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Topic: Open source communities

	Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? \| Open Source Initiative
		As President of the Open Source Initiative, I feel a certain amount of responsibility for stewardship of the open source brand, including both the promotion of the brand as well as the protection of the brand.
		We wrote a definition of what it means to be open source, we promote that definition, and that's what the world expects when they see the term mentioned.
		I think that both "open source" and "open standards" are in a good position for broad groups of people to say "we like these terms--we want to you to use them correctly and carefully" rather than to try to make trademark the only mechanism for proper conduct.
	www.opensource.org /node/163 (9367 words)

	Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open source politics — is a term used to describe a political process that uses Internet technologies such as blogs, email and polling to provide for a rapid feedback mechanism between political organizations and their supporters.
		Open source journalism — referred to the standard journalistic techniques of news gathering and fact checking, and reflected a similar term that was in use from 1992 in military intelligence circles, open source intelligence.
		Open Source Yoga Unity — A nonprofit California corporation, was formed to provide a common voice, and the pooling of resources, to resist the enforcement of the copyright protection of any Yoga style thereby ensuring its continued natural unfettered practice for all to enjoy and develop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source (3902 words)

	Free software community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The free software community includes individuals, groups, and companies who use free software because they believe that the freedoms to help yourself and to collaborate with others should be fundamental human rights, and it includes those who see free software as a way to make money.
		This was warmly received by the community since the free software community did not have a mature office suite at the time, so this was a welcome contribution.
		Using the community's preferred licence was also welcome because this allowed source code to be shared with other projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_community (539 words)

	An Open Source Strategy for the Open Group
		Open Source developers are so highly fulfilled by their Open Source work that many of them will carry it out on their own time, or will accept lower salaries or fees if they are allowed to work on Open Source.
		When an Open Source project is important to the membership in general, and we want to spend money on it, it probably works better for the members to coordinate their spending than for them to go at it individually and perhaps at cross purposes to each other.
		Open Standards are a major mission of the Open Group, and thus we should concern ourselves with the interface of Open Source and Open Standards.
	www.opengroup.org /tech/open-source/opengroup-os-strategy.htm (4287 words)

	ONLamp.com -- What Is Open Source
		Open source usually refers to software that is released with source code under a license that ensures that derivative works will also be available as source code, protects certain rights of the original authors, and prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use it.
		Open source began as, and for the most part still is, software created by a community of people who are dedicated to working together in a highly collaborative and evolutionary way.
		This is the essential meaning of open source: the source code--the language in which the software is written and the key to understanding how the software works--can be obtained and improved by anyone with the right skills.
	www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/15/what-is-opensource.html (903 words)

	Open source around the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Data on the open source community outside the U.S. is even more difficult to obtain than data inside the U.S. This is due in part to the nature of open source and in part to the youth of the community.
		Open source as a whole is also becoming an increasing interest among the growing student population.
		Open source is big here in terms of use and support, but there doesn't seem to be much participation in community-building on the Web.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/opensource/library/os-worldos.html (2745 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Open Source for the Enterprise
		Open Source for the Enterprise provides a top to bottom view not only of the technology, but of the skills required to manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed.
		Open source software is software whose code is freely available to anyone who wants to change and redistribute it.
		Open source has entered a new area where it is being used as a marketing device, a collaborative software development methodology, and a business model.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/opensourceent (1112 words)

	Engaging with the Open Source Community (Part One)
		Open Source software is characterized by its licenses, such that any user who modifies the software and then redistributes it either must or may make available to those who receive it the source code that defines the software and their modifications.
		Many Open Source community members are paid for their work directly by those enterprises that employ them, and their contributions to the community are simply made in the course of their normal employment.
		Open Source communities are very capable of enforcing high standards among their contributors, either quickly training or losing any poor performers.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=10114 (2239 words)

	Cubicle Muses: Surviving in Open Source Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A healthy community resorts to policies and voting only when necessary and is flexible and forgiving enough to have someone muck around and break the build now and then without the world ending.
		While proposers of a change should have the decency to communicate ideas with the community, the community should have the decency to not unduly hamper sincere efforts.
		Open source projects thrive on volunteer effort and few want to volunteer for flame wars and extended voting battles.
	www.jadetower.org /muses/archives/000023.html (1288 words)

