# Ruby.NET moves to full open source community model **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 13, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-moves-to-full-open-source-community-model/109299 "2007-07-13T08:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wayne_K)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-moves-to-full-open-source-community-model/109299/1 "2007-07-13T08:44:16Z")
The Gardens Point [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) project ([http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET](http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET)) would like to announce that we are moving to a new open source community model. While we at QUT will continue to be heavily involved in the project, we plan to transfer full control and ownership of the project to the open source community. To signify this new beginning, the new project will be named simply “[Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET)” (rather than “Gardens Point [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET)”) and a new licence agreement will be developed (by the community). A source code repository will be created external to QUT that will be directly assessable to developers in the community to make contributions. It has been suggested that we could host our source code repository and mailing lists at RubyForge. As I am inexperienced at managing this kind of open source project I need your help and advice. If you are interested in either discussing how we transition to this new model, or in contributing to our code base, please send an email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid and I will add you to an interim core-development mailing list. Cheers, Wayne. (for the [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) team) * * * Dr Wayne K. Senior Lecturer Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid School of Software Engineering and DC Phone: +61 7 3864 9336 Faculty of Information Technology Fax: +61 7 3864 9390 Queensland University of Technology ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wayne_K)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-moves-to-full-open-source-community-model/109299/2 "2007-07-13T15:22:32Z")
Kudos for the initiative ! Yes, [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) seems to be the a good place at least for distribution, to get started with. Still it’s possible a project this size requires some other facilities I’m not sure whether rubyforge is able to accomodate. The man to inquiry there is of course the great Tom C., longtime rubyforge sysadmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Also, it’s possible you could use the readily available infrastructure at [ruby-lang.org](http://ruby-lang.org). The JRuby guys found a home at [codehaus.org](http://codehaus.org) but that makes sense for them because that’s a mainly java-focused community, or community cluster. It’s possible there’s something alike out there for .NET projects. I guess it all depends on whether you want to create a new community from scratch, or you want to take advantage of a readily available infrastructure/community On the licence topic, my hunch says most ruby developers would want it to be the Ruby licence, if possible, but I’ve read Matz expressing he wishes on hindsight he had chosen the BSD licence for Ruby ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@Wayne\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wayne_K)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-moves-to-full-open-source-community-model/109299/3 "2007-07-18T22:55:39Z")
Wayne K. wrote: > The Gardens Point [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) project ([http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET](http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET)) would like to announce that we are moving to a new open source community model. I think this is the best news I’ve heard in a month. Next tell me that they will test it all with Mono as well as .NET… Cheers, Hal