- Opensource model of development

From: Rene A. Krywult <"Rene>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:32:26 +0200

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In general, there are two ways out of this "dillemma". The first one would be, that someone with a great amount of time at his hands plays this role. I don't see someone like this around here.

The second way out is to split the work of this one indivual into parts small enough to be done by a "core group" of people without large amounts of time at hand.

This second way was used by Mozilla. There's a central group leading the way, contributing developers, testers and usersfrom the outside.

The central group, in our case, could well be the current BB list members. OMI is part of this group.

So the next step would be to make an internet web site, set up the source on something like CVS, define projects for the future (like: ports to other systems and platforms, CVS-client, &c.) In fact, the web site itself is a "project". So the next question would be: Do we have someone with the *skills* and time enough to set up such a website within the next 3 months? A very important part in doing the website would be to
get other OpenSource sites to link to us and optimize it for search engine ranking. But this can be done by someone else again. Then we need someone to do a monthly or better weekly newsletter for the community.

Rene


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Datum: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:47:34 -0400
Von: "Douglas G. Danforth" <danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
An: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Betreff: [BlackBox] - Opensource model of development

> Rene A. Krywult wrote:
> > <preaching mode on>
> > I think we as BB community have just not started to even understand
> > what OPENSOURCE is all about. Frankly, as a community, we are NOT
> > doing good in this area.
> >
> > I suggest everybody interested in pushing BB (not only interested in
> > keeping it alive!) should read the following article:
> > *http://tinyurl.com/wqys
> Rene,
> I agree with you.
> However, we need a Linus Torvalds (or some one to take that
> responsibility) to act as head
> guru, editor, overseer.
>
> I have skimmed the article in the past and did not see
> how to create software *without* having some single individual
> coordinate things. Please enlighten me if I am wrong.
>
> -Doug
>
> <http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/faqs/linus>
>
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