THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
S U M M A R Y
DIARY: May 31, 2000 02:24 PM Wednesday;
Rod Welch
Received request for agenda issues on DKR meeting tomorrow at SRI.
1...Summary/Objective
2...Open Source License Rather than Persmission to Use Business Model
..............
Click here to comment!
CONTACTS
SUBJECTS
OHS/DKR Meeting at SRI 000518
Agenda Issues
0505 -
0505 - ..
0506 - Summary/Objective
0507 -
050701 - Follow up ref SDS 14 0000, ref SDS 13 0000.
050702 -
050703 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Eugene Kim asking for suggestions on
050704 - subjects for the agenda of project meetings.
050705 -
050706 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 linked to this record.
050707 -
050708 - [On 000601 agenda issues not reviewed at project meeting.
050709 - ref SDS 15 4455
050710 -
050711 - [On 000615 agenda issues set by Doug Engelbart. ref SDS 17 4455
050712 - ..
050713 - There are a lot of action items pending. Since the team is not
050714 - yet configured to work on action items, following are possible
050715 - subjects to discuss at project meetings...
050716 -
050717 - 1. Issues in the record on 000407. ref SDS 3 6554
050718 -
050719 - a. Assign team to develop a plan or statement on how project
050720 - deliverables will solve world problems. ref SDS 3 0300
050721 - ..
050722 - b. Assign team to synthesize project record developed
050723 - the past month explaining "knowledge" and "knowledge
050724 - management" into a definition that leads to project
050725 - architecture, design, development and deliverables.
050726 - ref SDS 3 2805
050727 -
050728 - [On 000601 Bill Bearden submits initial draft of glossary
050729 - that defines knowledge. ref SDS 16 0001
050730 -
050731 - c. Assign Jack and support team to explain "ontology" (see
050732 - meeting on 000518 presentation by Professor Keeler,
050733 - ref SDS 12 2812, that leads to Pandora's Box of complexity,
050734 - and how the team expects to solve the problem with the CDS,
050735 - OHS and DKR. ref SDS 3 4757
050736 -
050737 - d. Business model and licensing issues, cited by Paul Fernhout
050738 - today per below, ref SDS 0 0583, and issue 10 on 000407.
050739 - ref SDS 3 6973
050740 -
050741 - 2. Doug's trip to Washington, per issue 14 on 000407. ref SDS 3
050742 - 2975
050743 -
050744 - [On 000601 this was discussed. ref SDS 15 4877
050745 -
050746 - 3. Budget and Schedule for moving forward.
050747 -
050748 - How much money is available?
050749 -
050750 - How much do we need?
050751 -
050752 - [On 000601 this is cited as critical need. ref SDS 15 6036
050753 -
050754 - What can be accomplished within avilable means?
050755 -
050756 - What is the order of development -- what should be done first,
050757 - second, concurrent, dependencies, etc.
050758 -
050759 - Who is going to do the work and under what terms?
050760 -
050761 - 4. Scope and assignment to use knowledge management for the DKR
050762 - project, per Doug's suggestion for the project to pilot test
050763 - new capabilities. Communication Metrics...
050764 -
050765 - http://www.welchco.com
050766 -
050767 - ...supplements traditional cost and schedule control, as the
050768 - core engine of Knowledge Management requested by Eric on
050769 - 000208. ref SDS 2 4320 On 000503 Joe Williams asked if project
050770 - correspondence has been organized, indicating this would aid
050771 - project work. ref SDS 5 5456 This support has been provided
050772 - the past few months to demonstrate knowledge management, but
050773 - may not be helpful nor desired by the team.
050774 -
050775 - 5. Assignments to review CDS requirements v0.6 and provide support
050776 - for Eric in this work, per analysis on 000505, ref SDS 6 0001,
050777 - submitted to the team on 000515. ref SDS 10 0001
050778 -
050779 - Who will decide additions and corrections to v0.6?
050780 -
050781 - How will the problem be solved that the system will "boggle the
050782 - mind." ref SDS 6 4524
050783 -
050784 - 6. Assignments to perform other two elements of DKR architecture:
050785 - vision and marketing assessment, per Jack Park on 000426.
050786 - ref SDS 4 0304
050787 -
050788 - 7. Explanation of how CDS requirements will improve software
050789 - development, lead to OHS and DKR, and eventually solve world
050790 - problems.
050791 -
050792 - 8. Progress on assignments made during the meeting on 000525, per
050793 - Lee's notes received yesterday. ref SDS 14 3596
050794 -
050795 - How will Zope, Python, SlashDot, etc., help generate and manage
050796 - knowledge, as distinct from data and information?
050797 -
050798 -
050799 -
050800 -
050801 -
0509 -
SUBJECTS
License Open Source
Proposal on License
Participation Rights of Contributors
Augment/NLS, 000124
0907 -
090701 - ..
090702 - Open Source License Rather than Persmission to Use Business Model
090703 -
090704 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0784, ref SDS 8 0784.
090705 -
090706 - Received ref DRT 2 0001 from Paul Fernhout responding to Eugene's
090707 - letter, ref DRT 1 0001, asking for ideas on agenda issues to discuss
090708 - at project meetings.
090709 -
090710 - He again advocates adopting an open source license based on
090711 - information at the following website....
090712 -
090713 -
090714 - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
090715 -
090716 -
090717 - ...and code submission guidelines and agreements to replace
090718 - "permission to use", and argues that this commitment would be required
090719 - to be on SourceForge. ref DRT 2 6417
090720 -
090721 - Suggests Python as model. ref DRT 2 5292
090722 -
090722 - ..
090722 -
090723 - Paul wants to review Augment, and so proposes that as much of the code
090724 - as is available and legally possible be made available. ref DRT 2 2860
090725 -
090726 - This aligns with suggestion on 000124 by Benay Dara-Abrams for the
090727 - Colloquium team to use Augment NLS. ref SDS 1 0738
090728 -
090729 - [On 000622 Eric Armstrong reported on reviewing a video tape
090730 - showing use of Augment. ref SDS 18 9626
090731 -
090732 -
090733 -
090734 -
090735 -
090736 -
090737 -
090738 -
0908 -