Coding, Licenses, and Websites oh my

[Dan Schultz]

Hi Everyone,

  The giant major event at the media lab has come to a close so I can do things that aren't, you know, running around for two weeks trying to churn out demos.  This means Meta Meta Project!

A few points of order:

  1) Now that some time has passed I want to get a sense of who is still interested in actually hacking on this.  Right now what we need most isn't big picture architecture modification but is as simple as implementing some of the single-document meta extraction algorithms.  I attempted to start on keyword extractions last week and then got sucked away.

  I'm starting off granting Github write access to T, Raynor, and Laurian.  If any of you three aren't as pumped about this project anymore, or if anyone isn't on that list who thinks they should be, please email me.

  2) I talked to Gunner about open source projects and he gave a few great suggestions.  In particular he suggested that we start with a more restrictive license than MIT because we can always change it to MIT later (but can never change it back once it is MIT). Since this is young why don't we start it off with GPLv2?

  3) Web site.  I have the domains and I have a server good enough to host it for free while we get up and running.  Are any of the designers around here still willing to work with me to put together a basic site for meta?  Trina are you still interested in joining this effort?

Best,

 Dan

 - Dan

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[Matthew Terenzio]

I'm here to help in whatever capacity I can.

[Mark]

I'm still interested - especially in the media side of meta.

As far as websites go you could start with http://pages.github.com/ but I completely understand if you want to put in on a separate domain / host.

Could call with the license I think.

Cheers

Mark

[Raynor Vliegendhart]

GitHub supports custom domains, so you can setup your DNS such that metametaproject.org = <githubusername>.github.com.

 

About the licensing, I have no clear preference. I've put LikeLines under an MIT license, but that shouldn't pose a problem (you can include MIT code in a GPL codebase, but not the other way around).

 

-Raynor

[Neil Dawson]

I'll help with the website