[OSGeoLive] Contributor list Transifex and ML announcements review and policies

[Angelos Tzotsos]

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Angelos

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:04 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
>
> There are a number of points here:
>
> 1. One of the OSGeo incubation criteria is that we ensure that all
> contributions to OSGeo are available via our Open Licenses. We achieve that
> by ensuring that every person who contributes to OSGeo writes a public
> statement saying they agree with our open license, as per:
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Source_code
>
> If we are to comply with our OSGeo Incubation obligations, then we will
> need to extend this to Translations.
>
> How can we ensure that anyone contributing to Transifex is ok with our
> open license? Can we get them to send the same email before we give them
> access? (I think we are ok if people use an alias or git id instead of
> their real name. One of our contributors is called wildintellect, and I
> don't know what his/her real name is).
>
> The importance of ensuring license compliance is because lack of license
> compliance can become a barrier to entry for corporations who are scared of
> being sued if they use Open Source.
>
> 2. If someone contributes to our project, it is the right thing for us to
> acknowledge them.
>
> 3. A good measure of OSGeoLive's success is to quote the number of people
> who have contributed. Ie, it is good for us to track number of contributors.
>
> So I suggest:
> * Update to note that to contribute, we will be expecting to have your
> permission if we are to use your translations. You can see email
> conversation last time we were retrospectively chasing down agreements from
> people for their Open Source contributions here:
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeolive/2011-July/thread.html . In
> particular:
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeolive/2011-July/003686.html
>
> * We could be creative in the way that we confirm commitment to Open
> licenses.
>
> ** Maybe insert a prominent statement in our translation page (ideally
> next to the [submit] button) saying "by submitting are are agreeing to make
> your content available via our open license policy" and link to our open
> policy page.
>
> ** Request people add their name to our list of contributors page (not
> sure how we do that, but we can work out details later)
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 15/9/18 3:25 am, Vicky Vergara wrote:
>
> Thanks for moving the discussion to the OSGeoLive mailing list.
> Regards
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:33 AM Nicolas Roelandt <roelandtn.pro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I asked for a review of an announcement [1] for our contributors and
>> translators regarding the new European General Data Protection Regulation
>> (GDPR) [2].
>>
>> It was not straightforward as I thought and it became a debate.
>>
>> My mistake was not to publish the link to the draft here, as I wanted to
>> avoid mails here about "Fix that, add this, ..."
>>
>> I was wrong, so please next time, tell me to bring it to the public
>> mailing list.
>>
>> The debate is not settled and was already bring it there. We just
>> released 12.0 so I think we can discuss it now and have clear policies.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> [1] https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/osgeolive_contributor_consent_message
>> [2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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