[OPA-devel] RE: OPA, Open Source, and Partnerships - LOCATION info - RSVP!

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Oops - someone pointed out I forgot to confirm it's tomorrow, 7 Feb!

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From: Joseph Potvin=20
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:35 AM
To: 'joe...@hr...'; 'kat...@hr...';
'kar...@hr...'; 'jay...@hr...';
'ric...@hr...'; Eric Mainville; Bruce Catley; 'Mark
Faul'; 'Sarah Kerr'; Eric Mainville; 'Dav...@pc...'; Richard
Lessard; Jay Hunt; Robert MacPhail; Chad Sehn; Leah Vilhan;
'opa...@li...'; Andr=E9e Fortin; 'Kateb, Maria'
Cc: 'Peter Bojanic'; 'Russell McOrmond'; 'df...@ro...'; 'Dave
Edwards'; 'rg...@co...'
Subject: RE: OPA, Open Source, and Partnerships - LOCATION info - RSVP!

Hi all, It was a bit of a challenge to find a suitable meeting room for =
this session. It seems nearing the end of the fiscal year is a time of =
many meetings! =20

The venue will be:=20
Room 4-101
Place du Portage, Phase III, Hull (Gatineau)
4th Floor, Tower A, Sector 1 (4A1)
For those of you from outside PWGSC, please go to the Security Desk at =
the bottom of Tower A for about 9:30 am, and we'll sign you in.

This room is a little 'cozy', but this room has the needed network =
connection and projector.  Given the space considerations, it's =
important you let me know who will be attending.=20

Our presenter is Peter Bojanic of OEone =
http://oeone.com/aboutus/team.html
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=3DNews&file=3Darticle&sid=3D154
http://www.mail-archive.com/moz...@mo.../msg00034.html
Peter has had considerable experience with the SourceForge =
admininstration features through the Back-End project =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/back-end.  Thanks Peter!!

Suggested Agenda:

10:00 Roundtable Introductions about interest in OPA, and our respective =
timelines.
10:30 A tour of the Back-End project site on SourceForge under 3 roles:=20
       (a) Anyone=20
       (b) A contributing developer
       (c) A project administrator
11:30 A look at the OPA site on SourceForge =
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opa,=20
	some set-up of roles, and discussion of the "to do" list. Who is able =
to do what when?=20
12:15 I'm buying Peter's lunch if he'll stick around.  (2nd RSVP please)
      Jean Sebastien Bar Caf=E9, 49 Rue St. Jacques, Hull (a 5 minute =
walk from Place du Portage)

Anyone's suggestions to improve this agenda are welcome.

Regards,
Joseph Potvin
956-8617

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'kar...@hr...'; 'jay...@hr...';
'ric...@hr...'; Eric Mainville; Bruce Catley; 'Mark
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Maria'
Subject: RE: OPA, Open Source, and Partnerships

SourceForge Demo - 10:00 am Friday 7 February at PWGSC (Location to be =
finalized.) **RSVP**

Colleagues, In meeting with OPA colleagues Mark Faul and Sara Kerr =
yesterday at Bellanet/IDRC, we agreed it would be useful to arrange a =
demo of SourceForge.net for anyone with an interest in advancing OPA to =
Version 3.0.  This would, of course, be open to other public servants =
involved in the sharing out or adaptation of software under an open =
source business model.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opa is becoming the new location of =
the OPA project, which since 1999 has been hosted at =
http://www.bellanet.org/opa. Please note - Mark and Sara are still in =
the process of setting up the new location.  Now at SourceForge, the =
growing OPA community can benefit from full-featured roles management, =
version-management, bug-management, and communications.  You may join =
the OPA developer discussion list by sending a blank email to =
opa...@li...

The Architecture & Standards Directorate within GTIP at PWGSC currently =
has two other small applications hosted at =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleassets/ and =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpletracker/, created by Jeff Gordon.  =
For the time being our team is using the fee-free SourceForge facilities =
for open source software releases. Other Canadian Government =
organizations are hosting their open source initiatives at their own =
sites, for example: http://www.crc.ca/FreeWRL/ , =
http://www.crc.ca/en/html/scari/home/releases/releases and a Natural =
Resources Canada project that is currently orphaned at =
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~rbrook/atlas_gen/. =20

This month the Architecture and Standards Directorate has also begun a =
learning pilot using Source"Cast" https://www.pwgsc.inst.collab.net, =
which is a more feature-rich environment than Source"Forge". General =
info is available at http://www.collab.net/products.  Please note that =
this is in "kick-the-tires" learning mode, and the site does **not** =
meet "Common Look & Feel" requirements.  Your team is free to create a =
"project" and to play in our SourceCast sandbox, to assist in =
determining whether we should propose to invest what is necessary to =
adapt a full CLF-compliant environment available for any collaborative =
software projects initiated by Government of Canada, ranging from free =
open source (like those orphaned GIS tools from NRCan), through to =
secure consortia projects.

Back to the Source"Forge" session for OPAfolk... I am currently =
arranging the session for the morning of 7 February.  Details will =
follow. Meanwhile, please let me know if you wish to attend:  RSVP.  =
Feel free to forward this invitation to other individuals working with =
or for government in Canada's capital, who you think may be interested =
in learning about how to collaborate in the OPA project, and in other =
Canadian Government open source initiatives.

Regards,

Joseph (Jos=E9) Potvin
Management Team Member, Enterprise Architecture
Architecture and Standards Directorate
Government Telecommunications & Informatics Service (GTIS)
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)
11 Rue Laurier, Place du Portage, Phase III, 4th Floor (4A1)
Gatineau (Hull), Quebec K1A 0S5
(819) 956-8617 Voice
(819) 956-8621 Fax
jos...@pw....c