[TOS] Need volunteers - Project cataloguing - Re: Greetings, and a modest proposal.

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Silly me, the page is already there:

http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSS_Directory_Project

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Leslie Hawthorn <mebelh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think starting a wiki page would be useful. If you get one started, I
> will add some information I know about projects that have participated in
> Summer of Code.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I'm in too. How do we start off? At an initial level, a page on the wiki?
>> IMHO, of ohloh.net does stands out in organizing/cataloging the
>> different open source projects out there. It might be useful.
>>
>> 2009/3/17 Leslie Hawthorn <mebelh at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 12:53 +0000, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> >> > > It might be useful to maintain a list of successful open source
>> >> > > projects
>> >> > > that started life as university research projects.  I'm sure there
>> are
>> >> > > a
>> >> > > good number, and consulting these professors to help figure out
>> "the
>> >> > > tenure problem" might be worthwhile.
>> >> ...
>> >> > Leadership also welcome. I'm happy to take the leadership role on the
>> >> > software catalogues since we already made a good start on this (the
>> >> > governance model is meritocratic, I don't see myself as a Benevolent
>> >> > Dictator, but right now it's just me and a few interested parties)
>> >>
>> >> Ok, Ross has volunteered to run with this (thank you!). Who else is
>> >> interested?
>> >
>> > I'm in.
>> > Cheers,
>> > LH
>> >
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