[Info-vax] Looking to find a way to pull all the Open Source / Freeware folks together

[Bill Pedersen]

Over the past few months I have been working on developing momentum within
the OpenVMS Community.  As a part of this process I have decided the first
item to look to accomplish is to get focus on Open Source and Freeware
within the Community.

As an example is Steven Schweda's recent quest for MMK sources.  Thanks to
Ian for pointing out that it is at least currently linked to by the Kednos
site.

I would like to think we can put more consistancy and effort into making
central site of links and descriptions as well as some mechanism of
information exchange.  I really have no axe to grind on how this is done but
it seems like we have so much out there and there is no longer any single
good resource for finding the information.

I would also like to think that placing a focus on Open Source and Freeware
will help with the establishment of better communication between developers
and maintainers and users so that we have the critical mass necessary to
make sure we can work to establish some form of best practices or guidelines
(As JF Mezei was recently seeking) so as to promote additional Open Source
Projects targetted at OpenVMS.

I look forward to suggestions and participation from the members of
comp.os.vms.

Bill.