[TOS] Guidelines on launching an open source project?

[pawlicki at cs.rochester.edu]

   I been asked to help take a fairly extensive body of code and
release it as an open source project.

I'm wondering if someone can point me to some resources that
might guide us along this process?

 My collaborators have a body of code used for physics simulation.
It's all under Mercurial for internal management. They want to
distribute it under an open source model, while maintaining control
of the "official" version.

  Any pointers, guidelines, or advice would be appreciated.

T. F. Pawlicki
Dept. Computer Science
University of Rochester