[Communicator-user] Proposal for open source Communicator software workshop

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@li...>]

All -

At the September PI meeting, I raised the possibility of having a
workshop on open source Communicator software. Both CSLR and CMU
expressed immediate interest, and we've been corresponding about a
possible plan. Here's what we have so far:

Participants
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Our initial idea would be to open this workshop to anyone who has
released Communicator-compliant open source software or intends to in
the near future. If there's sufficient additional interest from people
who are interested in CONSUMING such software, we can reevaluate this
restriction. 

Dates
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Mid-January seems to be the most likely time. CMU proposes January
12. 

Duration
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We believe no more than a day would be needed. However, if there are
related issues which might be appropriate to discuss, we're open to
having a longer workshop (or a companion workshop on an adjacent
day). 

Location
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CMU has volunteered to host (thanks, Kevin Lenzo).

Agenda
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At the moment, we have only seeds of ideas:

- Status of end-to-end open source Communicator system(s), including
  discussion of missing capabilities
- Discussion of different open source licensing options
- Discussion of "lessons learned" in licensing
- Review of message standardization efforts (possibly)

We're eager for more ideas.

Schedule
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If you're interested, please send email to me at sa...@mi... with
number of possible attendees, additional agenda items, whether you're
interested in actually giving a talk about any of the agenda items,
and possible problems with dates. In order to allow time to plan, I'd
like to collect all the inputs by COB Friday, November 10 (two weeks
from tomorrow). At that point, we can assess how to proceed.

Thanks for your attention -
Sam Bayer
The MITRE Corporation
sa...@mi...