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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org> on 2013/09/12 17:58:56 UTC
Mentioning contributions to Apache projects on university homepage
Hello,
I have recently become a committer on the Apache UIMA project, working on the Apache uimaFIT sub-project. This work is being supported by my employer, which is the university group - the UKP Lab - I'm working with. My contributions to uimaFIT are part of a general move of making our software open source and contributing to community projects. Would there be any objections against advertising this fact on our groups homepage? In particular, we have a "software" section where we would consider mentioning something like
"""
Current (and past) members of our group have contributed to the following community projects:
- Apache UIMA™
- Apache uimaFIT™
- jweb1t
- …
""" (listing several Apache and non-Apache projects).
Is this a valid approach? Or should understatement be preserved and such "advertisements" not be made?
Cheers,
-- Richard
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Re: Mentioning contributions to Apache projects on university homepage
Posted by Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>.
Thank you for your feedback, Shane. We also include links to the projects.
And thanks for the link!
-- Richard
On 12.09.2013, at 18:41, Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
> If you are talking about webpages for your employer or university, then factual statements like you quote below are perfectly fine. When we say "Community over Code", it's important: factual recognition of the individuals working on Apache projects is appropriate and often helpful, to show the larger world that people from various organizations contribute to Apache projects.
>
> It's often polite to include a link to the project when it's mentioned, but not strictly required.
>
> The only area to caution other readers about is making statements like "our employees lead these projects", or "we employ all the committers on...". Statements like that often discourage other organizations and individuals from considering contributing to the project. (Note: I'm not at all suggesting that's the case here; I think your wording is great - I'm more focused on noting it for the public archive 8-)
>
> Thanks for the contributions!
>
> For some background on how Apache projects work independently from outside organizations, you might want to also share this:
>
> http://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html
>
> - Shane
>
>
> On 9/12/13 11:58 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have recently become a committer on the Apache UIMA project, working on the Apache uimaFIT sub-project. This work is being supported by my employer, which is the university group - the UKP Lab - I'm working with. My contributions to uimaFIT are part of a general move of making our software open source and contributing to community projects. Would there be any objections against advertising this fact on our groups homepage? In particular, we have a "software" section where we would consider mentioning something like
>>
>> """
>> Current (and past) members of our group have contributed to the following community projects:
>> - Apache UIMA™
>> - Apache uimaFIT™
>> - jweb1t
>> - …
>> """ (listing several Apache and non-Apache projects).
>>
>> Is this a valid approach? Or should understatement be preserved and such "advertisements" not be made?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Richard
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Re: Mentioning contributions to Apache projects on university homepage
Posted by Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>.
If you are talking about webpages for your employer or university, then
factual statements like you quote below are perfectly fine. When we say
"Community over Code", it's important: factual recognition of the
individuals working on Apache projects is appropriate and often helpful,
to show the larger world that people from various organizations
contribute to Apache projects.
It's often polite to include a link to the project when it's mentioned,
but not strictly required.
The only area to caution other readers about is making statements like
"our employees lead these projects", or "we employ all the committers
on...". Statements like that often discourage other organizations and
individuals from considering contributing to the project. (Note: I'm
not at all suggesting that's the case here; I think your wording is
great - I'm more focused on noting it for the public archive 8-)
Thanks for the contributions!
For some background on how Apache projects work independently from
outside organizations, you might want to also share this:
http://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html
- Shane
On 9/12/13 11:58 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently become a committer on the Apache UIMA project, working on the Apache uimaFIT sub-project. This work is being supported by my employer, which is the university group - the UKP Lab - I'm working with. My contributions to uimaFIT are part of a general move of making our software open source and contributing to community projects. Would there be any objections against advertising this fact on our groups homepage? In particular, we have a "software" section where we would consider mentioning something like
>
> """
> Current (and past) members of our group have contributed to the following community projects:
> - Apache UIMA™
> - Apache uimaFIT™
> - jweb1t
> - …
> """ (listing several Apache and non-Apache projects).
>
> Is this a valid approach? Or should understatement be preserved and such "advertisements" not be made?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard
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