Comments on: Links http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/04/14/links/ Dave Neary's view of the world Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ron Fredericks http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/04/14/links/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Ron Fredericks Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/04/14/links/#comment-585 I can understand Ari's comments. But I think there is room for many types of open-source communities:<p/>1) Harvest existing open-source software like Linux, where a few key individuals previously set in motion a great product and a great project model for the rest of us to use – and maybe use a corporate web site to manage the “harvesting” process,<p/>2) Contribute more open-source software to an already great product, like Linux, that only gets better as more contribute - thanks to the founding individuals, their project management methods, and the accepted web portals that act as their “watering holes”,<p/>3) Or be the new visionary with open-source project management methods that the rest of us can follow while delivering an entirely new open-source solution...<p/>Recently I discovered one of the early (first?) open-source community projects from 1981 that was successfully deployed on top of a closed operating system for a mobile embedded device. Perhaps your readers would be interested in learning about the similarities and differences demonstrated by these 100 engineers during their 3 year open-source community development project:<br/><a href="http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2007/04/community-software-development-for-embedded-devices/">http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2007/04/community-software-development-for-embedded-devices/</a><br/> I can understand Ari’s comments. But I think there is room for many types of open-source communities:

1) Harvest existing open-source software like Linux, where a few key individuals previously set in motion a great product and a great project model for the rest of us to use – and maybe use a corporate web site to manage the “harvesting” process,

2) Contribute more open-source software to an already great product, like Linux, that only gets better as more contribute – thanks to the founding individuals, their project management methods, and the accepted web portals that act as their “watering holes”,

3) Or be the new visionary with open-source project management methods that the rest of us can follow while delivering an entirely new open-source solution…

Recently I discovered one of the early (first?) open-source community projects from 1981 that was successfully deployed on top of a closed operating system for a mobile embedded device. Perhaps your readers would be interested in learning about the similarities and differences demonstrated by these 100 engineers during their 3 year open-source community development project:
http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2007/04/community-software-development-for-embedded-devices/

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