Proposed Charter for OpenSource WG

On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Ondrej Filip <ondrej.filip at NIC.CZ> wrote:

> We do want to limit the coverage on projects related and of interest
> to the RIPE community. Example of Open Source projects which we
> believe are a good fit for the group are Routing products like Bird,
> Quagga, OpenBGPd, XORP and other projects relevant to the community
> like DHCP, Network Management tools like RRDtool, Ntop or Nagios.


I have two questions:

1. Are you consciously not mentioning DNS software? Do you expect DNS Open Source discussions to remain in the DNS WG? I think clarity is needed to avoid duplication.

2. There might be vendors that do not provide open-source but do have a genuine interest in understanding the needs of the community and would like to work with the community; are those welcome? There are probably also Open Source developers that need to run a business and use this as a marketing event. I understand you wouldn't want that (at least I don't) but how can you make the distinction? A paragraph about what this WG should not be might clarify.

In general I like the idea.

--Olaf 




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