Open Source Developer Lab Looking For Board Members

A reader writes: "I noticed that the Open Source Development Lab is looking for nominations and commentary on the Community Nominations to the Board. They've got some of the usual suspects on there, but will also take other suggestions. The organization was profiled by Nick Petreley a while back as well."

Comments

Re:Pseudocode for Project Name Generator.

[jamused]

No need for strong typing. You can do something like this in most modern high-level languages, although how easy it will be depends on the language. It's actually easier in languages with weak, or at least dynamic, typing, since you don't have to declare all those "this is an array of strings" variables.

Here's that pseudo-code translated into a working Python program:

# Program creates a very generic site title
# or project title - "Open Source Development Lab"
# a perennial favourite.

from random import choice

PreWordArray = ('GNU','g','k','Linux','OSS','Open Source','Free Software')
MainWordArray = ('Developer','Development','Programmer','Designer' ,'User','PHB','Engineer','Guru','Wizard')
PostWordArray = ('Lab','Site','Homepage','.com','.net','.org','Bui lder','Shack','Hangout','Project','Foundation','As sociation')

ProjectName = choice(PreWordArray) + choice(MainWordArray) + choice(PostWordArray)

print ProjectName

Python has often been compared to executable pseudo-code. Now you can see why.<wink>

This is great news

[danpbrowning]

I'm really excited to see some things starting to come about with this OSDL. Luckily, we're based out of Camas (30 minutes from the OSDL), so my company and I plan to be spending a lot of time with the OSDL (not to mention one of our employees is already enrolled in the university). So far I'm interested in the "Corporate Sponsor" option they have for $10,000, but I'm still waiting to tour the place and see what's going into it. We have a lot of open source apps and configurations that we'd like to test on some of the proposed 'big iron'. For example, I want to test out the new database clustering code that was checked into the PostgreSQL CVS a few weeks back. Maybe get a new IBM big iron in there and run a few dozen 'virtual linux's, with postgresql doing read only clustering, and then do some benchmarking. That would help us make the case for dropping some of the Oracle cluster technology for the open source solution.

Always the same names

[91degrees]

Are there only a dozen porogrammers in the open source world? I get the feeling that even this might be an exagereation. whats the point of a community if 99% of people are leeching of the other 1%?

Pseudocode for Project Name Generator.

[Jacques Chester]

Apologies for pseudocode. But deal.

// Program creates a very generic site title
// or project title - "Open Source Development Lab"
// a perennial favourite.

PreWordArray is array of strings
MainWordArray is array of strings
PostWordArray is array of strings

PreWordArray = (GNU,g,k,Linux,OSS,Open Source,Free Software)
MainWordArray =(Developer,Development,Programmer,Designer,User,P HB,Engineer,Guru,Wizard)
PostWordArray = (Lab,Site,Homepage,.com,.net,.org,Builder,Shack,Ha ngout,Project,Foundation,Association)

ProjectName is string

ProjectName = PreWordArray.getRandom + MainWordArray.getRandom + PostWordArray.getRandom

print ProjectName


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