Remember, this talk is this week. Hope to see you there.
What: The Zynot Project
Who: Zach Welch, Zynot Project Leader
When: Saturday, November 22, 1:00
Where: EFN, 43 W. Broadway, Eugene
Zach Welch will present a set of ideas relating to his work on
producing a fork of the Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) distribution for
The Zynot Foundation (www.zynot.org), starting by introducing a number
of the fundamental problems that must be overcome to succeed in
developing divergent open source projects. The solutions proposed lead
to a proverbial "forking toolkit", with which anyone can fork anything.
While verging on herecy, this toolkit would not offer a simple
unidirectional means for effectively forking projects. Necessarily, it
would include the means for both redistributing locally made changes as
well as integrating further changes available from the myriad of other
"like-forks". This is not far from open software development today.
In addition, an integrated Open-Lean software development toolkit
(www.openlean.org) will aim to provide the capacity for managing the
resulting distributed network of contributors toward producing both high
quality products and sustainable economic growth. In the end, the
toolkits should open the door for individuals or small teams to maintain
"micro-market forks" of their favorite distributions with little effort.
Zach is the Managing Member of Superlucidity Services, LLC., a
Corvallis-based company working to introduce sustainable software
development processes for open source and free software. If all goes
well, Superlucidity's next product will be a working version of the
forking toolkit and used to facilitate Zynot's fork of Gentoo Linux.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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