Hi list, this is a call for participation:
Alexander and me would like to invite all codebase developers with CVS rights to participate in an online discussion via IRC for the future organizational aspects of Kannel. The place is: IRC channel #kannel irc.freenode.net The date and time is: Fri, 19th Sep 2003 <--! mark this in your diary ;) 2:00pm CET The topics we want to have discussed are mainly on how we are about forming a legal body to hold all copyright of the Kannel source code and act as representative to the outside world. There are two options we currently focus on. First - forming an own foundation, the KSF. Seconds - letting Kannel incubate into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as project. The second option has some objectives that should be reviewed, please see http://incubator.apache.org for more details on how Apache incubates projects. Main effect we would reach with an Apache incubation would be IMO: * more popularity for the who project, in means of new developers and commercial companies incorporating the software into commerical products (think of adding Kannel into IBM's WebSphere application server, etc.) * less organizational overhead, in means of all the things we would have to do while forming an own legal body. * a well organized developer community and infrastructure base. Discussions should be opened now on this mail thread and actively tomorrow in the IRC session! Please paticipate actively! Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are