	Hermeneutical communities \| open source theology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a contemporary hermeneutical community we can correct one another but we cannot expect Augustine or Anselm or Aquinas to change their views in response to later criticism.
		So maybe it is as much about delivery, style, and contextualization as it is about content (assuming we have stripped away all the modern indulgences found in some of our doctrine, a whole other set of problems).
		The historical dimension keeps us in touch with the source; the conceptual dimension keeps us in touch with the spread of pragmatic interests as we seek to make sense of the gospel across the spectrum of contemporary human experience.
	www.opensourcetheology.net /node/106 (1668 words)

	Variations on Open Source: Gated Communities and Internal Open Source
		A source license can be used to create a gated community: Anyone agreeing to it is in the community, and anyone who does not is left outside the gate, unable to see and use the source code.
		Internal open source must also overcome similar social and political obstacles, but they are faced more directly in working to build a community of developers and users to collaborate on an application that the community is all interested in moving ahead.
		Because internal open source takes place totally inside a company, there is no way to know just how many companies are applying open-source principles to their internal development process.
	www.dreamsongs.com /IHE/IHE-32.html (1999 words)

	tim.oreilly.com -- Open Source Software
		Open Source Paradigm Shift -- This article is based on a talk that I first gave at Warburg-Pincus' annual technology conference in May of 2003.
		Well-designed open source projects have what you might call an architecture of participation, one in which the protocols between participating programs are well defined, so that the individual programs can work together despite being developed independently.
		The Sun Community Source License did not work." On the other hand, if it does work and it does enable some participation, what we'll have done is we'll have gotten the whole computer industry to move a little bit more toward a developer-centered world in which they recognize the power of individual developers.
	tim.oreilly.com /opensource (5898 words)

	C & T 2003 Workshop on Open SourceSoftware Movements and Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This workshop was held on 19 September 2003 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, at the International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2003.
		Open source communities as a model for competency rallying and resource marshalling.
		Implications of open source for the public sector, low-budget organizations, and developing countries.
	opensource.ucc.ie /ct2003 (559 words)

	Open Culture: Open Source Archeology
		The collaborative nature of open source communities also has its roots in academic collaboration, which is not surprising, since the free software movement began at MIT.
		In academic communities and open source communities, people collaborate and build on the ideas of others, ideas are evaluated based on their merits as assessed in peer reviews, and research or code is published in great detail allowing others to examine the study methodology or code.
		If the data is electronic and easily accessible with open formats using open source software, we know that the data can be retrieved and analyzed; however, with proprietary formats and software, the company who created the software may or may not be around in 50 years.
	opensourceculture.blogspot.com /2006/07/open-source-archeology.html (598 words)

	Open source communities
		The panel agreed the best way for a company to contribute to an open source project is to hire an engineer and get him or her on the project mailing list and contributing.
		Larry Wall mentioned the debate of whether it is better to have an open source project that is like an encyclopedia, where people can contribute their bits wherever they want or like a poem, where an author maintains a precise order and vision for the entire piece.
		Lessig asked the open source crowd earlier in the day to calculate the total amount they spend on cable television every year and donate a similar amount to the EFF.
	www.niallkennedy.com /blog/archives/2005/04/open_source_com.html (611 words)

	An Introduction to Open Source Communities \| cyberdash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As Kim points out in the introduction, "open source software communities are one of the most successful--and least undersood--examples of high-performance collaboration and community-building on the Internet today.
		Mockus, Fielding and Herbsleb's Two Case Studies of Open Source Development : Apache and Mozilla seems worth investigating.
		The case studies are light overviews which do not seem to extend much what I already understand about open source development; more useful to someone without any study of open source development communties.
	cyberdash.com /an-introduction-to-open-source-communities (198 words)

	Open Source Business » Open Source and Business Communities - Open Source Business News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Advocates of free and open source software have different reactions when they learn that businesses are showing interest in it.
		The thing is, working on open source projects would be a nice way to do some coding for practice (maybe if you are re-learning a programming language, or learning a new one for that matter), to build a reputation and gain contacts while adding new features to software or fixing some bugs here and there.
		Then again - one could argue that maybe being open source is the very reason that these software are being taken advantage of by companies - because they don’t really have the responsibility to pass it on to others.
	www.opensourcebiz.info /opensourcebiz/91.html (563 words)

	AC/OS: Analyst: (More on) Defining successful open source communities
		Hypothesis 4: Open source developments that have a strong core of developers but never achieve large numbers of contributors beyond that core will be able to create new functionality but will fail because of a lack of resources devoted to finding and repairing defects.
		The researchers make points about open source code quality, defect resolution response time, etc., but these are of secondary importance to me, so you'll have to read the full paper to see what they say.
		Unfortunately, for projects that start out commercial and then try to go open source, the code base often is riddled with interdependencies (as was the case with Mozilla).
	asay.blogspot.com /2005/09/analyst-more-on-defining-successful.html (968 words)

