Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Universal Profile And Networking: GEogra - savannah.gnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

> Harel B <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Universal Profile And Networking: GEogra
> System name: upangea
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
> NAME: uPangea: Universal Profile And Networking: GEography and Affinity
> 
> COMMENT: No code exists at this time.
> 
> URL to description http://economicdemocracy.org/upangea.html
> 
> Brief technical description ~20 lines:
> 
> uPANGEA will create a) a generalized extensible protocol for
> personal profiles and b) tools such as a profile editor and ways of
> storing and distributing these profiles. More details are at the
> above URL. Specific applications of this general, powerful software
> would include (but not be limited to) the following: i) making
> centralized-database lists for personal ads (or for frienster, or
> for meetup.com) obsolete as the process of registration, cration of
> new caterogies and new data fields, etc, become democratized, as
> well as Free Software. ii) A owerful community, civic, and activism
> organizing tool for finding like-minded people in one's zip code, or
> by any other field (geography being one data field) In the US for
> example, you could search within your zip+5 (perhaps even your
> apartment building) for anyone else interested in chess, vegetarian
> potlucks, or labor (or even tenants) organizing. iii) In the long
> term, the generalizability and extensibility of uPANGEA would allow
> for creating new applications we cannot imagine today. One
> futuristic application which could be PANGEA linked to GPS and
> world-wide maps as you plan a long-distance trip in an Electric
> Vehicle (EV). Searching your map route through the global uPANGEA
> profile database for people who allow you to plug-in our car,
> near/along your travel route, the EV's limited range (and
> nsufficient public recharge stations) is circumvented.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> 
> 
> Other Comments:

> I mentioned this project idea to Richard Stallman and on at, 15 Nov
> 2003 22:59:40 -0500 he wrote, "It is a good idea.  I would not mind
> lending my voice to encourage people to help, but I can't take the
> lead.  Do you want to?"

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:03:56 -0500 after some back and forth (and
> his generously helping me think about data types) he wrote "You can
> start a project on savannah.gnu.org, and we can point people at it,
> suggesting they could help." I'd been swamped but am now ready to
> create the page and hopefully find programmers (I am familiar with
> linux/FSF but am not a programmer) interested in helping. I'm also
> involved with Znet and other progressive communities and hope to
> become (or uPANGEA to become) a bridge between progressives and GNU
> activists. The two overlap of course but too often I find myself
> needing to explain to folks on, e.g., Znet, what linux let alone
> Free Software even is..! :o)


I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailled information about the approval.

However, "Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system that we
like to refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize the ideals of the Free
Software movement.

Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS to GNU/Linux?

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html


Incidentally, you may want to use the Savannah "Contributor Wanted"
facility.


Last, we have approved your project as a non-GNU project. If you want,
I can forward a request to address@hidden to ask for an
evaluation of your project for inclusion in GNU.
See http://www.gnu.org/evaluation/evaluation.html for details.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain