[pdb-discuss] Having an irc meeting to plan development work

Tue Jan 16 20:10:28 UTC 2007

Rob Myers wrote:
> Nathan Lewis wrote:
>>
>> My apologies everyone,
>>
>> In the end I was not able to make it. What was discussed and what did 
>> you all decide.
> 
> We discussed the Musicbrainz proposal, and decided it is a good idea.
> 
> So pd-burn will use Musicbrainz as a data store and build its own 
> applications on top of that, similarly to CC or OurMedia's use of 
> archive.org as a data storage platform for their community projects and 
> software.
> 
> pd burn data will be stored in Musicbrainz, and pd-burn will develop 
> software to facilitate this and to query the MB database to find PD 
> work. This means we don't need to develop a database or metadata format, 
> we can just help improve an existing one and build on it.
> 
> All of which seems like a good use of resources and very cool. The MB 
> basic database is Public Domain, which seems to make sense. I personally 
> think we should get a legal opinion on that, and also contact MB and get 
> some kind of statement from them that this is all OK and works as we 
> think it does, but those are minor backp-covering issues. :-)
> 
> The pd-burn website is being converted to WordPress to store the current 
> information as a step towards this.
> 
> Rufus have I misremembered or missed anything?

No that sounds right. Just to add a few bits of extra info:

1. Our job will now be:

   1. getting data on old recordings and parsing into a form suitable 
for upload to MB

   2. Extracting data from MB and running our 'public domain' algorithm 
on it

2. The WP install is now working properly (bit of auth issues yesterday) at:

   http://project.knowledgeforge.net/pdw/mainsite/

I've made one account for Michael (username + password as we discussed 
yesterday i.e. mhh...). Anyone else want an account let me know. Once 
we've got a bit of stuff in there we can move this to 
http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ (as stuff to add I suggest copying the 
current copyright status info from fc-uk site).

I've also got the irc transcript which I can post if people really want 
to see it.

~rufus