Thorny,
I think this is a great endeavor, I hope we can start to find synergies
between this new space and the DSpace community. I certainly hope we can
combine our efforts on the wiki and communication fronts so that it can
foster greater collaboration between the groups. I know we on the DSpace
side are always looking for better tools for managing the community. I for
one think that settling on one wiki, Confluence, can be an opportunity to
bring the communities much closer together. Chris setup a space for us
sometime back and I did some initial experiments with porting mediawiki to
confluence that seemed promising (but need more resources to get
completed)...
I will add that it would be great to see us start to place the DSpace
community into some of this work you doing. For instance, The following
diagram would be well served to include a top level trunk/branch with the
DSpace community within it.
http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FEDORACREATE/Structure+of+Duraspace
Perhaps a forum that bridges the two groups can help us start to work
together more. One of the key aspects of DSpace is the
constant Asynchronous nature of its collaboration. Will a large community
around the world, everyone making a fixed meeting time is not always
possible. To foster collaboration, its important to find avenues that
discussion avenues are not restricted temporally/geographically.
Recently in our own IRC meetings, we decided that the idea of subject
meetings once a month would be very valuable. I think having some of these
meetings be aligned with the fedora teams subject meetings such that both
groups would be present in the topics (DSpace 2.0 / Fedora GSoC project, JCR
Connectors, DSpace 1.x / Fedora, Solr, etc) would be a great initial
starting point.
Cheers,
Mark
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:07 AM, thornton staples <
[email protected]> wrote:
> In the continuing effort to move the Fedora project from being the funded
> development project were it started, to a completely community-based effort,
> I invite you to visit the new "Software" page on the Fedora Commons web site
> (http://www.fedora-commons.org/software).
>
> Chris Wilper, Matt Zumwalt and I developed this new way of looking at the
> Fedora Create community as a whole effort, including both the Fedora
> Repository Service, and all of the software that everyone is developing on
> top of it, in one complete view. Please think of it as a starting point, a
> suggestion for how to proceed. From the software page down, everything is in
> the Fedora wiki. We want to take a pragmatic view of all of this, the
> structure we have organized can change as appropriate. We will follow the
> "wiki gardening" approach, that encourages everyone to add the information
> that they think is important, not worrying too much about the formalities.
> Wiki gardeners will come back and re-organize the wiki, weeding and
> transplanting as necessary and desirable.
>
> The view of the Fedora Create community is presented by sorting the
> software development into categories to try to make it more manageable.
> These categories can be tweaked and changed, or added to as necessary. In
> general, each category includes a registry where everyone can list software
> that they have developed that they would like to share, as well as areas
> where we can discuss hot topics, share information about standards, list
> good ideas for new software, etc. I strongly encourage everyone to tell us
> about the software that you have developed, are developing or would like to
> see developed, in each category. Please use the registry to list software
> projects that are underway, as well as those that are created; it is very
> useful to all of us to know what people are working on, as well as what is
> available now.
>
> The core Fedora Repository Service must be treated as a special case in
> this view of the software and the developers community. It is the foundation
> for everything that we are doing. We have a committers group that will be
> the keepers of the core. I am very pleased to be able to say that Chris has
> rapidly developed this group to be more community-oriented already. We have
> 11 committers now, 8 of them are not DuraSpace employees. The next release
> of Fedora, 3.3, is being managed by Kai Strnad (thanks to FIZ Karlsrhue for
> giving his time!) and is planned to come out by the end of the year.
>
> It would be really good to begin to consolidate our wiki around this
> evolving model. We have begun to move stuff from the developers forum area
> already. The area for ideas and discussion around the repository service is
> still being developed, but the rest of the Fedora Create area is ready to
> go. I have moved and updated much of the content model stuff already, and
> Dan Davis is working on getting all of the info related to workflow issues
> moved. If any of you has information that you have been building on the
> wiki, especially recently, I encourage you to find a place on the new pages
> for it. If you don't see a good place for it right now, let me know.
>
> Lastly, if any of you out there are particularly good at, and/or interested
> in, helping keep up the wiki more generally, both in weeding and
> transplanting, as well as in guiding the on-going process to develop better
> organization, please talk to me. I think that we could all benefit from an
> organized wiki-gardeners group!
>
> Thorny
> ____________________________________
> Thornton Staples
> Director of Community Strategy and Alliances
> Director of the Fedora Project
> DuraSpace, Inc.
> [email protected] (202) 684-6952
> skype: thorny.staples www.duraspace.org
>
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