I do not want to make this a big issue, therefore agree with:
"The Apache Stanbol project was initiated by the European R&D project
IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack[1]."
One could also add:
Some people who are working on the project are part-funded by the IKS
project, as well as by several European SME CMS providers, who are
adopting [2] the Apache Stanbol.
*If* there is an issue about acknowledgements, I could imagine to do it
similar to other projects [3] (arbitrarily chosen), where the community
members are listed together with their companies.
Better?
Andreas
[1] http://www.iks-project.eu/
[2] http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Participants
[3] https://aries.apache.org/community/people.html
Stefane Fermigier schrieb:
On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Stefane Fermigier <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
... Apache projects are not funded by external entities,
This particular one, at least (and probably most of the others) are. Or are you
implying everyone is working on these projects for free ?
No, Stanbol is not funded by IKS.
You obviously have a very different different notion of "being funded" than me.
For me, there is money being spent by some organizations to make the project
happen. I call this being funded.
What don't you like about this definition ?
IKS is welcome to make donations to the ASF
I'm not talking about donations to the ASF and you perfectly know that.
I suggest
changing this to just "the Apache Stanbol project was initiated by the
European R&D project IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack" with the link.
How about: "Some people who are working on the Apache Stanbol project are funded by
European R&D project IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack, as well as several european SME
[list the SMEs]" ?
Right now, I'm ok with that if we mention IKS only, and if we want to
be complete we should add "until the end of 2012".
If you want to add company names to that, we need to define rules that
make sure that's done in a fair way. Do we include independents
working on Stanbol on their own time, for example? Do we include
companies whose employees submitted just one patch? This needs a
separate discussion, so right now I'd say include IKS only.
Nuxeo is funding part of the effort and out of that funding, expects to see
some respect and some love.
That's probably true for the other contributing organizations, but I won't
speak for them.
S.
