[pytest-dev] Adding intro talk/slides to pytest-dev repos and licensing

[Bruno Oliveira]

Hi all,

Nice initiative Floris and Ronny!

I definitely like the idea of having a set of talks and introductions so
more people are encouraged to give talks and teach pytest, from local group
meetings to bigger conferences.

Cheers,
Bruno

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:33 AM RonnyPfannschmidt <
opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:

> Hi floris,
>
> thanks for starting this one :)
>
> as for my answers
>
> 1. i think its a good idea to have them
>
>   we should try to enable us and the community to give basic introductions,
>   perhaps even very basic workshops without too much prep work
>   (some kind of basic set for open source conferences and meet-ups/user
> groups)
>
>   we should also consider if and how we want to mention/advertise
>   the more commercial offerings for training/workshops at that place.
>
> 2. CC-BY is closer to MIT but for documentation/prose we specifically
> put into the public,
>   i would prefer to use the CC-BY-SA for the Share-Alike component,
>   but this is not a strong preference, just my personal opinion
>   that for things such as talks the CC-BY-SA is more fair
>
> 3. i would like to start a new repo for talks/workshop materials
>   and personally believe CC-BY-SA is a very reasonable and fair choice
>   putting emphasis on freedoms to use,
>   while also ensuring that enhancements ought to be shared.
>
> -- Ronny
>
> Am 13.03.2018 um 22:24 schrieb Floris Bruynooghe:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Ronny was interested in updating/adapting a pytest-intro talk I've given
> > at a meetup sometime before [0].  He suggested to add it in a repo under
> > the pytest-dev organisation, which seems like a fine idea.  Why not all
> > re-use slides if they're useful.
> >
> > However this also raises the question of what license to use.  Pytest
> > currently use MIT for everything but I'm not sure how suitable this is
> > for non-code.  After looking at Creative Commons, which seems like the
> > default license for this sort of things, we came to think the
> > Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) [1] would be a
> > reasonable choice for this.  Personally I wouldn't mind something closer
> > to MIT but it seems Creative Commons doesn't provide something like
> > this.
> >
> > So my questions to you all are:
> >
> > 1. Do you think having a talk/slides in a repo under the pytest-dev
> >    organisation is a good idea?
> >
> > 2. Do you think this is a suitable license for a talk?  Do you have
> >    any better suggestion?
> >
> > 3. Are we fine with putting CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed content in the
> >    pytest-dev organisation's repos?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Floris
> >
> >
> > [0] http://devork.be/talks/pytest-intro/talk.html
> > [1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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