On 01/05/2012 04:23 PM, Orion Vianna wrote:
On 01/05/2012 02:00 PM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
Toughs on last nights meeting "Getting Involved in Open Source
<http://Getting%20Involved%20in%20Open%20Source>"
We had an amazing talk and turn out last night, with 37 filling the
room at our new location at Vassar.
My highlights:
* If you don't have one get a github (https://github.com/) ID, it can
tell prospective employers what you have worked on. The new center of
OSS on the internet.
https://bitbucket.org/ Is also pretty nice. 5 users for free and
includes unlimited public & private repositories
There are lots of ways to have git hosting, including doing it yourself.
The point I was trying to make around github was that it is *a* center
of gravity in open source [1] and it is one of the first stops future
employers look in the software space [2].
For your open source development, I personally think you should stay
away from hosting services that let you have private repositories. It's
way too easy to say to yourself "oh, well, that's not quite ready yet,
I'm not going to make it public." Push early, push often, make it public.
1. http://www.slideshare.net/sogrady/survival-of-the-forges
2. http://code.dblock.org/github-is-your-new-resume
-Sean
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