[CCC DEV] Repository question

[Matt Jadud]

Hi all,

We would like to propose moving the KRoC repository to a space that
makes it easier to discover the project, and makes it easy for new
contributors to join and collaborate with us.

1) Project Discovery
Projects hosted at sites like Github or Bitbucket are easily
discovered by search engines, and are well understood in the open
source world to mean "please participate."

2) New Contributors
Currently, we must take an active role in approving new
contributors---editing permissions, creating branches, etc.
Distributed version control systems on public sites allow anyone to
fork, edit, and request a merge without our intervention. This would
be particularly excellent for supporting student projects.

3) Collaboration
We would like to continue developing opportunities for people to
explore occam-pi on a variety of platforms (Arduino, etc.). Currently,
growing our community is difficult.

As we look to begin some explorations on new hardware (the
Raspberry-Pi---see http://www.raspberrypi.org/ , and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjbNyA1ASkE for a video example), we
would like to make it easier to share and promote our efforts. In
truth, we're not so much asking for a move to a particular place as
suggesting we move to a distributed version control system. We would
suggest either Git or Mercurial.

Cheers,
Matt, Christian, Omer