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From: Terry H. <ha...@an...> - 2005-03-05 17:39:37
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Welcome to the newly activated Narya Project Discussion list! -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com |
From: <ben...@id...> - 2004-05-25 08:34:17
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Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________ |
From: Terry H. <ha...@an...> - 2004-01-15 02:08:24
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I changed the name of the software to "Narya Forum and Project Incubator" a long time ago (unfortunately some people took the name "Spacelift" a little too literally), but I just recently actually moved it so that the "unix-name" will be more obvious. I also have updated the CVS with the most recent source tree for Narya, which reflects the major rewrite I was doing over 2003. It's still not finished, but the basic structure is in place now, so it's not unreasonable to start the CVS here. The SF project has been moved to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/narya-project and the 'spacelift' project is being retired. The new official home page is http://www.narya.net (this has been around for awhile, actually). If you are interested in following up the Narya project further, you should sign up for the new mailing list at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/narya-project-discuss For people with development experience, especially in Python and/or Zope, you will be interested in looking at the CVS which can be browsed online at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/narya-project/ (you can also get there from the SF summary page mentioned above). I have completed most of the organizational changes I described in my "Narya 2003: A Progress Report" paper at ISDC 2003 in San Jose. However, the software is not yet in working order, which is why there is no file release. At this point, you can add a Narya site to your Zope instance, but even basic functionality like signing up users and posting does not yet work (that is, work again). I am continuing to work on these problems, but I wanted to publish the work to the public CVS now that the major organizational changes have been made to the source tree. Among the new design elements, you will find that Narya now uses "Component Racks" to load pluggable elements such as Contrib types, Views, Editors, Filters, and Crawlers. Most of the important objects that 3rd party developers would be likely to interract with now have "Interfaces" -- thus, for example, if you want to know the public interface for the "Topic" class, look at "TopicAPI". The "API.py" module neatly gathers all of these into one module -- you can import this and examine the interfaces using the interface documentation methods (see Zope's "Interface" module for more information on this technique). And the other major improvement is the introduction of *unit tests* to independently test components of Narya. This should be a major QA improvement and make development go a little faster. In short, we are rapidly approaching the point where I can reasonably accept help from other developers, which is of course, the point where open-source development starts to pay off. Narya development has been slow -- I have not been able to put as much time into as I would like, real life intruding as it often does. ;-) But, I'm very satisfied to be reaching a point where I can start sharing the fruit of my labor, even if it is still not quite complete. Oh, and just in case you have no experience with programming, but are lucky enough to have money to spare, I am now able to take donations to help pay for my development time (until Jan 1st, I was still being paid by a major contract from Caltech, but that's gone now -- so I'm still looking for (A) a new contract, (B) foundation funding for Narya, or (C) lots and lots of private donations to keep me going. ;-D ) Yeah, yeah, I know. You're all broke, too. But I thought I'd mention it. ;-) Also, of course, I'm sure some of you listened to Bush's "Space Initiative" speech today. Not sure if it has any relevance to what we're doing here, but it might. He mentioned forming a commission of public and private sector folks to consider implementation plans. I wonder if there's any possibility of us getting a report sent into that commission on the roll of *Independent Space* developers and entrepreneurs in future space development? Anyway, please direct follow-ups to nar...@li... like the Reply-to header says. I'll probably complete the shutdown of the 'spacelift' site and mailing list towards the end of the month, in order to give everybody a little time to adjust. As always, thank you very much for your interest in the project! Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com |