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