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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Bill Pedersen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> A new web site with "everything" would be fine. I would consider it
> natural if HP hosted it and the "Freeware DVD" became a snapshot of
> that.

There was some talks about this at the TUD's last week.
Before one makes a separate effort in the VMS freeware area,
one should probably coordinate that with what HP VMS Eng is
doing. There isn't realy any reason to double the efforts spent
on this.