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If you were king, would you fire everyone, close the company, and open a donut stand tomorrow? If you were king, would you give everyone on your staff an extra week of vacation and a top-of-the-line iPod? If you were king, would you tell Microsoft to bugger off? If you were king, [...]

JBoss.ORG represents the opensource side of the house. Though, for some reason, we look just like the commercial side of the house.

You also end up at labs.jboss.com even though you typed jboss.org into your browser. Quite odd.
No really, we are kinda sorta separate from the mothership.
To help differentiate between the two, and try [...]

As noted previously, many of our projects are capable of sustaining a vibrant sub-community. This includes portlets, ESB connectors, side-projects like Drools.NET, things to jack into JCA, or even our growing collection of JSF things.
There’s activity related to these communities that .ORG needs to support. We’ll be making it easier for these friendly [...]

If you don’t measure, you can’t tell if you’re doing things right or wrong.
You can measure downloads (accounting for spiders, bots and attacks), site visits, RSS subscriptions, site registrations, forum posts. All sorts of things.
You can measure how many issues are opening in JIRA versus those that were closed in the last week. [...]

There’s people out there talking about us and our projects. They’re blogging. They’re writing articles. They’re speaking at conferences.
And we don’t necessarily promote them on JBoss.ORG very well yet.
We need to start pointing out to our community when others in the community are speaking.
Del.icio.us can help.
Every day, JBoss developers and community members [...]

Tomek and Mark are working together to figure out our wiki/CMS strategy. Ultimately, we have the use-cases of

Easy-to-use for developers & community members
Freakin’ pretty to look at
Browsable through a portlet on jboss.org
Versioned (just like the code it matches)
Multiple formats (HTML, PDF)
Multiple languages

We’re not sure what form this will all take, but it’s the goal.
We [...]

To say that “blogging” at JBoss has been contentious would be an understatement. There’s currently two different places/ways of blogging at JBoss. And one of them allows blog posts to go missing without a trace. (Thanks Blojsom!)
Ultimately, software to allow humans to blog isn’t overly interesting, until you get to the point of [...]

This is the head-end of a series of blog posts about the plan for JBoss.ORG. I’ve been here a little more than 6 weeks nows, so it’s time to figure out which way this ship is heading.

Blogging & RSS
Content & Documentation
Community Noise
Metrics & Such
Community Growth

Visual Design

Just got back from Vegas, where I participated on a panel about opensource and business at TheServerSide Java Symposium. It involved five of us from businesses that were related to opensource in some form. It did not include Geir Magnusson, who apparently had better things to do.

Alfresco, John Newton
JBoss, some guy with a [...]

This weekend, the wife suggested we go as a family to see the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
I’d never heard of it, so I googled using the searchbox in Firefox. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, and just typed “road to ter” and up popped some suggestions:

Of course, the movie is named Bridge to Terabithia, not [...]