Coverity Software Integrity Webinar Series

Coverity, Inc. has launched their 2009 web seminar series to connect software developers with industry thought leaders in the fields of software security and quality. The first webinar in the series takes place on Tuesday, January 27th at 10AM PST / 1PM EST. In this session, Coverity CTO Ben Chelf and Forrester analyst Chenxi Wang will explain how the most secure software can be created when audit and development teams collaborate. The seminar will review proven techniques that auditors and developers use to align and measure their combined progress against a set of shared goals. Registration details are here.

OSBR readers may recognize Coverity from the articles Ensuring the Quality of Open Source Software and Coverity Report.

Building Community

Joe Brockmeier, the community manager for Novell's openSUSE, has an interesting blog post entitled "Herding cats for fun and profit: Four tips for working with online communities". His four tips include:

1. Don’t start a conversation you can’t keep up.


2. Plan to act on feedback.


3. Have an open process. When making decisions, planning features, working on code, and so forth, you need to have a process that’s as transparent as possible.


4. Bad news is better than no news.

More tips for building community can be found in the summary of the OSBR article "Community Building: NetBSD in Hindsight".