[Radioactive-design] A project update

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Hi everyone,=0D
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I apologize for not getting this out earlier.  I wanted to give you an upda=
te on=0D
the project from a project management stand point.  As Michael mentioned in=
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email earlier in the week, the RadioActive project has officially become a =
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for profit foundation.  As some of you who have talked with Somen or myself=
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the past 8 months you know that we believe there are many different softwar=
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applications that need to be developed as RFID and the EPC grow and mature.=
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the project was begging to gain IP we felt it necessary to have a legal ent=
ity to=0D
support it.  The Apache Foundation closely resembled our idea of what Radio=
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should be like, and we are modeling ourselves after them.  Another note is =
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Michael Mealling has officially become a member of the project, although he=
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not new to helping us.  Michael has been in contact with the RadioActive pr=
oject=0D
since day one and has probably logged more hours in the IRC channel than an=
yone=0D
to date.  Somen and I are very excited to have him on board, officially.=0D
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Currently there are three (3) projects on the go.  These are Neutrino (EPC-=
IS),=0D
Fusion (ALE, middleware) and Graviton (Hardware simulator).  Other ideas fo=
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projects we have include a hardware abstraction layer (like Hibernate, but =
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EPC related hardware) and a Commons project, which will include common comp=
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all projects can share.=0D
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For some of you who have been paying attention since we started the project=
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roughly 8 months ago it may appear that the project was dead for a while.  =
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assure you, that although there has not been any major releases, we have=0D
continued to work on the project from a research stand point, as well as tr=
ying=0D
to meet as many people in the industry that were willing to help us with ad=
vice,=0D
and potentially development resources.  All of this has continued to happen=
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our part time like many traditional open source projects, and has been quit=
e a=0D
challenge that we are finally getting a grip on.=0D
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The foundation will be overseen by a consortium of individuals and organiza=
tions.=0D
 There will be two levels of participation in the project.  One level is a=
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=93volunteer=94 and the other level is a =93member=94.  A volunteer will ge=
nerally be=0D
individuals that have an interest in the technology for personal and career=
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motives.  If you are looking for experience or trying to build your resume =
out of=0D
school, you probably fit into this category.  Members are usually organizat=
ions=0D
that have an interest in using pieces of software from the foundation and w=
ant to=0D
over see its development and have a personal stake in its growth.  This is =
just a=0D
rough outline of the structure of the Foundation.  I have been working off =
bylaws=0D
that are very similar to the Apache bylaws and should have them posted on t=
he=0D
site soon.  These will explain the structure and the roles in the foundatio=
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This is already too long.  We will keep you posted, and feel free to contac=
t us=0D
with any questions.=0D
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Thanks,=0D
Shaun=0D
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