Date
Attendees
- Jim Blake
- Paul Friedman
- Keith Maul
Absent: Chris Barnes
Agenda and goals
discuss charter
identify ideas/topics to pursue
determine workflow for preparing recommendations
- schedule next meeting
Notes
Created a Google Drive folder to hold task force documents.
Discussion covered:
- place for finding collaborators, what exists, and where interests lie
- question of maintenance, who will test for new releases or update
contributed app’s code?
- based on past involvement in a number of open sourced projects,
success/popularity is rare, more likely to be a few people involved,
often the creator doesn’t want to be the gatekeeper for good
- what do we do when the maintainer is no longer interested in the
app/tool created?
- would a Github organization that forks community repos work? Not
safe to assume everything is on Github.
- discussed current catalog of Apps & Tools. Need to better organize
and keep up to date. Should we contact each of the maintainers?
- we need broad categories of problems/solutions for supporting 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
