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!

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agile · froscon · talk

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!)

froscon · talk · video

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

froscon · news · talk · video