BeeSeek Blog

Official tool for meetings

IRC has been chosen as the official tool for meetings, because it
allows to transcript decisions and discussions in 3 ways, to improve
transparency between council and community:

Hive in apt

Hive&co will enter apt with pycentral.

Temporary license for BeeSeek

GPL v3 has been chosen momentarily, but we're waiting a final decision.

Shop in Cafepress.com

We've opened a virtual shop at this address:
profits are zero, to increase chances that our gadgets are bought.

Using Dreamhost hosting

The website will remain on Dreamhost until Beeseek will be too big for
it. Hive&Co will be hosted on a VPS by vpslink.com, sharing the host
name between the two.

Official beeseek language

As you can see, dear english reader, english is the official language
for beeseek documentation, while the italian language is only optional
at this moment.

How to vote in the council

Everything needs a half plus one votes to be approved. The vote is valid only if at least half of the council and Simone are present. In case of parity, Simone's vote will count double, irrespective of the number of council members.
Simone has also a SABDFL role (Self Addicted Benevolent Dictator For Life), meaning that he can force any votation if he likes so.

nota bene: this point is still under discussion.

Database cleaning

beeseek's database needed to be reorganized, so:

Changing in platforms for wiki and forum

Mediawiki has been substituted with MoinMoin, because:

The forum platform has not been chosen yet, because forum will transform into a support place for users.

Changes in sites domains

Domains become

Economic issues

Using Rosetta

Despite the official language is english, Rosetta is the right tool expecially for translations. Since beeseek is still in development, the most useful parts to translate are wiki and blog. To integrate Rosetta in our project we need PO files that contains an ID for each text string (Rosetta asks that it corresponds to the english sentence) and the translated string (initially in english too). This task will be accomplished by a dedicated script. Once POs are created, we have to load them in the Launchpad server in the appropriate section and wait that it is approved by a Launchpad administrator.

Creating a project FAQ

To help newbies that are joining beeseek for the first time, we are creating a FAQ section.

The BeeSeek Council meets usually once a week on the dedicated IRC channel, #beeseek-council on server irc.freenode.net. During those meetings, the Council takes strategical decisions and talks about BeeSeek general development, as it is needed in any project, and so in FOSS project like BeeSeek.
To be transparent, in this page we'll add the transcriptions of every Council meeting.

This is the Salotto of our Hive: here we interview people and publish their answers.

You're welcome to read the chit-chat that our Blog Team will have with the various people inside the big hive of Beeseek.

BeeSeek is an open source project which purpose is to develop a search engine based on a P2P technology. The project starts from an idea by Simone Brunozzi, Ubuntista on the net, who decided to propose it to the community, becoming an open-source project. So the search engine BeeSeek starts from the community and is aimed to the same community.

Therefore everybody is invited to participate on its development and in the future on its employment.