Open DrJohnMelville opened 1 year ago
The Project Committee Charter (https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects) contains activity criteria which is used to evaluate project applications. This project does not currently exhibit activity or adoption metrics at a level which would allow for an application approval- however based on the broad applicability and high commit totals, it will be included in the Seed category for consideration as a Member project in the future.
It will also be important to provide details around the open source dependencies - including the licensing for each dependency.
Thank you for reviewing this application. I recognize the unacceptable risk of adopting a project with no current users, and am grateful to be offered a place in the seed category.
I fear that I am much better at programming than marketing. My efforts to reply even to very on topic questions online -- questions like "Is there a free library to render PDF in .NET" -- have been rejected as spam. I tried writing some online articles about my project, and no one is reading them. (It is quite demoralizing to be unable to give away what others are selling!) If there were any suggestions or resources that you could provide on how small open-source projects get noticed and adopted, I would be very appreciative.
All of the open source dependencies (all 4 of them) are listed in the Readme.MD file under "Who else contributed." I just added information about the licenses for those four libraries.
Thank you again,
1. General Information
Project Name: Melville.PDF
License: MIT
Contributor (Company, Organization or individual name(s)): John Melville, MS, MD
Existing OSS Project? (Yes/No): NO
Source Code URL: https://github.com/DrJohnMelville/Pdf
Project Homepage URL (if different): https://github.com/DrJohnMelville/Pdf
Project Transfer Signatories: John Donald Melville -- JohnMelville@gmail.com Full legal name and email address required of the individual(s) with the authority to transfer or contribute the project to the .NET Foundation. Note that if you'd prefer not to include this in the public application, it can be submitted via e-mail to contact@dotnetfoundation.org (referencing this issue number).
2. Description
Please provide a brief statement about your project in terms that are understandable to the target consumer of the library or project, i.e. an elevator pitch for the project:
Melville.PDF is a .NET PDF render. The project renders PDF documents to WPF or SkiaSharp using minimal external dependencies, a;; of which have liberal open source licenses.
Please provide a 1 sentence (<140 character) summary of your project to help users when searching the .NET Foundation projects .NET PDF rendering library
3. Project Governance
Please complete this section about who will be maintaining the open source project and how it will run. Project Lead: (Who is the primary contact point for the community and the .NET Foundation when discussing governance of the project.)
Name: John Melville Email: JohnMelville@gmail.com GitHub Profile URL: https://github.com/DrJohnMelville
Committers:
Which individuals have commit / write access to the repository, what is their GitHub ID and who is their employer (if contributions are on behalf of an employer) John Melville -- Github ID DrJohnMelville
Governance Model: Right now I am the only contributor so right now I just do what I want. I presume that in the early days of this project simple consensus among a small number of comitters is a reasonable governance model. I do not currently have ambitions to outgrow the need for simple governance.
CLA I am the only contributor at this point.
CLA Notification Alias johnmelville@gmail.com
Assignment Model. I am ok with assignment and grantback license.
4. Repository Layout
The .NET Foundation host guidance for new projects and details on recommended structure here: https://github.com/dotnet/home/tree/master/guidance
Note that the open source repository should be the master where changes are made by the core development team using the same PR process that is used for non-committer contributions.
Please define below any changes you would want to make to your repositories as part of the process of joining the .NET Foundation
I would be happy to make the required changes to conform to the .NET Foundation requirements. I would need to rename the Docs folder to Documentation. I would need to add .gitattributes, NOTICE.MD, and CONTRIBUTING.md files and am willing to do so.
5. Eligibility Criteria
Please complete the following for your project
6. PR Plan
Please summarize the public relations plan for the announcement when joining the foundation (and releasing as open source if appropriate). What is the main story we wish to promote, through what channels, what issues should we be aware of? For significant news events then please also work with your .NET Foundation contact to ensure a full PR plan is developed.
I am hoping that membership in the .NET foundation will help improve the visibility of the project. I do not have a specific PR plan.
7. Infrastructure Requirements
Please describe any infrastructure requirements for the project. For example, how will build servers be operated? Any web hosting or service hosting requirements? Do we need to set up SSL certificates or provide Authenticode Code Signing arrangement for releases?
None right now.
8. Additional Notes
Please provide any additional information required or use this area for notes during the onboarding process. If this open source project has similarities with any other projects in this space then please detail them and why this project is different. If there are any potential issues that you feel the project might need help with early on then also state them here and discuss with your .NET Foundation Contact.
See the readme file on github.