[SeasonOfDocs] TheGoodDocsProject: Kickstarting house keeping tasks

Riona Macnamara rionam at google.com
Mon Jul 1 07:27:57 PDT 2019


What about gooddocsproject.*dev*? It makes it more engineering-focused?


On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:52 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Now TheGoodDocsProject is gaining momentum, we should start bootstrapping
> core open source organisational tasks.
>
> Things to agree upon:
> 1. How will we make decisions? I propose to set up a Project Steering
> Committee (PSC), and base our processes upon best practices. Let's start
> from here: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/OSGeoLive%20PSC (We can
> revisit this later).
>
> 2. We will need to decide whether we create a new project or join an
> existing one. (PSC to decide).
>
> 3. We need to agree on a name. Googleing "gooddocs" I found:
> https://www.gooddocs.net/ . Are we ok with potential clash? Should we
> pick another name?
>
> 4. We should select a license that the material is created under. I think
> that we want a very permissive license for templates, so they can be used
> as widely as possible. Maybe:
> https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/
>
> 5. We should agree on source location, email list, slack channel (Felicity
> has made a start here).
>
> And probably a few more things.
>
> It is ~ 10 years since I set up a project from scratch, so while I
> understand the process, I'm a bit out of touch with the latest tools.
> Suggestions would be welcomed, and we can touch on this in our online
> meeting tomorrow.
>
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