From fca59bea770346cf1c1f9b0e00cb48a61b44a8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:00:20 +0100 Subject: import of old now defunct presentation slides svn repo --- .../interact-community.mgp | 275 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 275 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2007/relation-community-tw2007/interact-community.mgp (limited to '2007/relation-community-tw2007/interact-community.mgp') diff --git a/2007/relation-community-tw2007/interact-community.mgp b/2007/relation-community-tw2007/interact-community.mgp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d04983 --- /dev/null +++ b/2007/relation-community-tw2007/interact-community.mgp @@ -0,0 +1,275 @@ +%include "default.mgp" +%default 1 bgrad +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +%nodefault +%back "blue" + +%center +%size 7 + + +How to interact with the +Free Software Community + + +%center +%size 4 +by + +Harald Welte + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Contents + + Introduction + What is Free Software? + What is the FOSS Community? + People / Groups involved + Development Process + Motivations + FOSS likes + FOSS disliks + Weak Points + Practical Rules + Thanks + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Introduction + +Who is speaking to you? + + an independent Free Software developer, consultant and trainer + who is a member of the free software community for 10 years + who has a background in both the community and the corporate crowd + who will therefore not have fancy animated slides ;) + +Why is he speaking to you? + + because every working day he suffers the lack of understanding between the community and the business world + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +What is Free Software? + + Software that is + available in source code + is licensed in a way to allow unlimited distribution + allows modifications, and distribution of modifications + is not freeware, but copyrighted work + subject to license conditions, like any proprietary software + READ THE LICENSE + +What is Open Source? + Practically speaking, not much difference + Remainder of this presentation will use the term FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +What is the FOSS Community? + + Diverse + any individual can contribute + no formal membership required + every project has it's own culture, rules, ... + International + the internet boasted FOSS development + very common to have developers from all continents closely working together + Evolutionary + developers come and go, as their time permits + projects evolve over time, based on individual contributions + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +People / Groups involved + + Really depends on size of projects + Small projects often a one-man show + Bigger project have groups / subgroups + Common Terms / Definitions + Maintainer + The person who formally maintains a project + Core Team / Steering Committee + A group of skilled developers who make important decisions + Subsystem Maintainer + Somebody who is responsible for a particular sub-project + Developer Community + All developers involved with a project + User Community + Users of the software who often share their experience with others + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Development Process + + "Rough concensus and running code" + Decisions made by technically most skilled people + Reputation based hierarchy + Direct Communication between developers + Not driven by size of a target market + Release early, release often + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Motivations + + gaining reputation (like in the scientific community) + gaining development experience with real-world software + solving problems that the author encounters on his computer + fighting for Free Software as ideology + work in creative environment with skilled people and no managers ;) + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +FOSS Community likes + + generic solutions + portable code + vendor-independent architecture + clean code (coding style!) + open standards + good technical documentation + raw hardware, no bundle of hardware and software sold as solution + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +FOSS Community dislikes + + monopolistic structures + e.g. intel-centrism + closed 'industry forums' with rediculous fees + e.g. Infiniband, SD Card Association + standard documents that cost rediculous fees + NDA's, if they prevent development of FOSS + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Weak Points of FOSS + + often way behind schedule (if there is any) + already too late when projects start + started when there already is a real need + often a lack of (good) documentation + programmers write code, not enduser docs... + strong in infrastructure, weak in applications + traditionally developers interested in very technical stuff + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 1. Much more communication + It's not a consumer/producer model, but cooperative! + Before you start implementation, talk to project maintainers + It's likely that someone has tried a similar thing before + It's likely that project maintainers have already an idea how to proceed with implementation + Avoid later hazzles when you want your code merged upstream + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 2. Interfaces + If there is a standard interface, use it + If insufficient: Don't invent new interfaces, try to extend existing ones + If there is an existing interface in a later (e.g. development) release upstream, backport that interface + Don't be afraid to touch API's if they're inefficient + Remember, you have the source and _can_ change them + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 3. Merge your code upstream + Initially you basically have to create a fork + Development of upsteram project continues sometimes at high speed + If you keep it out of tree for too long time, conflicts arise + Submissions might get rejected in the first round + Cleanups needed, in coordination with upstream project + Code will eventually get merged + No further maintainance needed for synchronization between your contribution and the ongoing upstream development + Don't be surprised if your code won't be accepted if you didn't discuss it with maintainers upfront and they don't like your implementation + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 4. Write portable code + don't assume you're on 32bit CPU + don't assume you're on little endian + if you use assembly optimized code, put it in a self-contained module + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 5. Binary-only software will not be accepted + yes, there are corner cases like FCC regulation on softradios + but as a general rule of thumb, the community will not consider object code as a solution to any problem + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 6. Avoid fancy business models + If you ship the same hardware with two different drivers (half featured and full-featured), any free software will likely make full features available on that hardware. + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +How to interact with the Free Software Community +Practical Rules + + 7. Show your support for the Community + By visibly contributing to the project + discussions + code + equipment + By funding developer meetings + By making cheap hardware offers to developers + By contracting / sponsoring / hiring developers from the community + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%page +GNU GPL - Copyright helps Copyleft +Thanks + + Thanks to + Alan Cox, Alexey Kuznetsov, David Miller, Andi Kleen + for implementing (one of?) the world's best TCP/IP stacks + Paul 'Rusty' Russell + for starting the netfilter/iptables project + for trusting me to maintain it today + Astaro AG + for sponsoring parts of my netfilter work + Free Software Foundation + for the GNU Project + for the GNU General Public License + +%size 3 + The slides of this presentation are available at http://www.gnumonks.org/ + + -- cgit v1.2.3