Re: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

David W. Van Couvering wrote:
> Dan, you make excellent points.  Andrew and Jean also give excellent
> points, but for some reason I am excited by your points, while Andrew
> and Jean's points make me feel somewhat sad and dutiful :)

What makes you feel sad and dutiful?

I don't understand how Derby's participation and the projects that would
be embarked upon would differ whether Derby is at the top level or
within the ASF.

Since the ASF has already initialized a spot at code.google.com/soc ,
and since you have energy, I bet the ASF organizers would be absolutely
delighted for you to dive in and help coordinate.

> I will hold off doing anything until we get this resolved.  I personally
> agree that this is Google's decision.

I think the Derby project should be able to have a say in this.

> Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
>> David W. Van Couvering wrote:
...
>>> But I totally it would look bad and unfair for us to be at the
>>> top and nobody else from ASF.  So I'll work on this.
>>
>> Not sure what's bad or unfair about it, the Derby project was just more
>> pro-active (through David VC) in dealing with Google.
>>
>> Dan.
>>

I don't think there's anything "bad" or "unfair" about Derby being at
the top level. I just think it looks odd -- it makes Derby look somehow
isolated from the ASF instead of part of the community.

 -jean