[Treebase-users] Welcome

[Hilmar L. <hl...@du...>]

Welcome to this mailing list - being neither a TreeBASE developers,  
nor really a TreeBASE user, nor one of the brains behind it, I feel  
somewhat odd to be making this first post, but nonetheless and for  
future records, on behalf of the TreeBASE project I'd like to warmly  
welcome everyone to this list who is here now or joins in the future.

To my knowledge for the first time, the TreeBASE code base is moving  
to a public source code repository, for now hosted at SourceForge,  
where everyone can look at the code, reuse it, and help in fixing its  
problems or adding new features. The TreeBASE development will be  
discussed on this public mailing list, where everyone can weigh in,  
contribute ideas, and cheer on the developers.

So while there isn't much here yet just now aside from three mailing  
lists, this prospect is very exciting to me and I'm hoping that  
before long TreeBASE will be regarded as a promising model for  
developing community database resources in a transparent,  
sustainable, and inclusive fashion that ensures the best value for  
the community.

Cheers,

	-hilmar

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