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Linux Foundation Launches New Tools Supporting The Open Source Community (sdtimes.com)
"The Linux Foundation is launching a new platform designed to sustain open-source communities," reports SD Times:
CommunityBridge was announced at this week's Open Source Leadership Summit. The Linux Foundation plans to launch a number of tools to the open-source community throughout the next two years.
The platform is currently being released with Community Bridge Funding to help developers raise and spend funding; CommunityBridge Security for potential vulnerabilities and fixes; and CommunityBridge People for networking and making connections with mentors and mentees.
"In making the announcement, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said on stage at the conference that the Linux Foundation would match funding for any organization that donated funds to CommunityBridge projects," reports FierceTelecom.
"Following up on those announcements, Microsoft-owned GitHub said it would donate $100,000 to CommunityBridge and invited maintainers of CommunityBridge projects to take part in GitHub's maintainer program."
The platform is currently being released with Community Bridge Funding to help developers raise and spend funding; CommunityBridge Security for potential vulnerabilities and fixes; and CommunityBridge People for networking and making connections with mentors and mentees.
"In making the announcement, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said on stage at the conference that the Linux Foundation would match funding for any organization that donated funds to CommunityBridge projects," reports FierceTelecom.
"Following up on those announcements, Microsoft-owned GitHub said it would donate $100,000 to CommunityBridge and invited maintainers of CommunityBridge projects to take part in GitHub's maintainer program."
Now purpoting Microsoft!
Actually he's the one who cannot control Linus Torvalds. Makes you wonder who is really in charge of the Linux foundation.
Who cares. Probably would go better than his asserting that 2017 will be the year of the Linux Desktop.
Summary: "The Linux Foundation plans to launch"
I know RTFM is always the best thing to do, but Slashdot is looking more like a 3rd grader's website everyday.
What will these tools actually do, and how will they be better than just using some website?
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The Microsoft quote is particularly telling. This isn't about 'helping out the community.' This is about productizing and marketizing the community for the benefit of the corporate sponsors.
Put a fork in it, the Linux community is done.
i used google translate (marketing speak to english)
"bs bs bs bs bs bs more bs"
Anybody in the world easily can modify source code of open source software!
Meaning, each & every commonly used open source software, must be full of intentionally created & extremely hard to detect "superbugs", to use as secret backdoors, to any target computer system!!!
So, IMHO, anybody who really care about security of their computer system/network, should/must absolutely stayaway from all open source software!!!
Also, if someday all software became open source, it would mean, all kinds of software is free & that would really mean, all kinds of software is worthless & that would really mean, all programmers are worthless employees to all companies; meaning they would be paid minimum wage!!!
So, IMHO, any programmers who dont really want a future world where programmers are worthless minimum wage employees, should/must absolutely stayaway from contributing to all commonly/widely used open source software!!!
I was hoping someone would fork chrony and stuff the ntp code back in.
Oh, shit, I know why Poettering called it systemd. Its a play on words referring to AT&T Unix System V, which was always referred to as SysV Unix. And if he thought V was for vagina, I can see where his unchecked arrogance might have led him to naming the system after himself.
How to earn a living w/ OpenSource (or not): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Comments & ideas welcome!
What will these tools actually do, and how will they be better than just using some website?
On the one hand, I think the story shows that they (the Linux Foundation (which surprises me by continuing to exist (and to claim relevance))) sort of understand the problem, but on the other hand, it sounds like they still see it from the developers' perspective rather than holistically.
The fundamental problem is that time is valuable for EVERYONE. Yes, that includes the time of the developers, too, but not just them.
I think it is easier to respond in the form of a proposed solution approach that considers more of the involved parties. Drum roll, please. <ratatatatatatat> This is a job for a CSB! (Charity Share Brokerage)
Developers should be able to look for existing projects they want to work on. I put that first because the less glorious projects of maintenance and support need higher priority than they're getting. If the programmers want to create glorious new software, that's okay, too, but... The programmers should estimate up front how much time it's going to take and how much they want to be paid for that time. One of the most important jobs of the CSB will be the make sure the proposed projects are feasible in such ways as budget and schedule and resources (human and otherwise) and testing, too. Don't forget the testing.
On the users' (AKA donors') side, they should be able to find projects to support. Actually, a lot of time that may involve guiding the users to projects that support features the users want to continue using but that are in imminent need of funding. New features should be offered, too, but the key aspect is that unless there are enough donors who want to commit their money to support the feature (or to create the new feature), then nothing should happen just on hopeful speculation. For the users, the most important tasks of the CSB would be making the project proposals visible and assessing the results of the projects so that the results can be reported to the donors (and the world). That calls for making sure that each project has clear success criteria.
By the way, the free riders are NOT a problem. As long as ALL the costs are covered satisfactorily, they are just part of the donor pool. Or you could say that one metric of success is how many free riders become donors over time. (And yes, the loss of donors will slow you down, but that mostly means you need better projects to attract more donors--and at the same time you still know which projects are so crucial that they are getting the donors.)
Time's up and I'm flogging a dead horse anyway, but I still bid you ADSAuPR, atAJG. It's all IOttMCO, eh?
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These look like nice software. Too bad nobody will actually use them.
I tried searching on "CommunityBridge", and hit "Community Bridge", a company.
not happy with turning the linux kernel into corporatebitchOS incorporating buggy software like systemd which is developed only with business needs in mind (and now targeting to kill X with wayland using the same tactics, community development and betatesting of wayland related crap in order to have google, samsung, toyota and others deliver phones and infotainment systems without contributing to the dual code paths display/network on X11 ), the linux foundation now delivers a closed source honeypot to keep attracting talent but only the top ones get paid other than pennies in the grand scheme of things while at the same time all of them are subject to a CoC which is equivalent of corporate workplace rules to keep you quiet and only thinking about the software you write and not it's social implications
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/mar/13/lf-community-bridge/ is more understandable than the article we're pointed to in this /. story. This blog post also makes a number of interesting counterpoints worth considering.
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