Inside the Open Source Lab

FreeFooOpenFighter writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. They currently provide hosting for an impressive list of projects including, among many others, the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, and Gentoo Linux. According to the informative article, they plan to continue to donate hosting with their two OC48s to FOSS projects meeting their criteria."

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here's some info

[Anonymous Coward]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1553110&perpage=40&pagenumber=1/

Re:sf.net

[keesh]

Sourceforge couldn't even begin to handle a project as big as, say, the main Gentoo CVS tree. Gentoo alone has more hardware at OSL than all of sourceforge put together.

Re:Being ontopic..

[ramereth]

Where in the world did you get this idea? They just hired another student infact to help out with infrastructure related needs. What is so closed about it? They even had an http://osuosl.org/news_folder/open_house open house not too long ago. Apparently you didn't make it to find out. Also, Scott/Corey/Jason are all well rounded intelligent people have do an excellent job. Kudos on them getting this going!

Re:sf.net

[bangzilla]

re: "They're just using the OSS community to get them visibility with corporate sponsors" - not so. When SF.net was launched no one knew how successful it would turn out. First and foremost the objective of SF.net is to do the best it can for the community. Yes money is needed to keep the site running (as Patrick says in his post, SF.net has *lots* of hardware, and consumes much bandwidth).

The developers that were laid off were not fired for completing 1.0 of SF.net as you imply. They were laid off along with many others when VA Linux got out of the hardware business. It had zero to do with SF.net, and all to do with the .com crash. We know what we've done for the Open Source community today -- what have you done?

Please - just the facts....