imo pinging the legal mailing list is a great idea. regards, gerhard
http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/2/4 Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> > Hi! > > First of all: thanks Bart, that would be way cool if you could help us with > pimping our documentation! > > For the legal question: > Actually contains of 2 parts: > All people who like to write articles in our Wiki need to have a CLA [1] on > file. This is just to make sure that the ASF cannot get blamed for > 'stealing' things from somewhere. Just send the signed&scanned iCLA to > secret...@apache.org and that's all from the ASF side. > > The other legal aspect is if you can reuse parts of your book. Please ask > for the ok of your publisher. Usually that's not a big deal because they are > happy about such ads ;) But it has to be done, just to make sure. > > All: I know the wiki/CMS is a community project, but if the contribution is > homogenuous and reaches a certain size, then I think we can also add a > preposition containing something like "Parts of this article are taken from > and based upon Bart Kummels Book 'Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application > Development', packtpub publishing 2009". Not sure how we express the grant > to publish it on our wiki though... > > All, is this ok from a community perspective? Bart i,s this ok from an > Authors perspective? Any more input? Or should we check with legal or board > to be sure? > > > LieGrue, > strub > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt > > --- On Fri, 2/4/11, Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [myfaces site] community information > To: "MyFaces Development" <dev@myfaces.apache.org> > Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 3:58 PM > > as far as i know the publisher supports open-source projects.however, we > have to think about possible issues.maybe a patch with "Grant license to ASF > for inclusion in ASF works (as per the Apache License ยง5)" would be a good > idea (before we commit the final text). > > > regards,gerhard > http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF powerhouse - > JSF Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > > > 2011/2/4 Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> > > > great to hear that you will have time for an initial brainstorming! > regards,gerhard > http://www.irian.at > > > > Your JSF powerhouse - > > JSF Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > 2011/2/4 Bart Kummel <b...@kummelweb.nl> > > > > Hi all, > I discussed this with Gerhard via IM. I will put some drafts on the wiki > page he created next week. I plan to re-use some texts from my book, which > by itself is a good introduction to MyFaces, also for non-maven projects. > > > > > Best regards,Bart > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:57, Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > i've created a page [1] in our dev-wiki for brainstorming. > regards,gerhard > > > > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Drafts/Site > > > http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF powerhouse - > JSF Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > > > > 2011/2/3 Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > thx for the hint mark! > regards,gerhard > > http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF powerhouse - > JSF Consulting, Development and > > > > > > > Courses in English and German > > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > 2011/2/3 Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> > > > > > > > > +1 for better community doku > > > > +0 for wiki. There is the new Apache CMS [1] out now, and a few projects > already move their documentation stuff over from the wiki to the CMS (tool > for it see [2]). We should at least take a look at it before we put effort > into a wiki which might get replaced soon. > > > > > > > > > > > LieGrue, > > strub > > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheCms2010 > > [2] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/conversion-utilities/cwiki > > > > > > --- On Thu, 2/3/11, Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > From: Gerhard <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [myfaces site] community information > > To: "MyFaces Development" <dev@myfaces.apache.org> > > Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7:02 PM > > > > hi @ all, > > i was told that it isn't easy to find all the basic information about our > community. > > imo:we should re-write e.g. the "Welcome to the Apache MyFaces Project" > section. > > > > the introduction should be more community centric and we should also > re-visit the other parts of the page.furthermore, we should start/continue > with our new wiki [1]. > > regards, > > > > gerhard > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYFACES > > http://www.irian.at > > > > > > > > Your JSF powerhouse - > > JSF Consulting, Development and > > Courses in English and German > > > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > Bart Kummel > > > > > > Author of the book Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development > > > > > blog: BK | twitter: @bkummel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
