[Linux-aus] Stemformatics application for the Linux Australia Grants Scheme

Sat Apr 1 09:05:39 AEDT 2017

Hi Russell,

That question about dataset licensing is very good one that I have not
thought of before.  Going forward I will do some research about where we
are getting our data from and their licensing and choose a data license for
our processed data and make it explicit on the website.

All software will be put into a public bitbucket account alongside our
current Stemformatics software.

I can also see your point about *"Is there a risk that access to the
curated data needed for the **application might be removed at some future
time?"*. The processed data would be in the tens of TBs so would not be
able to fit in github/bitbucket. This data will be treated the same as
other research data as it will be hosted on NeCTAR / RDS services. The
chances of that data being removed without oversight in the future would be
greatly reduced  compared to hosting it on a commercial platform.

Thanks again for your input Russell, I hope that I have answered your
questions.

Regards,

Rowland

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 5:46:12 PM AEDT Rowland Mosbergen wrote:
> > Dear Linux Australia Council members and community,
> >
> > I would like to make a grant application for the Linux Australia Grants
> > Scheme on behalf of Stemformatics.
> >
> > You can view the application as a pdf (attached) or a link (below):
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Hjv6EC6GA2A6_
> DQcOjv7zqubt96nBaqoV7YbeUN
> > CJg/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > I only recently realised that I need to be a member of Linux Australia to
> > quality for this grant. I did apply on the 27th of March 2017 to fulfil
> > this criteria.
> >
> > Please let me know if any extra information is needed for this
> application.
>
> I think this is a very worthy project and the amount of money requested
> seems
> reasonable given the expected return.  But I have some concerns about
> licensing and source access.
>
> The PDF states that you will "create all of these under an open source
> license
> (Apache License, Version 2.0)".  What about the license of the datasets
> that
> you are using?  It's implied that you are getting them from other
> organisations, do they have licenses that are compatible or are you
> receiving
> a license grant from those organisations that permits redistributing the
> bundle under the Apache license?  I expect that you will have sorted this
> out
> somehow, but I would like it made clear.
>
> For the software that is produced, will you put it in a public repository
> like
> Github?  How big is the data?  Can the data fit in github or some other
> public
> repository?  Is there a risk that access to the curated data needed for the
> application might be removed at some future time?
>
> Finally if this grant application is approved I suggest that we make a
> further
> offer of travel expenses if one of the developers of this project is
> accepted
> as a speaker at an LCA miniconf.  The general practice is that speakers at
> the
> main conference may be offered travel expenses from the LCA budget but not
> for
> miniconf speakers.  I think that we should make it a standard practice
> that a
> miniconf speaker who is speaking about work performed under an LA grant
> should
> be offered a further grant towards travel expenses from anywhere in
> Australia
> or NZ.
>
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