The officers of the Unicode Consortium (http://unicode.org) have discussed this issue, and are interested in exploring hosting the TZ efforts. Aside from the Unicode projects, we currently also support other independent efforts (http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/, http://www.unicode.org/udhr/). Hosting the TZ project would provide for mailing list hosting, code distribution, source code repository (SVN) if desired, etc., web pages, etc. -- presuming that the functioning of the TZ group would continue basically as it does now.

If there is interest in something along these lines, we can discuss more specifics of what this would look like and then pass a proposal by our board of directors.

Mark


On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:51, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
I'll be eligible to start drawing a pension in mid-2012. Since I'm accustomed to slow-moving Quaker process,
that makes it time to get serious about finding a new home for time zone stuff.

There are several pieces of the puzzle (some of which haven't seen much work of late):
       Data maintenance
       Data distribution
       Code maintenance
       Code distribution
       Mailing list maintenance
       Mailing list hosting
       Standards work (for example, tweaking POSIX TZ environment variables so Godthab can be represented)
       Code enhancement (for example, year zero work and Julian calendar work)

There are different types of landing place:
       Governmental organizations
       Non-governmental organizations
       Commercial entities
       Volunteers

Everything could be moved under one new roof or different pieces might go different places.

While I'm happy to continue time zone work in the future, I also understand that it may be best for others to do the work.

Anyone? Bueller?

   --ado