Proposed Charter for OpenSource^WTools WG

On 16.10.2012 15:27, Peter Koch wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:33:37AM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
>> What do you do if you have open source software that does not do what
>> you want? You have a lot of options:
>>
>> * Talk to the developers, see if they want to do it
> 
> I'm old fashioned so I'll assume there are per SW mailing lists
> (add web fora, your favourite walled garden 'social' network, ...)
> already.  Would the additional benefit be the face to face opportunity?

Peter, we have thousands mailing lists about DNS and we still have two
DNS sessions twice a year. (And I am happy about it!) I don't
understand your point. It is very different to send a new feature list
into a mailing list compared to presenting new features and discussing
with users and seeing people's reaction.

> There is a MAT WG with the 'T' in its name.  What overlap can we expect
> between MAT and this proposed Open Source Tools WG?

I believe we should take the same approach as with DNS WG overlap.

			Ondrej


> 
> -Peter
> 


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