[Chapter-delegates] open license? (Re: Membership System)

[ReindeR Rustema]

As a follow-up to what at 15:29 +0000 7/2/06, Tricia Drakes wrote:
>It may be that this option would provide a less expensive alternative rather
>than the cost of upgrading the present system, and might also provide the
>required functionality, ease of use etc. plus a much lower level of "ongoing
>maintenance" cost and effort.

Perhaps the system should be written under such a license that other 
worldwide NGOs could use it for free. They might even want to improve 
it!

This requires a little bit of a different development process, with 
fictional future users in mind (good documentation required), but it 
could be very, very benificial for other worldwide initiatives in 
need for collecting information/donations from many individual 
members around the globe. With such a system in place worldwide 
movements can be mobilised using our modest little system.

When ISOC sponsors can see themselves that the membership system 
build with their donations can be used by other organisations it 
motivates them to donate. The little text about the license under 
which it is written and the link to downloading the source code 
should be on every page the system generates. Why not give away what 
we paid for? After all, there are no other Internet Society 
initiatives on this planet we are competing with, are there?

For example, the site http://petities.nl is build with a 10000 euro 
donation from the Dutch government and anyone in the world can get 
the sourcecode from me to use it for another country where a website 
enabling citizens to easily set up and host petitions is desired. 
Anyone interested by the way?


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