Open Source Institute Updates - February 2006 |
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The OSIX Project System
OSI's goals have always been to provide a community for programmers to learn and practice their art, and in this regard, we have been successful. Netizens from all over have joined to take on the GEEK Challenges, l
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The OSIX Project System
OSI's goals have always been to provide a community for programmers to learn and practice their art, and in this regard, we have been successful. Netizens from all over have joined to take on the GEEK Challenges, learn new skills from the articles that the community publishes, and test their skills against our collection of tests. I realized some time ago that we are very close to fulfilling our initial vision. I have a server that is perfectly suited for such an endeavour, and after making hosting arrangements, I'm pleased to announce that we are taking steps to fulfil this vision. We are developing a project hosting system similar to SourceForge. Our goal is to provide the resources and tools necessary for open source development projects to grow and succeed. The system will be open to the public, and hopefully, it will be where CyberArmy brigades and members turn to host open source projects of all kinds.
Initially, we will be using the Horde Framework, and in this early stage, it has provided a lot of the tools that we feel are needed when managing developers and projects. It will be complete with calendaring and task management across different projects in which members are involved, bug tracking and repository browsing and access for visitors and developers, respectively. After we have this initial framework up and running, we will be changing the look and feel as well as adding additional functionality that we feel is necessary for successful collaboration and not to mention publicity for the projects that we host.
Before a fully public release, we will be opening the system up for testing for a limited number of projects. Preference will be given to unique and possibly killer applications. These first projects and its members will help us improve and publicize the system, and hopefully, people from all over will be coming to us to help projects and use the software that the projects hosted on this system have developed.
In my opinion, the key to a successful open source project is that it's unique and offers features and functionality not available to other projects. As there are already a lot of open source projects out there tackling a lot of different problems and applications, it is key to set your individual project apart and make people want to use your software over another project's software. Only then will you attract the developers and testers necessary to move your project further. Hopefully, this system will provide the tools necessary for you to create and manage that successful project.
This system is not limited to unique and/or killer applications. It will be open to anybody and everybody, and it provides us all with a chance to develop our ideas and improve the productivity of our communities. I'm glad to be spearheading this project, and if you have any questions, comments or ideas for the system or the projects contained therein, please feel free to contact me personally, and I will forward it to our development team, which currently consists of think12, sefo, w0lf and bb.
The project system is currently in a planning/alpha phase, but hopefully in the coming months we will be at a beta stage awaiting testers. So polish those project ideas and get ready to code!
SAJChurchey
This article was originally published by CyberArmy.net in the CyberArmy Library.
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