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Participate in the survey: agile open source development
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Misc
Hi!
I am preparing a talk, that I will give at an open source conference in august (http://www.Froscon.org). The topic is “agile open source development” and I’m looking for projects that like to participate and help me to gather some data about agile techniques in these projects.
Often projects don’t realize that they use agile techniques, so it would be nice if you and/or the team could answer the questions and send me an email to cornelis@pcornelissen.de and place your project name and “[TALK]” in the subject, so my mail filters can mark the mails accordingly.
There are no wrong answers and it’s completely ok, if your project does not use any of the mentioned techniques!
To be able to use the data for the talk it would be nice if you could send me the reply before the 20th of july. If you can’t make it for that date, I can use it nevertheless, because I’m going to write a blog entry after I gave the talk about the topic.
I’d like to thank you in advance for your time and effort! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
If you are involved in multiple projects, feel free to send me multiple replies to this mail. You may also send this to other people/projects you know, if you think they might want to participate.
BTW: I am also interested in negative experiences with certain techniques or agile development as a whole (in the context of open source projects).
The survey won’t take long and I’ll give credit to each project in the talk and the blog post, that I’ll write afterwards!
The wordpress installation was broken and the article links didn’t work. Now they should work again…
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Preparing FrOSCon talk – agile open source development
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Misc
In august I’m giving a talk on agile open source development. I have prepared an email with questions for open source projects that use or have tried agile techniques. If you know a project that may be interested to participate and get some coverage in the talk, please contact me at cornelis@pcornelissen.de
The talk will be in german, but after the conference, I’ll write a blog post here in english.
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Nice video regarding managing open source projects
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Misc
I am watching the video of Alexandra Leisses talk at the Froscon 2009 with the title “Managing the Unmanageable”.
You can download it at:
ftp://ftp.stw-bonn.de/pub/froscon/2009/prerelease_please_do_not_redistribute/sa/hs12/…
It is a nice talk and worth watching! (Language is english!)
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Google summer of code 2010 – students, apply now!
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Misc
The projects have been chosen, now it’s up to the students to apply for certain tasks. So if you are a student and you have spare time left, need a little bit of money and you want to help the open source community, then go to:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-apply-now-for-google-summer-of.html
And check the available projects and tasks :-)
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Video of my (german) Froscon talk finally online
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Misc, Talk posts
I held a talk about things to consider, when you’re starting an open source project and what you can do to keep it alive. The talk is in german (sorry, no subtitles, but the talk is the insparation for this blog, so you can more or less read what I have talked about here). I have fixed the sound, because the microphone had some minor problems. There are a few minutes where the sound is a little bit crappy.
See the video here: Froscon “Open Source Projekte starten und am Leben halten” auf Vimeo
It’s time again. If you want google to pay someone, so he helps in your project, apply now!
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Spread the word – communicating with your users Part 1
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
For us developers, it’s easy to write the code, but that is not all a good project needs to do. You have to provide information on your project, the releases, the schedules and how to use your software. That’s a bunch of work, how can you fulfill the user expectations?
(more…)
early-phase · hosting · introduction · talk
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Numbers are nothing but smoke and mirrors – selecting a version numbering scheme
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
Choosing the right scheme for the version numbers is not as easy as it sounds. There are many implications that you may not think of in the first place. Selecting a version scheme without thinking is like selecting a name without thinking and you don’t wouldn’t do that, would you?
communication · early-phase · introduction · naming · release-planning · talk
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Release early, release often – plan your release cycle well
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
Oracle decided to shut down the public services of Kenai (the sun hosting site, that was announced on java-One last year). First I thought that the idea of combined standard services with a shared frontend for project hosting is dead. But today I received an email from the kenai admins and they clarified the oracle strategy. The Kenai infrastructure will be merged into java.net, so kenai is not dead, it has switched bodies ;-)
I am really glad that oracle has decided in this way!
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The emperor wants to see you – being a good project leader
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
Sometimes people start to behave weird when they are in control or able to influence others. They act rude, or for example are mean to their users or project members… So, take a second and reflect if you are doing similar things and hurting your project and reputation.
communication · early-phase · introduction · social-skills · talk
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Divide and conquer – don’t do everything on your own
1 Comment · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
Your project published a few releases and a small developer team is forming. You’re still doing the communication and web site maintenance. Time for real development is becoming smaller and smaller. Are you doing it right? (more…)
early-phase · external-help · introduction · social-skills · talk
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So, you’re the new one … – integrating new people in your project
No comments · Posted by patrick.c in Talk posts
This blog post deals with the mistakes and opportunities you might encounter when you’re trying to integrate new people in the project. The problems range from a too high entrance barrier to overly caring project leads that suffocate new members…
communication · early-phase · introduction · social-skills · talk
This article deals with the fun aspect of building a project team. There are many things you can profit from when you participate in a project. I am going to write about a few of them…
communication · early-phase · introduction · social-skills · talk
