Re: [CODE4LIB] Libstats is looking for project leaders
Nate, we use LibStats religiously here. I would be interested in joining the community - but similiarly to you, I don't have much time to spare. Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nathan Vack > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:42 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Libstats is looking for project leaders > > Hi all, > > I was recently involved in a discussion about the mechanics of > running an open-source project over at Library Web Chic, and I've > come to the conclusion that for a project to succeed, it really needs > to have at least a small, dedicated community. A community of one is > no community at all ;-) > > For the last few years, I've been in charge of running Libstats, a > small, GPL'd reference statistics tracking / knowledgebase project. > For a variety of reasons*, I'm unlikely to have a significant amount > of time to devote to the project ever again... and there are a lot of > things that could use improvement, ranging from squashing bugs to > improving documentation to adding features to answering support > questions. > > So... here's my call for volunteers. This project is quite small > (<6400 LoC), PHP / MySQL-based, and seems to work pretty well for the > majority of its users -- it'd be a great place for someone new to > open-source project management to learn the ropes. I'd especially > like someone outside our university to have some ownership of the > project. > > Interested? Head over to http://groups.google.com/group/libstats -- > that's where the party's at. > > Cheers, > -Nate Vack > Wendt Library > University of Wisconsin - Madison > > * Full disclosure: I'm also working on a hosted, closed-source > competitor to this project... so for me to stay solely in charge of > Libstats would be conflict-of-interest-central. That's not my only > reason, but it's a big one.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Libstats is looking for project leaders
:) For now, I'd suggest just joining the group. It's brand-new, but I'm hoping that's where support questions and such would be asked -- as opposed to my email alone. Just having a few other people see and (maybe) reply to those would raise the project's truck number[1] up above one. -n [1] http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?TruckNumber On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: Nate, we use LibStats religiously here. I would be interested in joining the community - but similiarly to you, I don't have much time to spare. Andrew
[CODE4LIB] Libstats is looking for project leaders
Hi all, I was recently involved in a discussion about the mechanics of running an open-source project over at Library Web Chic, and I've come to the conclusion that for a project to succeed, it really needs to have at least a small, dedicated community. A community of one is no community at all ;-) For the last few years, I've been in charge of running Libstats, a small, GPL'd reference statistics tracking / knowledgebase project. For a variety of reasons*, I'm unlikely to have a significant amount of time to devote to the project ever again... and there are a lot of things that could use improvement, ranging from squashing bugs to improving documentation to adding features to answering support questions. So... here's my call for volunteers. This project is quite small (<6400 LoC), PHP / MySQL-based, and seems to work pretty well for the majority of its users -- it'd be a great place for someone new to open-source project management to learn the ropes. I'd especially like someone outside our university to have some ownership of the project. Interested? Head over to http://groups.google.com/group/libstats -- that's where the party's at. Cheers, -Nate Vack Wendt Library University of Wisconsin - Madison * Full disclosure: I'm also working on a hosted, closed-source competitor to this project... so for me to stay solely in charge of Libstats would be conflict-of-interest-central. That's not my only reason, but it's a big one.
