Talk:Citizen App

Meeting January 25th 2022

This is the first meeting of the Citizen App Steering Committee.

Attendees Ben Forbes, Erman Ayday, Irene Ng, Paul Tasker, Tyler Weir, Wilfred Pinfold, Youngjin Yoo

Decisions Made and Agreed during the meeting

Timeline

1 Feb: Citizen App code open sourced by Dataswift for initial collaboration

1 Feb: Urban Systems join Citizen App project to assist with documentation

1 Feb: XLab/Case Western Reserve University students join the project group

10 Feb: Basic documentation ready for Citizen App project by Urban Systems.

10 Feb: Information to developers community that the project is now open for collaboration

16 Feb: Urban Systems CEO, Wilfred Pinfold, Dataswift CEO Irene Ng have a pre-Symposium fireside chat on the Citizen App, its importance, its purpose and how to get involved.

21 Feb: Blogpost on citizen app with video of fireside chat and the Citizen app manifesto is out

1 Mar: Citizen app project official launch at the 5th Symposium of the Digital Person

License

The HUT and Rumple code bases will be made available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. This was selected over the AGPL license to improve adoption particularly by commercial users.

Meetings

This group will meet bi-weekly during the launch phase of this project to set direction of the project. Next meeting will be at 7am Pacific on February 8th.

Host

Opencommons will act as host to the project. We will establish a membership fee designed to cover costs of code management and legal defense. Benefits of paying the membership fee will be eligibility to join the 'Citizen App Steering Committee' which will become an elected position among members. Membership Fee structure and amount is to be set by the Steering Committee at a future meeting.

Policy

Opencommons Privacy Policy Statement will be used. Suggestions for improving this policy should be brought to future meetings.

Opencommons Policies and Procedures refer to Apache License Version 2.0 unless otherwise specified. We will discuss this wording at a future meeting since the code will refer to the Mozilla License explicitly this should be fine but some modification may be beneficial for clarity.

Next Steps

Tyler and Wilf working to make the code base easily accessible in time for the Citizen App code open sourced date of February 1st