I think we adhere to the Franklin Street statement. Adding Sandy Armstrong, one of Snowy's lead developers to the CC. Comments below:
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:48 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > Here's the Franklin Street > statement: http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ > > > > Developers of network service software are encouraged to: > > * Use the GNU Affero GPL, a license designed specifically for > network service software, to ensure that users of services > have the ability to examine the source or implement their own > service. Check, we're using the AGPL. > * Develop freely-licensed alternatives to existing popular but > non-Free network services. I don't think Tomboy Online is being developed as an alternative to other services but possible. Maybe Evernote? I really haven't used competitive products. > * Develop software that can replace centralized services and > data storage with distributed software and data deployment, > giving control back to users. Check. Users can install their own Snowy instance if they don't want to use Tomboy Online, which is GNOME's centralized service. > Service providers are encouraged to: > * Choose Free Software for their service. Check. > * Release customizations to their software under a Free Software > license. Check. We haven't set up a specific repository for Tomboy Online as we're using the Snowy repo on GNOME's git servers, but if we were to do that, we'd continue to use GNOME. > * Make data and works of authorship available to their service’s > users under legal terms and in formats that enable the users > to move and use their data outside of the service. This means: > * Users should control their private data. > * Data available to all users of the service should be > available under terms approved for Free Cultural > Works or Open Knowledge. > Yes and No. The user controls their private data - they are his or her notes. The user can set if they're public or not. However, the second bullet - just because a note is public doesn't mean that it's automatically under a CC license, for example. Maybe we can add a feature to add a copyright / copyleft assignment to notes similar to Flickr. I don't know - not sure if I'm reading this right or if it's applicable. Paul > > I think Tomboy follows its principles pretty closely. Paul, can you > comment? > > > Stormy > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Paul Cutler <pcut...@gnome.org> > wrote: > Hi Zonker, > > For the Tomboy Online alpha: > > 1. Alpha signups are starting today. The form to sign up is > at > > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZleG05V196b3g4VUFSTHhzcTRFMmc6MQ > > 2. The alpha is invite only and we will be reviewing the list > over the > next week or so. Tomboy Online will be available for alpha > users > sometime in the next week or two, we have a bug to fix first. > > 3. This is alpha quality software and we are not making any > guarantees > about data integrity nor do we have a privacy policy in place > yet. More > in the FAQ here: http://live.gnome.org/Snowy/FAQ > > 4. We don't know how long the alpha will last yet prior to > launching the > beta. Our goal is to launch the beta in 6 months with GNOME > 3.0. > > 5. Tomboy Online is GNOME's first AGPL web service, and as you > point > out, a great tie-in for SFD. > > Let me know if you need any more information. > > Paul > > > > > From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> > > Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM > > Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day > > To: Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> > > Cc: Paul Cutler <pcut...@gnome.org>, marketing-list > <marketing-list@gnome.org> > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stormy Peters > <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > <j...@zonker.net> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hey Stormy, > > >> > > >> I think the online alpha is way more newsworthy than > saying "some > > >> GNOME developers are taking part in this larger thing." > > >> > > >> We can tie it into SFD by saying GNOME is looking ahead > to the next > > >> generations of services for software freedom, and then > mention the > > >> other. > > > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > What do you need from me or the Tomboy Online team? > > > > Just the relevant details for the launch, how to sign up, > etc. > > > > Best, > > > > Z > > -- > > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> > > About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ > > > > > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
