Three top tips for surviving open source projects
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Two open source projects for EAI
Two open source projects for EAI
03/11/2003 01:22 AMThe open source projects Proteus and Babeldoc both announced new
releases.
Although they look very different (one is a "framework", the other is
a
"system"), both are written in Java, support XML, EJBs and JDBC
databases and
do not hide the fact that EAI is their vocation.
IRC log: How open source projects can
improve their PR
IRC log: How open source projects can
improve their PR
04/26/2004 10:08 AMSaturday, NewsForge editor Robin "Roblimo" Miller hosted an IRC chat
aimed at helping open source projects do better and more effective PR.
This is the (lightly edited) log of that chat.
Why most open source projects fail
Why most open source projects fail
06/22/2004 06:01 AMSome people have questioned my motives when I make the following
statement. Commercially supported software products normally out
development of open-source projects. There are several reasons for my
saying this and I will lay them out.
1. Dedicated Team of Paid Programmers lead by a lead developers.
2. Product vision for development.
3. Financially driven to make sure product succeeds.
The list goes on. Some of you are starch advocates of open-source
and I support open source but I have gotten burned more than once on
open source projects. Typically I have found that software projects
that start as open source have a higher success rate than those
products that start out as commercial and move later to open source.
I have found that Far too many Open Source projects have died
because while the wonderful buzzwords "free and open" get used, the
amount of talent actually working on many projects ends up being less
than zero. I think most people have huge expectations in expecting
Open Source to be a panacea for all software packages. Sadly usually
it isn't.
Effective PR for open source projects
Effective PR for open source projects
04/22/2004 10:47 AMThis Saturday we're holding an IRC discussion with OSDN editor in
chief Robin 'Roblimo' Miller about how to get the media spotlight to
shine on your project. Robin recently wrote a NewsForge article
article headlined Getting good PR for your open source project, and
he's the author of The Online Rules of Successful Companies, so he's
as strong an expert in this area as you're likely to find. The
(moderated) chat will be at 2000 UTC (4 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. PDT) on IRC
server events.oftc.net, #promo, Saturday, April 24, 2004.
New IRC Network For Open Source Projects
New IRC Network For Open Source Projects
02/05/2005 09:36 PMSlashdot Feb 5 2005 10:56PM GMT
Are small Open Source projects
sustainable?
Are small Open Source projects
sustainable?
07/14/2002 11:17 AMPHPTriad Postmortem
I built this thing because I wanted it. I shared it with the world
because I felt it was right. I'm shutting it down because I'm sick of
it and no longer enjoy it.
If the non-tangible benefits were still there, I might still be
running the project, in spite of no cashflow. After all, I understood
free software before starting it and never really expected to build a
successful business off of it. I did, however, kind of hope I might at
least cover server costs. That didn't happen. -- J Wynia
"tri" I sympathize with Mr Wynia. Without some sort of external need
(eg. to support my company's PHP products) and some personal
motivation, maintaining an Open Source project like PHPTriad or ADOdb
for years and years is hard work - John.
"zeldman.hungry"
New Legal Center for Open Source
Projects
New Legal Center for Open Source
Projects
02/01/2005 09:39 PMSlashdot Feb 1 2005 5:43PM GMT
VA, Black Duck Team on Open Source
Projects
VA, Black Duck Team on Open Source
Projects
06/17/2005 03:18 PMIntegrated toolkit is designed to manage software licenses throughout
a company's development lifecycle.
Packt Pays Royalties to Open Source
Projects
Packt Pays Royalties to Open Source
Projects
04/06/2005 12:05 PMOpen Source Receives Royalties Boost: This is an awfully
cool thing. Most of Packt's books are on open-source stuff, and a lot
of them are on projects for which no other books have been written.
Good to see them support the projects which provide them with subjects
for their books.
[...] Packt Publishing is paying royalties from each book they sell
to the open source project it is written on.
The company has published on, and subsequently given to, a number
of open source projects including eZ publish, Plone and phpMyAdmin.
Marc Delisle from the phpMyAdmin project explains that amongst other
things their support has "helped the team to be present at various
conferences in order to promote phpMyAdmin."
Nicely done, chaps. Bravo.
African open source projects gather
steam
African open source projects gather
steam
04/30/2004 05:38 PMACCRA - South African developers have made headway on a number of
open-source projects, including an upgrade to a new version of Linux.
CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects.
CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects.
05/24/2004 11:37 PMeWeek:
CA Moves
with New Open-Source Licensing for Content, Database Projects.
