<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well, to my surprise, I found the motivation to lead the project should you vote for me!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I dont mind leading the project, setting up the plan and coordinating the efforts. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My website is open for this naturally.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">- As I have some experience in change management (in our corp infrastructure env.)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I can also setup up a database, forums in monsieurx.com for example. Although I </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">like the discussion here in the list better. More direct! </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As far as the change process, what we've experienced with the msg is just as</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would have it. Though we could structure a bit more the email subjects to be</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">more efficient like <stackname><version><issue>, etc...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cheers</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Richard Gaskin <ambassador@fourthworld.com></b></font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Please respond to metacard</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: MC IDE's home</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Update<br>
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I asked Scott if we could have an FTP account set up for the IDE project at<br>
metacard.com. While that won't work, he suggested setting the project up at<br>
SourceForge.net. In accordance with his wishes, I'll set up the project's<br>
home there as soon as we get a copy of mctools.mc with an updated About box<br>
to reflect the new Open Source license. At this time I do not know which<br>
Open source license he'll choose.<br>
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For MC IDE Contributors<br>
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If you'd like to contribute to work on the MC IDE, set up an account at<br>
<http://sourceforge.net>. I just did it, and thankfully it's a short form<br>
with a convenient confirmation process. We may need figure out if there<br>
should be limitations of who would have access privileges to the project<br>
page, and personally I'm inclined to trust people's professionalism not to<br>
screw anything up and give access to anyone I know who wants it. Would that<br>
be appropriate?<br>
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For MC IDE Users<br>
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Scott has agreed to add a page at metacard.com at which we can provide links<br>
to the project. The URL has not been determined at this time -- should we<br>
consider using simply <http://www.metacard.com/ide>? Also, it would seem<br>
helpful if that page included links to download the latest release version,<br>
the latest test version, and to the SourceForge project page itself.<br>
Anything else that should be on that page?<br>
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Next Steps<br>
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I've acting as a sort of interim coordinator simply because some ongoing<br>
discussions of bugs and related issues with Scott made it convenient to ask<br>
him for these details to get the thing rolling. We should probably decide<br>
how and by whom changes will be made going forward.<br>
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As a starting point I'm inclined to suggest that a project leader be<br>
selected by vote and that person be responsible for changes. Any work could<br>
be done by others, but the leader would be reponsible for reviewing and<br>
posting changes.<br>
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The thread on Message Box positioning seems a good model: a change is<br>
proposed here, views heard, a summary posted and if there is no strong<br>
opposition to that summary the majority's preference would be implemented.<br>
Does that seem desirable? If not, by what other process should changes be<br>
approved?<br>
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In summary our two immediate questions are:<br>
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- Who wants to act as project leader for the next six months?<br>
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- By what process should changes be decided on?<br>
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-- <br>
Richard Gaskin <br>
Fourth World Media Corporation<br>
Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site<br>
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