[beyond-licensing] next steps for Beyond Licensing?

[Luis Villa]

I've got no objection to that, but I admit I'm not optimistic - taking a
quick skim through the archives, it definitely seems like we did not limit
ourselves to legal topics at the beginning, so I doubt a rename addresses
the core problem of interest/time.

Luis

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:13 PM Tony Wasserman <tonyw at opensource.org> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I'd like to see OSI be a leader in setting the agenda on key issues
> related to open source. Our lack of activity has effectively ceded that
> leadership role to others.
>
> So I agree that we need a reset of some sort if we want to have a voice
> on these topics. To me, one problem is the choice of the phrase "beyond
> licensing" as the name for the group, since that suggests a focus on
> legal issues, even if that wasn't the intention of the group's founders.
> Another problem is that key members of this group are extremely busy,
> and simply don't have the cycles to work on yet another group.
>
> I would propose retiring this working group, creating a new one with a
> name like "future directions in open source", jointly develop a list of
> topics, and then see who is interested in working on them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
> ====================
>
> On 11/29/17 10:50 AM, Allison Randal wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The Beyond Licensing Working Group was chartered for an initial year,
> > with a note that we'd "evaluate next steps for the group after 12
> > months". The year has passed, and the group hasn't been very active
> > lately, what would you all like to do? The simplest option is to retire
> > the working group, but we could also refresh with specific plans for
> > another year of work.
> >
> > (The board is doing an overall review of active/inactive working groups
> > today, so this is just general housekeeping.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Allison
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