108 Who, What, Where, When, and Why Tomislav Vujec and Karsten Wade, Red Hat ------ Notes: You might have seen something about 108 already at the Summit, or even out in the wild. Today, Tomislav Vujec and Karsten Wade are here to tell you more about it, and better yet, show you around the site a little bit. We'll definitely leave time for Q&A, as we want this presentation to be your first real step into 108. After this presentation, we'll be out with laptops for you to get registered. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 108 is to open source communities as RHEL is to Fedora ------ Notes: Red Hat cultivates Fedora Core in the community, and harvests RHEL with enterprise features, QA/testing, support, and services. We are now doing the same thing with content, best practices, and support for the open source methodology, all within 108. Fedora is both a starting point and a next destination for all RHEL work; it is a part of the continuum that leads to great features and great innovation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intersection of Open Source and Corporate Developers More than a developer network, 108 lives at the intersection of open source development methods and traditional corporate developers ... As part of an ecosystem that supports your software projects with a complete life cycle: Develop Test Deploy <---------------------------> ------ Notes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Develop Test Deploy <---------------------------> Content: * Platform Relevance - Red Hat + ISV/IHV/OEM Partners * Technology Focused - Find what you need for the systems and tools you work with * People Focused - Find other developers who share common interests, to learn together, support each other, spark new projects * Best of Open Source Developers * All Aspects of Development - Designing, Architecting, Programming, QA, Release, Documenting, Localizing, Managing * Recipes, tutorials, best practices, general concepts, specific how-tos, forums, and mailing lists ------ Notes: Our number one priority is bringing you the content that you need. From our own experience, our support queues, and industry research, we have a fair idea of the topic areas that you need covered. Design and architecture, that's important. There is a lot that the open source methodology brings to this aspect of development. Then there is coding itself, and everything from best tool usage practices to open source methods usable for your in-house projects. That's a simple and powerful idea, turning your users into a test base, and it works very well for open source. Quality control and the whole testing cycle, while it may have taken a while for open source testing to reach the pervasive capabilities of older toolchains, the communities have more than filled the gaps. In the areas of documentation and localization, the pioneer work is leveraging the power of many hands making many small incremental changes to turn into a timely, useful whole. Development managers may not have thought about their role in an open source methodology, but anyone who manages and leads development teams whole fill all these roles can benefit from the same sharing of ideas, practices, and understanding of how a meritocracy and ideocracy can work for you. All of this in as many different styles as you can want. Recipes and tutorials for coding, testing, writing, leading, and so forth. Articles on general open source and development concepts, articles on specific ways to get your work done. Forums and mailing lists to learn and share through, to ask and answer as part of a community. However, it is not the Red Hat way to impose a huge taxonomy and mentality about what you need and how it should be delivered. 108 is an open content, collaboration community. This means that not only are your requests for specific kinds of content closely listened to, but you have the opportunity to become or support the editorial voices that find and identify content relevant to your community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Develop Test Deploy <---------------------------> Collaborate: * Tools that you already use - blogs, del.icio.us, technorati, etc. * Layers of tools - the more that you want, the more we'll have * We are enabling developers and all readers to: - Highlight and provide content - Bring new voices into the community - Start their own projects: content, collaboration, or ...? - Make their own personal space - you.108.redhat.com ------ Notes: We've learned from making open source software into a business model that we aren't going to get anywhere by imposing a huge structure and demanding that everyone follow just this and get THAT JOB DONE! Instead, we make smart and easy to use tools available. When people like those tools, they are drawn to our smarter tools, which may take an extra minute to use but get you and others so much more than that back. We'll be demonstrating a few of these features in a few minutes. But first, what is this about you.108.redhat.com? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- you.108.redhat.com ------ Notes: As part of our emphasis on people, we're building out a suite of developer social networking tools. This is to make it easier for you and others to find each other for collaboration. At the heart of this people emphasis is the personal "people project". This is a full-scale project that runs on the collaboration platform, giving you your own gathering place to aggregate content, share about yourself, and pull in relevant content feeds. Each people project can host its own mailing lists, forums, sub-projects, sub-pages, and so forth. [[Flip to quaid.108.redhat.com]] When registering or later, as a first step in this developer social network you can fill out a developer profile. This is a record about yourself where you can identify the technologies you know about, are an expert in, what interests you, and so on. This system is open to all registered users, so others can add comments to your profile, help identify you as an expert, and so on. This works like a Wiki, in that the profile is open for collaboration on the honor system; site governance specifies how we are not to treat each other in the profile. [[Flip to demonstrating more site stuff? or wrap more slides, and then demonstrate? Maybe the later, so each demonstration section has a slide to go with it that has a live URL, so others later can follow in their own way.]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Notes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Notes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------