On 02/08/11 08:22, Peter Murray wrote:
Colleagues -- please excuse the cross-posting; I've found the circle of people
potentially interested in this was wider than I thought.
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant funding the start-up of LYRASIS
Technology Services, LTS is to produce a series of tools that enable libraries
to decide whether open source is right for their environments. I’ve put a page
up on the Code4Lib wiki
(http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Decision_Support_Tools) describing the
kinds of tools that will initially fall into this area. After review by the
LTS Advisory Panel and comments from the community, statements of work will be
drafted for consultants to create these tools and the work will be let out for
contract. The completed tools will be turned into web documents in the form of
whitepapers, checklists, spreadsheets, etc., and published along with the open
source software registry now under development. To encourage consultants to
share their knowledge, we are considering allowing consultants to identify
themselves in the text of the document (e.g. “Prepared for LYRASIS with funding
from the 2011-2012 Mellon Found
ation Open Source Support Grant by name of consultant.”)
Two points:
(1) The model seems appears not to capture "Project A builds on Project
B" This will make the model less-than-optimal for comparing (for
example) an open source Project A with an propriety Project B when B is
a fork of A.
(2) Standards. They appear not to be mentioned at all.
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/