SectionPage Development
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<h2> Research, Development and Promotion </h2>
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Dasher <b>Research
</b> is taking place in the <a href=/is/>inference group</a>.
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Dasher  <b>
Development and Promotion
</b> is now managed
 as an Open Source project  by
 our project manager, Matthew Garrett.
 [Why Open Source? Read <a href=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/>The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a>,
 which also offers advice on the number of core developers (1-3) -
 also available <a href=/mackay/opensource/>locally</a>.]
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 You can interact with the Dasher team in two ways:
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<b>(1)</b>
 If you have
<b>questions</b> about  Dasher, please follow
 <b><a href="http://www.metafaq.com/faq/dasher/">the Any questions? link</a></b>
and  use this FAQ to report any bugs or problems you encounter.
 When reporting bugs, please be sure to give the precise version
 of Dasher you are using, and complete information about how to reproduce
 the bug.
 [We maintain our own bug information locally on <a href=http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/bugzilla/>bugzilla</a>.
 (<a href=http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27>view all</a>)]

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<b>(2)</b>
 If you would like to <b>be kept up to date</b> with  Dasher development news,
 join the  Dasher  Yahoo Group.
 If you decide you'd like to hear <b>special announcements only</b>,
 you can join the same group, and then modify your membership settings 
 <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dasher-text-entry/">at
  the discussion group website</a>.
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<p><b>License</b><br>
	We plan to distribute Dasher source code
	 under the GNU public license (<a href= "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>)
	initially.
	[A later version of Dasher may be distributed  under the <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LGPL</a> if there is demand.] These licenses allow anyone to use the source
	code, and ensure that modified versions of the source code
	remain equally free to everyone. Developers who contribute minor
	source code changes are asked to transfer copyright to the  copyright owner (David Ward)
	<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright">in accordance with the
advice of the free software foundation</a>.
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<b>Timetable</b><br>
 We aim to release the  source code about August 2002.
 At that time, we will still be making major modifications to
 the backbone of the source code, so we will not encourage
 major new contributions to the project; the source tree will be
 maintained in Cambridge and contributions can be submitted to us
 for inclusion. <br>

 By October 2002, we hope to have the overall structure fixed.
 At this point, we may move the source tree to sourceforge.
 We may also release a Dasher library under the LGPL.
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 If none of the above routes  satisfies your needs,
 please  <a href=mailto:dasher@mrao.cam.ac.uk>send an email</a>.
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