Open Source Project Management: A view from the inside
Panel discussion featuring open source leaders
Local leaders of open source projects will discuss how Open Source projects work. Come and hear the inside scoop on how the process works! If you've ever thought about getting involved in an open source project, or are just curious, you need to be here!
A round table / panel discussion consisting of people who actively work in an open source community:
Ryan Dzrama - founder and lead developer of Drupal Commerce (a recent fork/rewrite of Ubercart).
Jeff Squyres - leader of Open-MPI (High Performance Message Passing Library project).
Scott Ullrich and Chris Buechler - leaders of pfSense, the leading open source firewall.
Mike (Stew) O'Connor - Developer and committer for the Debian operating system.
?? (If you're active in an open source project, come and join the panel!)
Come with your questions and observations about open source. Some questions that have been suggested so far include:
How / why did your project start?
What license does your project use, and why?
What source code repository does your project use, and why?
What language(s) is(are) your project written in, and why?
How do you advertise / attract users to your project?
How is your software distributed?
What development tools do you use to create / maintain your project?
How do you build a community?
Communities need leaders. How do you manage / lead the community you've built? Benevolent dictator? Cat herder? Something else?
How do you handle intellectual property issues?
How do you handle conflict resolution?
How do you guarantee the quality of the code (especially as the code base gets too large for one person to fully grok/maintain in their brain)?
October 12 Meetup:
Web Development: The Big Picture
A quick overview of the entire Web development "stack" from TCP/IP to AJAX, to help you sort out all the acronyms, clarify a few things that might seem murky, and hopefully reduce the intimidation factor for newbie developers. (And a good review for established developers.)
Attention all you Old Pros: This is a trial run of a program we can present in other venues to promote the Open Source movement. We need your presence to critique, correct, and suggest improvements!
Meeting will be followed by a meeting of the Programming SIG.
Pizza served at 6:30! See you there!
September 14 Meetup:
Debian Package Management
Presented by Stew O'Connor, a member of the Debian Development Team
Last month's program was abruptly interrupted by a power outage just as Mike ("Stew") O'Connor was about to begin his presentation on Debian Package Management. So he will be presenting this month.
Stew is a member of the Debian Development Team and has responsibilities dealing with wrapping it all up into those nifty apt packages we're all so familiar with. So he'll be able to give us a superior overview of the architecture of the system and answer any questions, both beginner and advanced, we might have.
Along the way, maybe we'll glean some insight into how open source projects actually work.
There is time for additional presentations or discussions too if anyone is so inspired. (Unfortunately, Ben W. won't be able to make it back this month to continue the Android topic.) Come and share what great things you've been doing ... or what great problems you've encountered trying to do it.
Pizza is served at 6:30!
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
-John
PS. If this is your first time to attend, we meet at LVL1, Louisville's Hackerspace, which is located in the rear of 814 East Broadway, on the south side of Broadway between Logan and Shelby streets. Park in the ORI parking lot on Shelby, cross the alley and enter LVL1 through the alley entrance. (Don't be offput by the talk of alley entrances; this is actually a very open and well lit area.)
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