SDN and Open Source

[craigcmehil]

This year during TechEd in Vienna, Boston and Bangalore we held a small discussion session in the SDN Clubhouse about "OpenSource projects" on SDN. Now I must admit that the results at each of the three were not overwhelming but they were significant and because of that I feel we can now move another step forward!

• Concept
• Implementation of environment
• Concept of project
• Requirements document
• Planning
• Development
• Testing
• Documentation
• Certification
• Release

At the moment that is the list of phases we've been working with. In terms of doing "OpenSource" projects here on SDN we have our concept in place now we are finalizing which environment to use and how to best implement that for not only this first project but all future ones.

For this specific project "Using the KM platform to create a weblog system" we have the general requirements together but those of you in the community who have asked to work on it will need to review and finalize that and move forward with the rest of the phases. SDN will continue to help guide things but the bulk of the work and project will be in your hands!

For those of you who want to help out feel free to email me and let me know and I will add you to the list of names we gathered at TechEd.

UPDATE: For this particular project and to see how well things get moving, we have decided to host this one on SourceForge.net itself then evauluate how it does for future projects. So the new home of this project will a combination of SDN and SourceForge.net. For now you can sign up at SourceForge.net and request to be added to the project, here.