Besides SourceForge, Google Code is a great hosting environment for open source projects, and also github is becoming very popular.
Cheers Paul On 2011-03-03, at 11:54 AM, Robert Hollingsworth wrote: > Hello, > I'm giving a presentation at the GITA conference in > Grapevine TX in April, as part of the OSGEO track > there. (Audience: electric/gas/water utilities, > telecommunications, etc.) > > Subject of the talk: highlights of management of a > project as open-source, especially where that differs > from software development in the single-company, > closed-source model. > > Although the audience is likely to be mostly consisting > of non-software developers, I'll be calling on these very > people to team up with each other and with in-house > and/or consulting software engineers -- across company > lines -- to launch, build, and maintain open-source > apps that address needs in their respective subject > areas. > > I've got a fair amount of research to do to compile this > information -- what apps and file structures comprise a > viable project server, presenting all that through the > project web site, etc. > > It has occurred to me that it would be useful to create > an "Open-Source Project Starter Kit," a file structure > consisting of the means to create and maintain a > project, with none of the actual content. It's skeleton > website definition would simply point at the > unpopulated management components. > > A quick google suggests there are tools out there > addressing some of this. And there's Sourceforge, of > course. > > But if OSGEO were to create such a kit, it could be > constructed so that the resulting projects match many of > the criteria for qualifying as OSGEO member projects > later. > > Any ideas out there on the feasibility of something like > this, how to construct, etc.? I know a starter kit such as > this would be most attractive to the GITA audience I'll > be speaking to if it as close as possible to being a > one-button operation. > > Thanks, > Robert H. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss __________________________________________ Paul Spencer Chief Technology Officer DM Solutions Group Inc http://research.dmsolutions.ca/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss