On Sunday 10 May 2009 21:37:33 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > 2009/5/8 Sebastian Trüg <[email protected]>: > > I understand your concerns with Oscaf. As for the paying members: this is > > only intended for industry players. KDE for example is a non-paying > > member. > > How doe one become a non-paying member? I just checked out the > application form and I was not sure if that was the right way... Of > course the first question is really whether it makes sense if we form > a real organization for Xesam and sign that one up. I have not given > this a lot of thought yet, but any comments would be welcome.
AFAICS signing up Xesam is as simple as me writing an email to DERI. That should be sufficient. > > Apart from that Oscaf is not very active yet and in the near future you > > can expect us (the Xesam and Nepomuk-KDE community) to be the most > > active. Players like Nokia will also mostly (if not entirely) contribute > > though open-source channels (again: Xesam, probably Evgeny and Philip). > > The same is true for Mandriva. > > AFAICT we simply are the most important users of the ontologies to date. > > So it makes sense to get in there and make the Xesam/Nepomuk-KDE voice > > heard. > > > > Still, this does not solve the technical aspects since Oscaf has no bug > > tracking or code hosting system (apart from the sf project Leo created). > > And mailing lists? I could not find any public mailing lists on the > oscaf.org site or the SF project page... As I said: this thread is intended for these things, to figure out if we should create these lists and so on. I can do that anytime, but will only do it if we agree on using them. :) > > So the Oscaf question is not really worth discussing. We should be in > > there, we are in there. The question is where do we (and this already > > means Xesam and the rest of the Oscaf members) host the code and the > > bugs. Where do we discuss. And like that I am back to a platform other > > than Xesam or Nepomuk. But I will not follow that road again. :P > > Thus, in conclusion: don't be afraid of Oscaf, we have the opportunity to > > shape it, to make it act the way we need. Because the buzzwords on the > > oscaf page AFAIK are all there is. > > Ok, so what we need to do now is just getting to it! :-) I really > don't care how or where those lists are hosted, only that we get stuff > done to make the FOSS desktop the coolest platform to do > searching/semantic stuff on. Amen to that. Cheers, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
