Dear Colleagues,
I understand from a professional colleague, who referred me to this list,
that there are some experienced open source programmers here. I am in the
early stages of planning for a conference session/open source project in
June 2013 for a different professional library organization.
Donna,
The Hydra Project is a distributed, open source software project that started
in the library community for digital asset management. We have spent a fair
amount of time defining and polishing our approach to many of the questions you
have asked about your proposed project.
You may fi
The software for this project is clearly just one part of an ambitious
and interesting venture. The first question I'd ask is how you plan to
assemble the programming team for this. Do you have the resources to
hire core people, or will you be counting entirely on volunteers? Doing
a big project on
At Fri, 7 Dec 2012 14:58:11 -0500,
Donna Campbell wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I understand from a professional colleague, who referred me to this list,
> that there are some experienced open source programmers here. I am in the
> early stages of planning for a conference session/open source p
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> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 3:28:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open source project questions
> Hi Donna,
>
> For understanding free/open source software development processes,
> you
> can’t beat Karl Fogel’s book, Producing open
My take is in the quote.
Cary
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Donna Campbell wrote:
> 1. What kind of skill sets (esp. programming) should I be seeking?
The first and foremost skill you'll need is vision along with the
ability to articulate it. Next you need management and organization.
If you
