Faustus von Goethe wrote:
>
> Hey Guys:
>
> I have myself and (until now, as far as I can remember) so has every other
> potential developer scrupulously and politely AVOIDED using the Foundation's
> lists to recruit writers or discuss specific products (except as they
> pertained to the Licenses).
>
> Because of the essential politeness that the list has maintained up to now I
> have had no problem with the (sometimes HUNDREDS) of posts that clog my
> email box on a daily basis - since they are all list related.
>
> Although we do not have a written policy specifically forbidding RECRUITING
> or ADVERTISING I think it has been a testament to our overall maturity that
> the list has been free of "ads for employment" and endless "product
> development" discussions.
I think that, with some guidelines, this could become a valuable subset
of the list. A large part of open-source is the development of shared
standards, even among commercial products. For example, the 'rituals'
rules promised for R&R could become a 'D20 Standard', as might the
superhero rules from wossname, the upcoming D20 Supers game from
someone. Announcement of projects (commercial or otherwise) in the form
of a simple "Link here" also is not particularly consumptive of
bandwidth.
If the R&R 'open call' is succesful, it could become the model by which
future books are built by contribution -- certainly one of the goals of
open source gaming is to help spread the task of development.
