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Noirin Shirley – Baby steps in Open source development at apache
- 90 projects, starting with every letter but “y”
- various types of projects
- No corp members or contributers
- Decisions only on mailing list
- From inside – national building
- Not insistent on using specific technology
- How to do open source the apache way
- need to cooperate, follow directions, communicate,
- reading docs, look at existing coding style, read list for a while
- Mind you manners, careful of mis-understandings
- communicate clearly – email guidelines
- apache incubator – projects first entry, existing codebase, time to get up and running, legal and other
- formal procedures
- play well with others, consensus on change to code etc, can’t veto a release (just 3 members needed)
- Google summer of code.
- Apache mentoring program
- Accepts none pure “code” projects like documentation, testing
- Working with formal education, two classes of students being mentored
- Meetups encouraged, works well if you meet people in person
