---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Bywater <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM Subject: [Autonomo.us] KForge Club: Call for Participation (Feb 2010) To: "[email protected]"@mail.identi.ca Dear All, KFORGE CLUB: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION An invitation to join KForge Club. JOIN HERE You can join KForge Club here: http://appropriatesoftware.net/kforgeclub/JoinHere.html Joining KForge Club is free of charge. KForge Club members are simply involved in a safe, transparent, and regular process of sharing common costs. Joining implies no commitment whatsoever (you can say 'No' later). Members are invited to submit new proposals, and to comment on proposals submitted by others. A prospectus of such proposals is published, and shares of the costs are discussed with those showing interest. A call for agreement is made. Proposals that achieve consensus are actioned, and reported upon at regular intervals. BACKGROUND KForge is a stable, open-source, enterprise application for project hosting. KForge provisions project services on-demand, and controls access with a robust, role-based, single sign-on access controller. Project services include: * Version control systems (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Subversion) * Project framework with mechanisms to plan and track work (e.g. Trac) * Wikis and mailing lists (e.g. MoinMoin, Mailman) * Content management systems and blogs (e.g. Joomla, Wordpress) KForge also provides a complete web interface for administration of project members and services, as well as a fully-developed plugin system so that new kinds of services can be added easily. KFORGE CLUB It is clear that there are common project hosting needs across most organisations. For the last 4 years, the goals and the resources for KForge development have been provided solely by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Appropriate Software Foundation. KForge Club is a way to share the cost of developing project hosting capabilities, so that every project can benefit from well-supported, high-quality, open-source, project hosting architecture. In order to sustain the development of KForge, we are seeking to share the objectives and costs of KForge development with others. We would like to emphasize that KForge will, of course, remain open-source software. You can find out more about KForge Club here: http://appropriatesoftware.net/kforgeclub/ServiceDesk.html SCHEDULE 01 February 2010 - Call for Participation 15 February 2010 - Call for Proposals 15 March 2010 - Publish Prospectus 12 April 2010 - Call for Agreement 30 April 2010 - Celebrate Success ABOUT US KForge Club is hosted by John Bywater (Appropriate Software Foundation) and Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation). The Appropriate Software Foundation is a service-oriented software and organisation development consultancy, dedicated to creating and providing open-source software services that enable small organisations to accomplish their objects. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens