On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 14:59 +0100, Le Projet Veni Vidi Libri wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Tolosano on Framasoft's Forums (the famous french-speaking > website on Free and OpenSource Softwares) and I contribute to the > project, called Veni, Vidi, Libri > (http://wiki.framasoft.info/Projets/VeniVidiLibri). > > NOTE : Veni, Vidi, Libri speaks about free as in Libre Software. > > Aims of this project are to promote Free Licenses and make it easier > for developpers to change their license to free one. > > The project search in particular to contact "propietary" developpers > in order to > > * expose them Free Licenses advantages (and inconveniences), that's to > say inform them ; > * put them in relationship with Framasoft's community, through Forums, > in order to meet and exchange with users ; > * help and follow them in the differents steps of releasing their > software in an Free license ; and moreover understand the reasons why > they refuse to do it ; > * and to lavish right advices on maintain their projects, and give > them differents ways to get new users and contributors. > > For this project, we wish propose several issues for developpers, and > propose them concrete ways in order to get new contributors. > > Collaborative software development management systems represent a real > advantage and offer lots of services, like a powerful network, in > order to make it smoother to get visible and reactive project. > > This is why we wish to ask you some questions, actually we want > present each collaborative system, and define it specifically. > > We informe you that all the project release under GNU FDL license. > > We began to define the system itself (but available only in french, > for the moment) http://wiki.framasoft.info/VeniVidiLibri/Plateformes > : Plateformes de développement collaboratif. > > Here it is the first questions, which are general ones : > > - When was born Gna ?
It was setup in january 2004 and started on february (3rd). > - What is the goal of this project ? To host Free Software projects and foster cooperation and participation around Free Software. It's also a reference platform (with savannah.gnu.org) for the "Savane" forge software. > - What is the Philosophy of Gna ? We're picky about what is Free Software and stand strictly by the philosophy of the GNU project. A "constitution" has been set up to clarify the details: http://about.gna.org/ > - What is the ''raison d'être'', the essential purpose of Gna in > comparison of others collaborative systems ? Our commitment to Free Software and exclusion of non-free contributions. Gna! can also be regarded as a "legal-safe" software repository, as we make sure that every software is properly licensed and always GPL compatible. I don't think any other platform provides and enforce this legal expertise (apart our cousin savannah.gnu.org). > - How many people take part to Gna's project ? (administrators, holders...) ? It was started with 3 people, we have 2-3 contributors right now. > - How many projects are registered on Gna ? As of May, 18 2006, there are 726 projects. > - How shall you explain to a developper interests to join a > collaborative system ? And Gna particularly ? Gna! provides lots of services for a developer: - tools: SCM, downloads, ticketing, mailing-lists - visibilty - support and advice - safety (backups) - ubiquity: we make sure Gna! is always available and will always be (archive, etc) ... all in one. > - Are some requisite points on registering on Gna ? If so, what are they ? As a user, nothing special, it's automatic and instant. For projects, there is a process and check-list. A brief sum-up would be: - you need a user account - you need to understand our constitution - you need to submit GPL-compatible software - you need to show actual code and make sure it is properly licensed > - What is the average lead time to register a project on Gna ? I'm not sure, I would say 1-2 days, although it's often less. > - How to register ? Apply online at https://gna.org/register/ > We have also some technical questions relating to Gna's offers : > - Authorized Languages for hosted projects (english, german, french, > spannish...) Any language. > - Disk storage, We're permissive, we just check for abuses. For instance, we don't allow "Linux distribution" hosting (easily takes gigabytes). We're not short of disk space. > - Support Languages (PHP4, PHP5, Perl, Python, etc...), None. For site hosting we only allow SSI (server-side includes). We consider website hosting to be a separate (and costly/dangerous) job. > - Forum available, None. > - Number and type of dataBase available (MySQL, PostGreSQL), None. > - Number of Email accounts and aliases, One (1), plus any number of mailing-lists. > - Domain registration, We can map user-owned domains to a Gna! project home on demand. > - Managing FTP, Nope, we provide HTTP and rsync. > - Managing DNS, Nope. > - Stats. Yep, for homepages and downloads (http://stats.gna.org/) and site global (https://gna.org/stats/). > Obviously, you got all the time to answer. We are (me and others > collaborators of the project) available if you have any questions > about this interview or our project. > > To conclude, I invite you to complete this interview by adding all the > questions I may have forgot, and that you'll judge interessant to give > an answer. > > Thank you for having paid attention to this mail. I hope you will > answer. Please feel free to give us your impressions about this mail > or our project. You're welcome. Please notify us when you have results at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ! _______________________________________________ Project mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gna.org:8080/listinfo/project
