fnokd!

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

It’s Friday, and we all like having friends, so…

myspace.com/codehaus
myspace.com/jboss_org

And don’t act like you don’t have a MySpace account. You know you do.

We’ve got a bundle of opensource communities all over the place now. Some of them are the opensource arm of an otherwise capitalistic commercial entity:

JBoss.ORG
SugarForge
OpenLaszlo
MySQL.org

Others are non-profit, or not tightly tied to a corporation:

Apache Software Foundation
Codehaus Foundation
OpenQA

None of these should be confused with .nets, such as SourceForge.net or java.net. The .nets of the world [...]

Sure, you see the word “parasitic” and the first thing that pops to mind is probably “ewww.”
But parasitic behavior is actually a good strategy for new communities, as long as they don’t ultimately kill their host.
Last night Rysiek pinged me about some thoughts on how to improve JBoss Portal, by allowing the core team to [...]