[IAEP] [SLOBS] non-free activities on ASLO

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 13:55:43 EDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM,  <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a growing ecosystem of non-free activities for the sugar and the
> .xo .  Is there an official policy on hosting non-free activities on
> activities.sugarlabs.org?

Out of curiosity, what is an example of a non-free Sugar activity??

-walter

> There is significant value in creating a one stop shop for sugar activities.
>  Yet, hosting non-free activities might not be the direction Sugar Labs
> should go.  One option for handling this is the
> http://marketplace.eclipse.org/
>
> I am interested in establishing a 'market-place' for sugar activities.  It
> would seem that we have three choises:
> 1. We can work to incorporate it into the existing also instance.  Limited
> firewall between commercial and non-commercial portions of the project.
> 2. We can establish a second instance of aslo called marketplace.sl.org -
> This establishes a firewall between the non-commercial and non-commercial
> parts of the project. It also leverages and builds up the Sugar name.
> 3. I, or others, can establish third party markets independent of
> activities.sl.org.
>
> I would appreciate feedback from the community and the oversight board about
> this issue.  This is no longer a theoretical issue as the two most commonly
> searched for sugar activities are _not_ on ASLO.
>
> david
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Walter Bender
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