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I agree with Bjorn. The research and education
streams are largely vestigial at this point. I think it would help the
community better understand the Technology Project if the scope was reduced to
focus exclusively on incubation. If a community interest around education does
re-emerge and a project is necessary to organize the effort, then such a
project could incubate under Technology and become a top-level project if it
makes it.
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original intent of the “research” stream was nothing like what we
currently call an incubator. This was conceived of by Dr. Brian Barry and the
notion was that we would host pure academic research projects at Eclipse. I agree that that was the original intent, but once we
decided that all projects had to conform to the IP Policy, even in incubation,
we effectively killed that stream. As a result, academic projects find no
benefit and lots of pain to being part of Eclipse and thus no longer come to
Eclipse. If we really want an academic/research stream, then we need a
different IP Policy for them. Actually, I
don’t agree that we have “…never done any of
that…”. The ECESIS project was around for quite a while. And there
is a project proposal floating around right now that is interested in getting
into learning materials. Yep, and ECESIS did not accomplish anything. So,
um, I rest my case :-| Those are actually
quite specialized skills. If we could create a community of people interested
in providing materials for Eclipse projects, that would be a good thing IMHO. I agree, but I don't
think we need a project to do that much the same way that the community of
translators are not committers on -- |
