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May 20

Written by: Anthony Whyte
Tue, 20 May 2008 01:26:36 GMT

There's a thread on the Sakai pedagogy list called "Content Authoring" that's morphed into a discussion regarding Sakai's relative openness as an open-source project.  During the exchange there was a mention of Ohloh by Chuck Severance which drew a response from one participant in the discussion asking to see richer Ohloh profiles of Sakai core/contrib committers.

Since we started enlisting Sakai projects on Ohloh, 71 core and 87 contrib contributors have been tracked (the latter group also contribute heavily to Sakai core projects).  Only a fraction of the profiles listed include any information beyond the basic developer X as represented by a portion of their email address has made Y commits since Month Z.

Creating an account permits developers to provide additional information about themselves (image, bio, geographical location, "stacks" of other open-source projects they use, etc.).  Some developers may prefer general anonymity or may dislike Ohloh.  That's cool but if by chance you have no objections to surfacing a bit more detail about yourself as a Sakai contributor consider creating an Ohloh account or updating your existing one.  Such information adds a bit more detail about the developer contingent in our community as well as a bit more transparency to the project as a whole.

Ohloh Sakai core
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3551

Ohloh Sakai contrib
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4006

Ohloh new account:
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/new

 

Copyright ©2008 Anthony Whyte

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