Libre Services Forum

Project description

The Libre Services Forum at LibreService.org is the central framework and resource center for collaborative engineering development. It will provide various resources to assist organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Libre Services movement. These will include:

• Information. The Libre Services Manifesto, links to related websites, project areas currently undergoing development, etc.
• Software repository and distribution centers. A central repository and distribution point for Libre Services software. The software repository will include automated mechanisms to allow developers to access and retrieve software components in both source and binary form, and resubmit modified software back into the repository.

  LibreServices.org will be the distribution center for all FPF-sponsored Libre Services software. Other developers may also use LibreServices.org as the distribution point for their software; alternatively they may use their own website for this, or they may use LibreServices.org as a mirror repository for their own website.

• Policies and procedures. Definitions of the policies and methodologies to be used for effective and orderly collaboration.

• Communications. Automated mailing lists, discussion forums, and other facilities for communication. These will include a general interest mailing list, a mailing list oriented towards engineering development, and a mailing list oriented towards business development. These will provide a means for organizations and individuals to announce their participation in Libre Services projects, seek out partners, and coordinate cooperative effort.

Priority and schedule

The Libre Services Forum is an essential requirement for the success of this initiative. It is a top-priority mission-critical project.

A schedule for this project has not yet been established.

Project sponsor and manager

We are currently seeking sponsorship for this project.

A project manager has not yet been assigned.

Project status

All the above capabilities remain to be implemented. We have established the LibreServices.org domain, and put in some descriptive placeholder text. But all the above structures and mechanisms remain to be built.