This article has some dangerous flaws. Proprietary/open source
dual-licensing can be done with the GPL; just look at
MySQL. (I see
the Plone Foundation themselves
are fighting this bad reporting.) Also, Apache is not
dual-licensed and IBM could have used it just as easily if it wasn't
owned by the ASF, because the
Apache License
is so permissive. (Also, companies that create gratuitous new open
source licenses are not on the Cluetrain, but at least it's not
dangerous.)
Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse
Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse
04/19/2005 08:38 AMA tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping
may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by
Versant and Oracle.
Legal center established for open-source
projects, developers
Legal center established for open-source
projects, developers
02/01/2005 09:25 PMSiliconValley.com Feb 1 2005 6:01AM GMT
CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects
CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects
05/24/2004 05:09 PMComputer Associates strays away from the GPL for its open-source Plone
content management application as well as its Ingres Enterprise
Relational Database, released Monday to the community.
entry by Steven Garrity about interface
improvements in open source projects
entry by Steven Garrity about interface
improvements in open source projects
04/28/2004 07:36 AMwww actsofvolition com archives 2004 april
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Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse (InfoWorld)
Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse (InfoWorld)
04/19/2005 08:45 AMInfoWorld - A tale of dueling open source projects for
object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar
proposals floated by Versant and Oracle.
Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with
GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to
Combat Longhorn
Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with
GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to
Combat Longhorn
04/09/2004 04:05 PMSun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D.
Sun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D.
06/28/2004 07:54 PMSun offloads four mostly useless Java projects to the open
source community including Looking Glass and Java3D. (See lip
service yesterday.)
IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)
IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)
08/03/2004 06:10 PMNewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is providing its Cloudscape relational
database software to the
Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an open-source organization, hoping
to
spur innovation for Java applications for embedded databases.
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
02/17/2004 11:57 PMAs per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself)
Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found
my post:
http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C
And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words:
___snip____
--
From: Katrin Verclas
Email: steering (a) nosi.net
Hi, Kevin -
NOSI actually just released a new...
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
05/07/2004 04:33 PMA key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed
to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the
legal standing of open-source software.
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
03/08/2004 11:20 PMhttp://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html
ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their
arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on
their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their
sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
06/23/2004 08:27 PM As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders
whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's
slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about
the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! —
here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that
Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So
there.)...
Open source process for open source
development
Open source process for open source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM
Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true
open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board
of directors:
Casper Dik,
Roy Fielding,
Al Hopper,
Simon Phipps, and
Rich Teer.
(via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've
been working my way through the
ITConversations audio
archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's
interview
with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the
ArsDigita flameout,
Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the
risk, of open source as a business model.
...How Often are Internal IT Projects Open
Sourced?
How Often are Internal IT Projects Open
Sourced?
04/06/2005 05:22 AMSlashdot Apr 6 2005 7:39AM GMT
From open source to open services to
open information
From open source to open services to
open information
03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My
March
21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition
because, on the same day, a new events database called
EVDB was announced and shown at PC
Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so
for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among
others:
Dan
Farber,
Ross
Mayfield,
Om Malik,
David
Weinberger, and
Paul
Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes).
The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style,
Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds
promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public.
...Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
04/08/2005 04:56 AMTechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now
offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
05/05/2004 04:06 AMAbout a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to
SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point
for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the
terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification,
addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and
privileges that we associate with open source software.
Open source process for closed source
development
Open source process for closed source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM IBM Adopts
Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its
Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a
form of open-source development internally to create technology the
company will sell commercially.
IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a
collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing
and testing new technology.
Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM
Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community
Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company.
These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research
and Global Services, he said."
Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the
so called open source development process have they built into the
Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different
definitions of the open source development process (via
Ross
Gardler).
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
02/13/2004 02:37 PMWhat should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows
2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says
Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the
whole enchilada.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
02/18/2004 10:41 PMPi
ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business
Model. Interesting.
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal,
and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the
issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the
speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the
issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the
benefits of Open Source.
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
12/19/2003 11:45 AMMSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't
deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch
for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.
Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take
advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's
own website-."
Update: Yoz points out
that the patch has been patched.
Link
(via /.)
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
04/12/2005 08:07 PMAccessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform
lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and
documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
07/20/2004 11:14 AMOne frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla
(keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained
unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction
with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and
that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt
with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this
that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?
Are you one of the few people with the time and money and
expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the
problem?
Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to
the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
08/03/2004 10:28 AMwashingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to
convince the general public that the Linux operating system is
becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld
conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a
sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
08/09/2004 12:52 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT
Open source cracks publishing wide open
Open source cracks publishing wide open
06/17/2004 11:24 AMOnce upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations.
Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank
from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat.
Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting
a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open
source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle,
are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.
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