in what, if anything, gets >> labeled "the SAIL Portal" ? >> >> Here's my position: If it's for Pas, then put "Pas" in the name. If it's >> for all of SAIL, then involve other key SAIL participants (Concord and SCY) >> in the decision of what to call it and where to host it. Maybe that's >> already been done and I am unaware. >> >> Though while I was writing the above, the message from Tony came in so I >> guess that's that. After this next (expected) community expansion at ICLS, >> I think we should revisit the matter of a governance model. >> >> >> -t >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Rokham Sadeghnezhadfard < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> From my understanding what Jim said was the plan anyway. We were to treat >>> pas portal as Sail's portal by extracting common features from TELS and >>> co-developing it with the Berkley/European/Concord groups. Calling it >>> sailportal would be a good start to make it the common code base where >>> everyone knows about it too. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Jim Slotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> i guess I'm thinking that if I do anythin with SAIL I'll probably be >>>> using this portal. I can't for the life of me imagine developing a new >>>> one, >>>> and we want as wide a community as possible to develop toward it, including >>>> the (very non-pas) europeans. >>>> So - just calling it sailportal, short and sweet, makes most sense to >>>> me, and let pas be a project that sits on top of it, with substantial >>>> skewing of the configuration. >>>> >>>> But Jakob, Adam, and our group in Toronto, as well as (hopefully) >>>> concord will all be running users and groups with no pas. And I assume >>>> they'll be using this portal - and we want them to help develop it, right? >>>> >>>> j >>>> >>>> >>>> On 9-Jun-08, at 4:12 PM, Anthony Perritano wrote: >>>> >>>> i agree, That PAS should be mentioned. "SAIL Pas Portal for elearning" >>>> as its description. >>>> for apache license. would we have to change the license of SAIL core? >>>> what is the incentive of using the apache license? >>>> >>>> -Tony >>>> >>>> On [Jun 9], at 12:37 PM, Turadg Aleahmad wrote: >>>> >>>> "sailportal" as the short name for "SAIL Portal" makes sense. >>>> >>>> I suppose this decision is already made, but I wonder whether "*SAIL* >>>> Portal" is accurate? Does this portal code work for all SAIL (e.g. >>>> anything >>>> not Pas) stuff? >>>> >>>> If it is made for Pas, I'd suggest saying so. The SAIL brand is >>>> important, so perhaps the "SAIL Pas Portal". Seems like SAIL could have >>>> multiple different portals. >>>> >>>> LGPL is fine. I lean towards more liberal licenses. Have you >>>> considered Apache? >>>> >>>> -t >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Anthony Perritano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> we can't have spaces in the name. so SAIL Portal can't fly. and it must >>>>> be lower case. >>>>> >>>>> we can still do: >>>>> >>>>> sailportal >>>>> >>>>> what license do we want? >>>>> >>>>> SAIL is LGPL >>>>> >>>>> ROOLO is GPL v3 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -Tony >>>>> >>>>> On [Jun 9], at 10:47 AM, Jim Slotta wrote: >>>>> >>>>> i would favor SAIL Portal. >>>>>> >>>>>> jds >>>>>> >>>>>> On 9-Jun-08, at 1:22 PM, Anthony Perritano wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hiroki and i want to move the portal to google code. asap. In prep >>>>>>> for ICLS. we can call it SAIL Portal or PAS Portal. or some other name. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Have any suggestions? names? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> its a portal for learning. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Portal of Learning Objects (POLO) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Tony >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -Tony >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -Tony >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rokham >> >> >> > > > -- > Rokham -- Rokham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
