Hi Giorgio and list members,
I'm just back from holidays and reading the SAOG proposal...
It seems clear that Eric's commitments will inevatably lead to a
redistribution of responsibilities within the SA community. This could
include the establishment of a formal "open group" if that is useful for
commercial and or EU participants. However, I feel that Giorgio's proposal
represents a narrowing of the field in comparison to the current MIT based
saol-dev / saol-user situation.
While I sympathise with Giorgio's fears regarding the fate of an open-source
implementation of SAINT, I can't help but feel that making it the
centerpiece of an "SA Open Group" runs against the grain of "SA as a
standard not an implementation" and also against notions of survival of the
open-source fittest. Personally I'd like to see the MIT lists and web site
continue as the vendor neutral forum for SA developers. I'd be happy to help
out with cleaning up the site.
That said, I do think that if you want to establish SAINT as distributed
open-source development project it will need it's own web infrastructure
a-la mozilla or python. Perhaps the "SAINT Open Group" would be a more
appropriate title.
It also occurred to me that if the definition of SAOG was narrowed to be
even more SAINT-dev specific it could co-exist along side the current MIT
lists and site.
Best wishes to all,
Ross.
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