	Missional Communities \| open source theology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rather than new communities that are full of new believers, they often become small communities made up from tired and burned out Christians, fed up with church, finding the new community a place of idealism where everyone is practising hard core Christianity, compared to the compromising modality of the main church they have left.
		Their communities are places of safety from abuse, where their children can grow in faith without the knowledge of the abusing parent.
		Built into the history of missional communities, as we have seen, and the drawing on Anabaptists, means that many communities will find their identity in seeing state and church as evil.
	www.opensourcetheology.net /node/78 (2438 words)

	Open Source Business » Joining communities - Open Source Business News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These communities as far as I have seen are composed of different kinds of people.
		There are also activities that advocate free and open source software and it is interesting to interact with others in the community because you get to share stories and the conversations would be continuous and you could also get other insights out of the spontaneous threads of conversation that you could have.
		And it is good to make their acquaintance too because sometimes you learn a lot from each other and maybe it could also be the beginning of a lifetime of friendship or a collaboration on a project.
	www.opensourcebiz.info /?p=41 (797 words)

	Open Source and Community Source Projects
		From Open Source projects, which supports innovation and rapid development, to Community Source Licensing, which provides some infrastructure support around a community of common interest, Sun is committed to updating and improving Java technology.
		The GNOME project is has built an Open Source free, easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer.
		Sun Community Source License Principles Richard P. Gabriel and William N. Joy discuss the difference between Open Source licensing and Community Source licensing, and how to get the best of both worlds.
	java.sun.com /developer/jcpopensource (786 words)

	Info \| OSU Open Source Lab
		Drupal's infrastructure is provided by the OSU Open Source Lab, and we are grateful for the Drupal Project's donation to support our efforts to help the open source community.
		Open source has been a driving force in innovation, breaking all sorts of barriers between the end users and the development community, making them all equal partners.
		This canine adds another dimension to the already diverse world of open source by proving that to be involved in the OSS community you don't necessarily need to be tech savvy, or even human.
	osuosl.org (675 words)

	'Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference', Ariadne Issue 44
		A community of developers is not the same as a community of users; furthermore, the open source method may simply be a way for programmers to work together efficiently.
		Since open source enthusiasts have made much of the importance of Eric Raymond's "bazaar" style of development [9], we wanted to hear whether Agile is the same thing under another name, or relevant solely in a closed source environment.
		The belief that the success of open source is dependent on communities remained true, but we were reminded of just how wide a range of activities community can describe.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue44/oss-watch-rpt (1295 words)

	OpenSees - Open Source Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We in the open-source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
		Open Source is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative
		"Science of the New Renaissance" -- by Mark Stone, which argues that open source is a natural extension of the Western scientific tradition.
	opensees.berkeley.edu /OpenSees/open.html (184 words)

	Free and Open Source Java - Overview
		Sun makes the new OpenJDK Community TCK License available, putting the means to certify compatibility in the hands of the community, and opening the door to free, compatible Java SE implementations for GNU/Linux distributions.
		With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard in embedded devices, mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise.
		In his letter to the Java community, James Gosling, vice president and Sun Fellow, announces that the time to open source the Java SE and Java ME implementations is now.
	www.sun.com /software/opensource/java (613 words)

	Microsoft open to open source
		But the company has so far released two software-development tools to the open-source community, and it wants to continue the practice, a Microsoft platform manager told an industry group this week.
		"Open source has proven to be one effective way for delivering innovation and value," Frye told the group.
		The WSA panel spent more than an hour debating such issues as the benefits of the open-source development process, what types of software are right for open-source development, and the actual value to a company when it's able to see or modify the source code that's behind the software it buys.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/179256_msftopen25.html (844 words)

	the communiqué: Open Source Communities 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blue Oxen Associate's Eugene Eric Kim has posted his report "An Introduction to Open Source Communities" where he examines the patterns of collaboration and the general social computing lessons learned from free software developer communities surrounding the TouchGraph and Squirrelmail projects:
		Open source software communities are one of the most successful - and least understood - examples of high-performance collaboration and community-building on the Internet today.
		Other types of communities could benefit enormously from understanding how open source communities work.
	www.teledyn.com /node/311 (114 words)

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