> For example:
>
> - what is our commitment to free software ?
> - should we collaborate (fund, advertise,...) with closed proprietary
> software ?
> - how do we take decisions (equality, transparency, collaboration, taking
> care of minorities,...) ?
> - are there some reserved territories within the source code ?
> - is the acceptation of google terms of service a necessary condition for
> a person to be allowed to take part to the decisions ?
These questions are fundamental but I admit that discussing them and
implementing them require time and efforts. I do not claim that these
are not important, but rather that it would be really hard to get
people involved on something that looks secondary (the first being
coding what I need for my research).
> It would have instead been so easy to open a page on the
> existing wiki, and send an email about "Hey, why not working together on
> this" ? Did you fear the result so that you prefered such a closed debate ?
This is not fair. Writing a community expectation was proposed by
Karl-Dieter Crisman and supported by Harald Schilly and Francois
Bissey. And William pointed a (short) sentence that is doing so
"Both the Sage development model and the technology in Sage itself are
distinguished by an extremely strong emphasis on openness, community,
cooperation, and collaboration: we are building the car, not
reinventing the wheel."
I started a copy-paste of the previous thread
http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageCommunityProposal
that everybody is welcome to edit.
Vincent
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