Open Source and the Lone Developer

Bob Sutor has an interesting blog post with tips for the individual developer to consider before releasing code as open source. His advice compares with that given by Alain Désilets in his article So You Wanna be a Linus Torvalds? The Do's and Don'ts of Running a Small Open Source Project.

Videos on Open Source

The Free and Open Source Software Learning Center (FOSSLC) is starting to get a nice collection of videos regarding open source topics. Other practical things provided by this organization include:

* Provide free events that teach skills using open source.

* Facilitate open source related networking and colaboration between industry, academia, and government.

* Offer course material to assist Colleges and Universities to teach using open source.

* Aggregate news and event feeds from other open source projects and communities.

* Support research and internship projects using open source.

* Promote international connections between projects and institutions.

* Provide infrastructure, governance, and energy to promote development in our ecosystem.

Video of January ToC Online

The video for the January, 2000 OSBR Table of Contents is now available online at Youtube or at the Multimedia section of the OSBR website.