Archive for March, 2007

Dion Almaer wrote yesterday a blog entry with a list of criteria that, in his opinion, make an open source project truly community-driven (which is, of course, a Good Thing(tm)).

I had some apprehension, while reading the blog entry’s title, because, of course, we want to be community-driven (that’s one of the criteria BTW), but what if we had forgotten something important?

Fortunately, the short answer is “of course we are community-driven”. With Dion’s criteria, I can confidently self-grade us at A+ (or 20/20, for french-educated people). Here are the criteria and my comments:

If you don’t have any commiters from outside of your company. You probably aren’t community driven.

Half of the commiters in the Nuxeo project are not Nuxeo employees, and we are actively trying to recruit more contributors.

If you didn’t spend time cleaning up documentation for the community when you opened it up. You

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As some people know already, I have participated in the creation of Ouverture (né “Open Source Valley”), the Competitiveness cluster dedicated to Free and Open Source Software in the Paris area.

We are still waiting for the official stamp of the French Government, which will start the operational life of the cluster by bringing Government funding to R&D projects carried out by the cluster’s members: public research labs, universities and companies. Since there seems to be some, let’s say “bureaucratic delays”, we had decided to start some activities that don’t depend on the official stamp, namely bringing together all the cluster’s participants to brainstorm ideas for projects that would be later submitted to the cluster.

This first event was christened “BrainCamp 2007” and happened today at ENSTA, a Parisian engineering school that has been a pionneer in the use of open source software in higher education in France.… Read more