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Analyzing Firefox’s Success
September 30, 2013
Not all open-source projects are created equal. Some are kilobytes, some are gigabytes. Some last just a couple months, some last decades. Some are organized poorly, others are paradigms of the collaborative process. Firefox has been around for quite a long time. Its roots are in Netscape, a browser which helped drive the idea of […]
RocPy Was Lively
September 23, 2013
Recently I attended a meetup dedicated to Python. A group of people so passionate about something, they go out of their way, on a regular basis, to meet together and discuss it. It’s beautiful to see people so happy about this. It’s even greater that the platform that allows these people to connect was created […]
It’s Not a Feature, it’s a Bug
September 23, 2013
Part of the open source way is community. Helping out and giving back. So I was happy to do just that as an assignment which was part of my studies in free and open source software. The assignment was to find a bug in an open source project and submit a patch to fix the […]
Open Source, Quiz 1
September 11, 2013
What are the titles of each Pillar? Open exchange, participation, rapid prototyping, meritocracy, community. What are the titles of each General Principle? Make it interesting and make sure it happens. Scratch an itch. Minimize how many times you have to reinvent the wheel. Solve problems through parallel work processes whenever possible. Leverage the law of […]
“The Success of Open Source” Succeeds
September 9, 2013
Who Steven Weber What The Success of Open Source Where http://hfoss-fossrit.rhcloud.com/static/books/Weber-SuccessofOpenSource-Chap3.pdf When October 31, 2005 The Gist Weber analyzes brief history of Linux and how it is a model for open-source development. There is a detailed overview of core practices and procedures of people in the community, and a broader overview of what the community […]
Baby’s First Development Post
September 4, 2013
“Hello World” is too cliche. This is going to be a blog chronicling my experiences as a developer and designer. What spurred the creation of this blog? My class at Rochester Institute of Technology, “Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development.” As you might guess, the class covers the best practices and processes of creating […]