Community Group Meeting 30 Nov 2004

Discussion

• Twiki vandalism is on the rise. Ducky has been working on better early-warning systems.
• Ducky is working on converting the Creative Commons script to a plug-in and getting it into the TWiki code base. The TWiki folks sounded somewhat excited by this, as I could make it so that you had a
• Main.root -- Revision 1.5 on date Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:15:37 Local
• PieterHartsook -- Revision 1.4 on date Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:56:35 Local
• DuckySherwood -- Revision 1.3 on date Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:10:15 Local
• DuckySherwood -- Revision 1.2 on date Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:13:37 Local
• DuckySherwood -- Revision 1.1 on date Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:27:08 Local

variable that you could put into the skin, thus not needing to maintain the contributors list by hand.

• Mitchell has gotten some comments back from a lawyer about the contributor license and is reviewing them.
• The "headless Chandler" piece of Developer Dogfood has moved from being a 0.5 feature to being a 0.6 feature. Ted assured everybody that the headless piece wasn't a huge deal. (It doesn't keep anything from working, it just means there is a perhaps-unneeded Chandler window.)
• Ted joined the meeting via Skype and a lavalier microphone; the sound quality was thoroughly acceptable. We dreamed briefly about using Skype to make our staff meetings more public, but Skype doesn't really have the ability for people to call in to a conference. We also took Pieter's headset, plugged the mic jack but not headset jack in, and stood the mic boom up in the center of the table. That worked almost as well.
• Pieter is working on a MarketingPlan.
• Pieter is working on logistics and agenda for the upcoming Westwood Advisory Council meeting.
• Pieter added the Creative Commons RDF to the web site, so if you have the plugin, you'll see the license requirements for the site.

Action items from last meeting

• Ducky to write a tutorial based on Morgen's servlets. in progress
• Ducky to clean up the contributor-finding/listing script and give it to Creative Commons. Looks like the appropriate thing to do is repackage as a TWiki plugin (much interest over in twikiland), in progress
• Ted to talk to Katie about going to the Westwood Advisory Council meeting.
• Mitchell to update the LicensingTopics page.
• Mitchell to put out a draft contributor license. in progress
• Mitchell to decide if she needs to put out a separate draft contributor license specifically for PyLucene

Action items for next meeting

• Ducky to write a tutorial based on Morgen's servlets.
• Ducky to write an early warning system for wiki spam.
• Ducky to convert the contributors script to a TWiki plugin.
• Mitchell to update the LicensingTopics page.
• Mitchell to put out a draft contributor license.
• Mitchell to decide if she needs to put out a separate draft contributor license specifically for PyLucene

-- DuckySherwood - 24 Nov 2004