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

[Tim E. Sneddon]

BillPedersen wrote:
> Well, at present I have taken the lead on this effort to try and
> develop a dialogue with and between the HP OpenVMS Team as well as the
> OpenVMS Community.

I maintain the VMS SIG Tapes and have tried on numerous occasions
to strike up some interest of collaborating with HP in bringing
the Freeware and SIG Tapes together, or distributing the SIG Tapes,
I guess SIG CD/DVD now.  However, I have had either very little
or no response.

> 
> As such I would be happy to take suggestions and ideas from interested
> parties.
> 
> As far as the issue of Orphaned Software I see this as being something
> we need to address and work to develop a program to support these
> products/utilities.
> 

This is something I am also interested in.  That's why I set up the
MX and MMK sites.  There is even a page for The Halls Of ZK :-) You
can see it all at:

     http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Open_Source

Tim.