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

[Rob]

On Sep 29, 11:02 pm, "Bill Pedersen" <peder... at ccsscorp.com> 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.
>
> Bill.

As I've already said to Bill, I still think Sourceforge is the best
place for this. They already have all the tools necessary to make this
happen, have the momentum from the OpenSource community to make it
viable, doesn;t cost anything, etc, etc.

I'm sure the VMS community is large enough that we could enter
discussions on a VMS-centric specific part of their site.

The problem isn't a technical one anyway. It's getting authors to look
after their software and respond to problems. I now have 5 pieces of
VMS OpenSource software that I can no longer run and get practically
no response from the authors on. Not a good advert for our cause.

Rob.