Pass Forward Project to New Team

[dazzaji]

This just in from Jonathan Askin:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Askin ... wrote:
Who’s got controls on First-to-Disclose? Mike Jones, the student who was running the project at Brooklyn Law, is now in private practice but can allocate some pro bono time to fixing and finalizing.
Yours in common mission,
Jonathan

Some tasks:

-[ ] Make Mike Organization Owner
-[ ] Setup Hangout With Mike to Walk Through Project for Smooth Pass-Forward

We can add a task to this checklist if needed to effect a smooth pass-forward.

Here is my reply email:

Jonathan - Glad to hear it! The project is ready for Mike (or anybody) to pickup and move forward under open source license in open GitHub repositories here:

https://github.com/FirstToDisclose

Mike - It is good to know you are interested to take the project forward and to the next level. This is a good moment for this transfer. Lately, this project has been simmering on standby, for the last few months while me, Jason and others who worked on it have been engaged in other activities.

Mike - can you l email me and Jason your GitHub username to me and Jason so one of us can make you an admin of the organization which provides admin for all the repositories and the teams too. Before you make any major changes, let's set up time for a brief hangout to walk through the contents of the repositories and generally talk through the state of the project so we can have a smooth handoff. I've also written up a little checklist in a project repo issue ticket so we'll have a single point of reference to be sure the new team has what it needs to start working on the project and it's passed forward in a smooth way. Here is the issue ticket for passing the project forward:

#137

Re the website: The domain name points to the GitHub hosted project website and does not need to be changes when others take over the project. When the new team updates the website in the GitHub pages branch, the FirstToDisclose website just updates.

Jason, please do add anything that would be helpful if I missed something!

All - I think the project is technically in much better shape for the task at hand than it was when our nascent Massachusetts Legal Hackers and MIT received it from Brooklyn Law School. The project attracted over 20 legal and civic hackers over several months of concerted, focused activity. It is now fit for purposes of testing, iteration and piloting. I think everybody can feel very good about how this arrangement worked as a model for incubating open source projects to get them to the next level. Now... let's get it to the next level :-)

Thanks,

• Dazza

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