Category Archives: Dojo Foundaton

Transition

August 8, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Two days ago I dusted off the rarely-used voting procedure for Dojo Foundation projects in order to kick off a transition that I’m very excited about: as of this afternoon, the committers of the Dojo project have elected Peter Higgins the new Project Lead for the toolkit project. I’ve had the pleasure of working with [...]

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“Why Do I need To Sign This?”

June 11, 2008 – 3:56 am

There has been much discussion in the various Dojo fora of late regarding the need (and hassle) of requiring that all contributors send in signed Contributor License Agreements. These agreements state that: Those contributing to Dojo Foundation projects actually own what they contribute and therefore have the right to license it to someone else All [...]

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Blatantly Mis-Quoting Sublime

May 7, 2008 – 2:02 am

100 points to Freedom. Dojo, DWR, CometD, OpenRecord, and the newly accepted Psych Desktop project are all 100 for 100 on Dion’s scale because we’ve done the hard work of building a Foundation, ensuring the IP provenance of every checkin, built a community structure that gives everyone who’s significantly invested a real voice, and have [...]

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DWR Joins The Dojo Foundation, Joe Walker Joins SitePen

December 11, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Dylan has the short-and-sweet writeup of what’s happening with DWR and the Dojo Foundation and Joe Walker has a bit more Q&A. I can’t really add much to the “news” bit of the news other than to say that I’m tremendously excited about it. The DWR community has been amazingly level-headed in its deliberations, and [...]

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On Licensing

October 6, 2007 – 12:42 am

So you’re starting an OSS web project. At some point in the evolution of your project from a couple of files on-disk to something you’re maintaining on google code or sourceforge, you’re going to be asked what the project is called and what the license is. I can’t help with naming, but on the licensing [...]

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