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Andrew, the pear.php.net repository site really seems to be essentially what I was envisioning (especially with the proposals section). Erik, there are several good reasons to build our own rather than use space available in other domains. The first and foremost is that the library community is big enough and specific enough to warrant its own centralized location for these things. Another issue is that there are a large range of skills that are useful to library application development that simply aren't touched on in other areas. There are plenty of people who understand AACR2, FRBR, LCSH etc that wouldn't go near a place like sourceforge thinking there is no room for them there. Simple branding is another very important reason. Google the phrase 'library open source' and tell me if the results give you any sense that the library community is actively developing open source tools/libraries/applications/etc. to meet its needs. I've known a fair amount of library-staff who work on little code projects in isolation, who if they knew there was a larger project they could work on and get involved with they would (this is also true for the relatively large number of ex-software developers I've met in libraries). Snippets of code and various packages/libraries need to be organized and collected, but the larger aim would be to create a community of people interested in creating open source software applications for libraries. --Will At 05:12 PM 8/13/2007, you wrote: >At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:25:58 -0400, >Gabriel Farrell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > In #code4lib today we discussed for a bit the possibility of setting up > > something on code4lib.org for code hosting. The project that spurred > > the discussion is Ed Summer's pymarc. The following is what I would > > like to see: > > > > * projects live at code.code4lib.org, so pymarc, for example, would be > > at code.code4lib.org/pymarc > > * svn for version control > > * trac interface for each > > * hosted at OSU with the rest of code4lib.org, for now > >What will this offer that sf.net, codehaus.org, nongnu.org, >savannah.gnu.org, code.google.com, gna.org, belios.de, etc. don’t? Why >not simply link to ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities> >and let people decide which they prefer? > >Other people mentioned the sharing of code snippets; a wiki works best >for sharing code snippets, examples, & single file source. See ><http://emacswiki.org/> for a lively example. > >best, >Erik Hetzner >