[hackerspaces] Unified Open Source / Open Development dashboard for projects

[Jarkko Moilanen]

Quoting Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw.cz>:

>   Hi!
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 06:04:56PM +0300, Jarkko Moilanen wrote:
>> This is not exactly about hackerspaces, but more like about open
>> source stuff, but I take the risk to be labelled as spammer.
>>
>> We (just a few devs and bunch of academics) have been cooking an
>> idea of unified open source / open development dashboard.
>>
>> Here's some more information about the idea:  
>> http://blog.ossoil.com/2011/10/10/unified-universal-open-source-dashboard/
>>
>> I did post link to this blog entry at some IRC channels and other
>> mailing lists to get people involved. Would love to hear any
>> feedback about it from your eyes.
>
>   AIUI, your aim could be summed up as "open source project data
> collection, aggregation and presentation in a stream-like interface
> and various other views"? I.e. no hosting of any actual data? And

Yes, this would use metadata only.

> this would be automatic and in theory need not involvement of any
> of the developers? Would any part of it be actually editable? Just
> the "social metadata" or some hard data too?
>

The idea is to make everything as automated as possible, so that  
developers do not need to manually input data, well not all at least.  
I admit that initial idea is to enable only discussion like  
cooperation inside this service. Otherwise people can do cooperation  
the usual way. This solution would not by no means be a all inclusive  
platform, more like a sophisticated view to open source projects from  
one point and to serve purposes of other players in the game. By other  
players I mean industry and users. But the concept needs more  
development and that's why I asked for opinions. :)


>   (I admit I did not read the whole blogpost. You need a short and sweet
> and clear summary not using the word "dashboard". :-)
>

Yeah, I know :) I have tendency to write in lengthy manner and mixing  
terms and such. I'll work on that.

>   Have you investigated the alternatives? What about Ohloh? It's kind
> of silly that Ohloh itself is closed-source, but at least you should be
> able to make use of Ohcount and OhlohSCM. There is also the CIA
> (http://cia.vc/) which can be used for realtime commit tracking of many
> projects.
>

I did hear about ohloh in some discussion after I posted the blog  
entry. Need to dig deeper with that. And yes, compared to that, this  
would be open source and community-driven effort. Although  
community-driven, corporate support would be nice but not mandatory.  
Just to clarify, I do not work for any company, I do like and try to  
foster freedom (from companies) as much as possible, but still I would  
not shut the door for companies to get involved. Just my personal  
opinion and view.

/Jarkko

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  Jarkko Moilanen (+358 45 8877 150)
  M.Soc.Sc. (Political Science)
  PhD Student, Information studies, University of Tampere
  Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com/
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  Founder of MeeGo Network Finland, http://meegonetwork.fi
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