2007 AGM
The 2007 AGM will take place at after the event on Monday 14th May.
The location is BCS London office, First Floor, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street WC2E 7HA.
All members welcome.
Agenda to follow.
mikendall
Minutes of Committee Meeting 4
Held at Bournemouth University on 31st Jan 2007 between 17:30 and 19:00.
First meeting about the BCS Licence
The first meeting concerning the BCS Licence took place on 8th September.
We covered alot of ground and have the nucleus of a proposal for the BCS.
The Meeting Minutes and diagrams are now available.
Comments would be very useful.
Regards,
Malcolm
6th September 2006 – Joint event with BCS SPA
To celebrate BCS SPA SG’s two hundredth meeting, Stefanos Zachariadis will present an “Introduction to the SATIN mobile applications framework”. This project is released under LGPL.
Register online on the SPA Wiki or please email your name to the event coordinator to book a place. You must register for security purposes. (SPA website was down over August but now live)
Meeting Flyer (warning Adobe pdf)
Free sandwiches and refreshments are served from 6pm!
Malcolm Kendall 31st August 2006
BCS OS Licence 15
I was looking at the state of OS Licences (IANAL)
and concluded that it would be useful to the
OS community if the BCS itself operated an OS Licence.
If it good enough for the The Regents of the University of California,
then why not for the BCS itself?
Advantages:
1) Open Source licencing has matured. The principles and pitfalls
are better understood. The BCS can offer a good licence.
2) The BCS can offer protection from a perceived problem with
current licences – the ability to transfer copyright and then
revoke the openness (Estoppel not withstanding).
3) The BCS would be an ideal home for the copyright for national UK
OS projects e.g. Health, Local Government, Defence, Transport.
Disadvantages:
1) The BCS charter may prevent it.
2) The BCS board may not like it.
Both disadvantages are not immutable, though they may take time to resolve.
Malcolm Kendall