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  1. How To Best Manage Open Source Projects?

    Ask · Programming · · posted by Cliff · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 73 comments
    This member, from the voiciferous Clan Anonymous Coward asks: "I work for a fairly large company, and I'm trying to convice the senior management to open source a piece of internally developed software that we rely upon, but that we don't directly profit from. This software enables our business model, but the software itself doesn't offer any particular competitive advantage. (Actually, to be a little more accurate, we would like to develop a system that replaces a commercial off-the-shelf solution that we're less than happy with, and open source that, so if you have anecdotal evidence or other ammunition for that particular argument, I'd be glad to hear it)." And this is something that I think more businesses should look into doing. If you use a piece of software that your business doesn't depend on, commercially, why not free it? (Read more...)

    "What I'm really looking for is advice on how to make the project successful as an open source intiative. Specific issues include, but aren't limited to:

    • Where/how should we host the project? Something internal? Something like SourceForge?
    • What management structures/tools are helpful? At minimum we'll need a source-code repository and a mailinglist/newsgroup, right? Anything else considered critical?
    • What are some effective control stuctures? Who should determine what makes it into an official release? By what procedure? Who should be able to add code to the tree? What kinds of resources do we need to commit to this project to make it effective?

    In short, what advice do you have on the mechanics and management of open source projects?

    I'm familiar with the standard technical and business arguments for open source software (including:

    and others), and feel I can articulate them pretty clearly, but that's not really what my question is about."

  2. Tim O'Reilly on Open Source

    Links · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 0 comments
    FigWig writes " Tim O'Reilly has written yet another article explaining the Open Source movement. This one, however, has a bunch of interesting historical tidbits and some new insights. From Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 Newsletter."