Hi, Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can be useful.
So let's start - here's my rough initial list of items: Code: open, discoverable, fully public history, documented provenance Quality: security, backwards compatibility, etc Contributions: welcome from anyone based on technical quality License: Apache License, dependencies must not put additional restrictions Community: inclusive, meritocratic, no dictators, clear documented path to entry Discussions and decisions: asynchronous, in a single central place, archived Decision making: consensus, votes if needed, technical vetoes in the worst case Independence: from any corporate or organizational influence Releases: source code only, notices, long-lived release format Related efforts, inspiration: http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/12/11/open-or-fauxpen-use-the-oss-watch-openness-rating-tool-to-find-out/ http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:16 -Bertrand
