Personally i think every part of the cycle is critical, especially the documentation. And you forgot to include in your list an even more critical part - the guys who test. The problem is from my experience the software industry as a whole in Kenya is dominated by developers. Guys who specialize in analysis & design, documentation, testing & quality assurance are much fewer. Ergo it follows that a larger percentage of OSS contribution would be programming. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I wrote a post a while back about the number of developers per capita compared to the west, im convinced it has a direct corelation to how involved guys can be in projects that many would call recreational. there is always an odd one here working on KDE, an odd one there working on a Cyber timer, yet another doing some contribution to Drupal. Personally i know two guys deeply involved in Joomla core in my village:-)
the question though is:
does production (1,2 and3) make you more a contributor to open source than documentation for instance? you only need to check sourceforge for the many projects with code but only one user / developer / documentation expert.....
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Very aptly put. But the question arises - does Kenya actively contribute in all these avenues to the production of open source software? There is no doubt that we are overwhelming consumers, but are we contributors?
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:24 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Coming into this late (but wishing to pass a point across), here is what i think @aki youre missing about the spirit of open source.
1: Some think of the code. 2: Some design, write the code. 3: Some design some fancy logos. 4: Some handle the web host where the code is hosted. 5: Some pay for any of this. 6: Some Download the code and install on their machines. 7: Some use that code from (6) above and never get back at 1, 2 & 3. 8: some get back to these guys. 9: some set up a system for (8) to get back to (1,2 or 3). 10: Some volunteer to organize this (9) in a way that (1,2and3) can understand. 11: Some cant understand (1 -10). 12: So some who can, for the sake of (11) using (9) tell (1,2 and 3) that 11 cant understand. 13: so 1,2 and 3 modify the code so that it can be translated. 14: some who understand 1-10 and 11 use 13 to make 11 unserstand.. ... ... Nth: and we call all this open source.
Mister AKI a.k.a (with all pun intended) P.U.N.K, looks like youve been PNKD!
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
@rad am not too sure about that but isn't that the norm even with closed source?
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
And customers get the source code?
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a company called open world IT that develops opensource solutions . .
On 11/5/10, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote: > On that note where are there any companies that run on an Opensource > software business model i.e. the produced software is open source? > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Glenn Sequeira < gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote: >> > @Glenn, @Nd'wex. Am in a kind of rush. Gentlemen, I think let's narrow >> this >> > down. As passionate people of technology in your area of open source, >> what >> > have you done or created to have made the source code and its >> applications >> > of your projects more different to what you found or downloaded. When >> > you >> > changed the code aspects that made it more functional or adaptive, was >> this >> > contribution made available to some library or repository? Kindly note >> > that helpdesk support is being done by many many open source users out >> > there. Thus, most can google the problems. >> >> I'd like to reiterate that contribution to an open source project is >> not limited to writing code: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/index.html (I hope >> you bother to open this link). >> >> ~gms >> _______________________________________________ >> Skunkworks mailing list >> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> ------------ >> Skunkworks Rules >> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >> ------------ >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> >
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
Skype : mark.mwangy _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
Skype : mark.mwangy
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke