1st Edition 2010
Chapters 1 and 2 free for review
Small scale OSS collaborative development designed to assist, save time and money for and enlighten interested readers. 70 pages for £3.49 (inc VAT £4.22), filled with things I have learned, ideas and tools I have used for DIASER® development over the past few years. High quality PDF formatted in TeX 12pt Times New Roman. Final build 23rd Jan 2010.
Excerpt: “This ebook is designed to help you gain some deeper insight into a small scale, technical Open Source software development collaboration. Perhaps you, the reader, have started, or are part way through, a project; or you are a manager or investor wanting to dig a little deeper into the inner workings of Open Source software development. As the designer, developer and author of a project I recently completed a stage of collaboration that took the software from a prototype to a beta-1 evaluation product. I’ll be talking you through the stages of development from initial conception to beta-1.” – Damian
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Author of WWTE
Damian has over eight years experience as a Linux systems administrator spanning different sectors. He is a Red Hat Certified Engineer and a member of the BCS The Chartered Institute for IT. He is currently working on a Higher Education contract through his company Interlinux Ltd. He has been programming in a Linux environment for 10 years.
Coincidentally, Mark Webbink, former general counsel of Red Hat, Inc. and presently a visiting professor of law at New York Law School, has written extensively about open source software licensing, working another sort of (legal IT) elephant; Walking With Elephants
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ebook Contents
1 Introduction
2 Share the idea I
3 Broadcast the idea I
4 Develop the idea
5 Create a prototype
6 Intellectual property
7 Share the idea II
8 Better prototype
9 Further funding
10 Release early release often
11 Communication is everything
12 Keeping it manageable
13 Broadcast the idea II
14 Tidy as you go
15 Measuring success
16 Share the idea III
17 Make luck, right place right time
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Reviews and feedback…
“Having just finished reading Walking With The Elephants, I am recommend it to anyone who is working on, or considering working on a small scale open source project. I currently work on a small distro, doing the majority of the work on my own and I found myself nodding and agreeing in several places. As well as finding that I have completed some of the same processes that the author did, it was interesting to see what may lay ahead, and finding what pitfalls have been encountered. I also found that the tone of the book was friendly, just the right side of informal, and unlike some books in this genre, not at all dry. All in all, I really enjoyed this book, and for someone like myself with a short attention span to sit and read the book in one sitting is quite something.”
David Purse – Lead developer of Simplicity Linux