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\title[netlabs.org - The Crux with the Community]
{netlabs.org - The Crux with the Community}

\subtitle
{How Open Source Development does (not) work}

\author[Adrian Gschwend]
{Adrian~Gschwend}

\institute[netlabs.org]
{
netlabs.org - Open Source Software for OS/2 and eCS
}

\date[17.11.2006]
{Warpstock Europe 2006, Cologne, Germany}

\subject{OS/2 and eCS development}
\keywords{OS/2 eCS eComStation}

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\section{Motivation}

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\frametitle{Why this Presentation?}
        \begin{itemize}[<+->]
      \item 9 years of experience with netlabs.org
      \item Many ups and downs 
      \item Still just a few contributors
      \item Successful and less successful software projects meanwhile
      \item Big ongoing project: \textit{The Voyager Project}
    \end{itemize}
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\section{The Community}
\subsection{The Present}

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\frametitle{netlabs.org Today}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Core team of maybe 20-30 people
  \item Around 130 people in the netlabs.org database
  \item Many of them are on \texttt{\#netlabs} IRC channel during the day
  \item Quite a lot of mailinglists, mirrored on gmane.org for newsgroup/web
  access 
  \item Pretty old webpages, out of date, not updated by many project leaders
  \item TRAC projects are often missing on netlabs.org webpage
  \item People do not know where to look
  \item Adrian gets contacted directly by users and developers, bottleneck
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Contributions to netlabs.org}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Most work is done by a few developers
  \item Most of them have more than one project running
  \item Just a few users contribute in a form
  \item Some support with sponsoring units
  \item Just very few full time contributors/programmers
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{The Community Today}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Various usergroups around the world
  \item Warpstock events around the world
  \item OS/2 VOICE
  \item EDM/2
  \item SSI/Mensys \& eComStation
  \item Most projects suffer from the same problem
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Conclusion}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item The real community is very small
  \item Quite a lot just use it
  \item Situation could be improved
\end{itemize}
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\subsection{A possible Future}
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\frametitle{Some Ideas}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Team Netlabs, like TeamOS2 and alike
  \item Advocacy group, we-feeling
  \item Membership and yearly contribution
  \item Could be money or time contribution
  \item Translate presentations, show videos etc.
  \item Represent netlabs.org on workshops, press, fair\ldots
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{netlabs.org Website}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Up to date information
  \item New CMS, new server
  \item TRAC fully integrated into CMS
\end{itemize}
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\section{Developers}
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\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Project tracking (TRAC/xTracker)
  \item Subversion
  \item Generalized build/release framework
  \item Consistent feeling between projects
  \item Clear structure:
  \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item TRAC for developers
    \item netlabs.org CMS for users
    \item bugtracking on one place
    \item Same procedure for same things
  \end{itemize}
  \item Liberal license
\end{itemize}
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\section{Big Business}
\subsection{Learning from other Projects}

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\frametitle{What does \textbf{not} work}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Many, many open source projects
  \item Often just proof of concept
  \item The source is the only documentation\texttrademark
  \item No design
  \item Yet another\ldots
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Money\ldots}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item There are just a few successful OSS projects without funding
  \item There are many which do get funded:
  \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item Mozilla
    \item OpenOffice
    \item Eclipse
    \item OpenBSD
    \item Ubuntu
    \item Linux Kernel
    \item \ldots
  \end{itemize}
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\subsection{Conclusion}
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\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Every single one can contribute
  \item Every single one can contribute
  \item Every single one can contribute
  \item We are netlabs.org
  \item If we act as a real community everything is possible
  \item It is possible to be a successful niche
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Next Steps for You}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item Team/Usergroups: Discuss possible Team Netlabs idea
  \item Users: Would you join such a team?
  \item Users: Could you contribute somewhere?
  \item Users: Are you a marketing specialist?
  \item Developers: Can we help you?
  \item Developers: Release management support needed?
  \item Cool group with sexy project is looking for funding \texttrademark
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Q\&A}
        Questions?
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