From: Kathy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>

Date: September 1, 2006 5:54:53 PM EDT

To: [log in to unmask]

Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]

Subject: OSDL hosting Software Tagging workshop, 9/6

Sayeed:

I work at Open Source Development Labs in Portland, OR www.osdl.org. 

As the Program Chair Open Repositories Conference, I

thought you might be interested in the workshop OSDL is hosting on

software tagging.

http://www.osdl.org/docs/software_tagging_workshop_flier.pdf 

Although your focus is related toward digital institutional

repositories, many subjects intersect with current issues managed by

software code related repositories.

OSDL is organizing a workshop on the 'open source as prior art' (aka

"osapa") initiative we're working on with the USPTO.  The goal of the

workshop is to gather as many source code repositories together as

possible to develop and work on a social tagging system that can be used

to tag software in way that makes it easier to be found by the uspto

when it looks for prior art.  Representatives from Google, Eclipse,

kernel.org, freshmeat, sf.net, and other repositories are registered to

attend. 

Please feel free to pass the workshop info on to others you think may be

interested in such an event. The attached flier describes the

workshop, and here are links to the project itself (www.osapa.org) and a

rough prototype of the tagging software

(http://prevalent-digest.de/osstag/current/).  

Thanks in advance for passing this along.

-- 

Kathy Anderson, Sr. Paralegal

OSDL

503-906-1971 Direct

503-906-1970 Fax

___________________________

NOTICE: This electronic mail may contain privileged and confidential

attorney-client communications and attorney work product. If you

received this communication in error, or are not the named recipient,

please delete the communication without using, copying, or otherwise

disseminating it. Please notify the sender at the contact information

above that you received the message in error.