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OSS Watch Workshop: Engaging Developers with Open
Source Projects
Date: Friday, 9 October 2009, 09:30 - 16:00
Venue: Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford
For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2009-10-09/programme.xml
Why should software developers who create local customisations of open source
software take the further step of submitting their changes back to the main
project? While it takes more effort initially, having these changes integrated
in the project becomes efficient in the long run: local modifications need not
be re-applied at every upgrade, and the project takes over their
maintenance. Also, by building up a record of useful contributions, one
can gain influence in shaping the project's future.
This OSS Watch workshop will present this argument in greater detail,
explaining how developers engaged in customisations of open source software
should make these contributions. Some examples of projects that benefited from
this type of engagement of their developers with open source software will be
presented by people directly involved in these processes.
The event is free, and open to all.
Programme:
09.30 Registration
10.30 Welcome
10.40 Presentation: Scott Wilson (Wookie; University of
Bolton) will give an overview of why and how one would contribute back to an
open source project.
11.25 Break
11.45 Presentation: Dr. Ian Boston (Apache Software
Foundation, CARET; University of Cambridge) will speak about how projects
engage with contributors, addressing this from the point of view both of
contributors and of the projects.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Presentation/Demo: Mark Johnson (Taunton's
College) will describe in detail the rationale and process behind making a
contribution, based upon his own successful experience of contributing to the
Moodle project.
14.15 Break
14.35 Plenary session
15.20 Conclusions
15.50 Close
Attendees are invited afterwards to an informal gathering at a pub, with
members of OSS Watch.
Yours sincerely,
Amir Nettler,
OSS Watch
www.oss-watch.ac.uk
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