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Created a Google Drive folder to hold task force documents.
Discussion covered:-
- place for finding collaborators, what exists, and where interests lie
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- question of maintenance, who will test for new releases or
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- update contributed app’s code?
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- based on past involvement in a number of open sourced projects,
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- success/popularity is rare, more likely to be a few people involved,
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- often the creator doesn’t want to be the gatekeeper for good
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- what do we do when the maintainer is no longer interested in
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- the app/tool created?
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- would a Github organization that forks community repos work?
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- Not safe to assume everything is on Github.
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- discussed current catalog of Apps & Tools. Need to better
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- organize and keep up to date. Should we contact each of the maintainers?
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- we need broad categories of problems/solutions for supporting
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- tools e.g: visualization, search, client side tools,
- leave room for emerging areas that haven’t been explored much
Action items
- Ted will review the current list of apps & tools and determine who needs to be contacted about the status of projects
- Will start a document for drafting recommendations
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