Re: Discussion About Community Contributions to NetBeans

Hello Jiří,

The other projects (OpenJDK, and GlassFish specifically) have been asking
for a better process to submit OCAs as well. So I do believe that there is
enough interest to move the discussion forward. Anything that lowers the
barriers to entry on any open source project is a good thing.

Thanks for the follow-up and I hope the discussion bears some fruit for all
the projects.

John

2011/10/21 Jiří Kovalský <[email protected]>

> Hello Daniel,
>
>   thanks for your suggestion. I agree that submitting OCAs electronically
> would be an ideal solution. Having said that I will talk about it with Luke
> Kowalski who has been coordinating unification process for OCAs on the
> corporate level. Unfortunately, such a change would have to be feasible and
> beneficial for all other open source projects Oracle is sponsoring like
> OpenJDK, GlassFish, MySQL etc. and NetBeans is very special in this regard,
> because we receive way more OCAs than any other project.
>
>   Luckily, Luke is coming to Prague next week and I have a 1:1 with him
> scheduled on Wednesday so I will surely discuss this topic with him. I
> believe that 4 supporters within just a few hours means something. I promise
> to inform you about his standpoint. We can agree on next steps then.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jiří Kovalský
> NetBeans Community Manager
> http://www.netbeans.org
>
> Dne 21.10.2011 03:54, Daniel Bell napsal(a):
>
>  Thanks for the feedback Guys. Any ideas on the best way to suggest this
>> to Oracle? Is this mailing list for that sort of thing, or is there
>> something else?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 21 October 2011 12:46, Tushar Joshi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>    On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:23 AM, John Yeary <[email protected] >
>>    wrote:
>>
>>        I would agree with Daniel and Tom. These agreements are very
>>        dated in the electronic era. We should be using an electronic
>>        document like a pdf which can be signed.
>>
>>    I agree that the process should be updated.  Recently I went through
>>    a contract signing process which involved EcoSign, which was said to
>>    be legally equivalent to paper signed contract but completely
>>    electronic.  Something like this can/may also be used.
>>
>>    --
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>>         Tushar
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