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- Introduced and discussed software on the mailing list
- Interested partie are invited to register and take part to the discussion
- We will limit the studies to one week few weeks in duration (no testing)
- We will attempt to categorize the software
- Check functionalities
- Check open specifications implementation
- Check for certification
- Approval by vote of the group members
- Publish a note for each software in the public directory
- Announce the publication on the maling list
- Online comments and ratings
- Allow WG members to add comments and ratings to each software note
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- Vote to accept this work
- Setup a wiki space for this task
- Define the categories and existing open specifications and certifications
- Make a non-exhaustive list candidate software
- Setup the directory on the wiki (template for notes, functions to add comments and ratings...)
- Advertise the beginning of the effort; recruit participants
- Begin the survey: Objective 1-2 products per month
Task II. Open source general knowledge survey
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- Publish news of the OSSIWG
- Provide general explanations and pointers on the main references of opensource (openb open source licence directories, etc.)
- Periodic highlights from articles about open source (Blog?)
- Move toward a webzine, with a reviewing committee that publishes works related to open source software, with special issues (e.g. a new tech, green IT, etc.)
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