I wrote Majordomo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_(software)> specifically to manage all the mailing lists that SAGE wanted to host, when it was launched. I released it as open source almost as an afterthought, largely because I was writing a paper about it for the USENIX LISA conference <http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo.lisa6.pdf>, and figured that I should make the software available to anybody who wanted to look at it as they read the paper. I have always been amazed (and somewhat shocked) at how widely used Majordomo became; at its peak usage, in the mid-late 90's, we estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of Internet sites using it, based on optional "registration" emails generated by the installation script.
-Brent On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alan Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm putting together a talk encouraging system administrators to > contribute to open source projects, expand their idea of what > constitutes a contribution, and enable them to know that what they know > and what they can do has value to open source projects. > > So as part of that I'd like to tell stories of their contributions - > large and small - and how they helped and how they were uniquely valuable. > > Although I have a number of them, I'm sure there are more great stories > to tell. > > If you could make the time to drop me an email about one of the stories > you know about that would be awesome! > > To spark your imagination, here are a few types of contributions I've seen: > - code (shell scripts, C, Java, etc) > - patches - large or small > - testing > - test cases > - documentation > - evangelism > - recommending the project > - willingness to be a reference > - retweets, likes, and other social media > - suggestions for features > - ideas on how to do things > - insight into what's important > - pointers to other resources - RFCs, web pages with solutions > - suggestions on how to resolve an issue > - feedback on what's important > - understanding of how a tool or feature is being used > - user stories > - business rationale > - administering project servers > - continuous testing, integration, etc. > > If you have any stories about how system administrators/engineers have > been helpful in open source projects, please share them with me. If you > can pass this request along to others who you think would have good > stories to share, then that would also be awesome! > > > Thanks in advance! > > -- Alan Robertson > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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