The Calgary Perspectives on Software Testing Workshop, POST, has an intellectual property (IP) agreement for the workshops that all participants are asked to agree to.

If the workshop achieves its goal, the resulting work will be very interesting to the general testing community. Each participant will probably have their own take on what was learned.

Participants agree to the following:

(a) Any participant can publish the results as we see them. No participant is the official reporter of the meeting unless it is decided at the meeting that there will be a reporter.

(b) Any materials presented to the meeting or developed at the meeting may be posted to any of our web sites. That is, if I write a paper, you can put it on your web site. If you write a paper, I can put it on my web site. If we make flipchart notes, those can go up on the web sites too. None of us has exclusive control over this material.

(c) Any publication of the material from this meeting lists all participants as contributors to the ideas published.

(d) As a courtesy, articles should be circulated to POST participants before being published. Circulation will be via posting to the POST LinkedIn Group.

(e) Any participant may request that his or her name be removed from the list of attendees identified on a specific paper.

If you have information which you consider proprietary or otherwise shouldn't be disclosed in light of these publication rules, do not reveal that information to the group.