[Linux-aus] Oseg -- Open Source Experts Group

Troy Lea troy at box293.com
Mon Jun 25 13:44:03 AEST 2018


Thank you, this is a great resource.


Troy Lea
IT Consultant and Nagios Developer
troy at box293.com
sites.box293.com/nagios



On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Troy, If you haven't already found it, I suggest having a look at:
>
> https://producingoss.com/
>
> This does a pretty good job of summarising best practices.
>
> I haven't been hovering on this long enough to suggest whether this is a
> good place to ask questions. (I'm hopeful that it is).
>
> If you ask here, or email me directly, I'm happy to take a crack at
> answering. (I've been on a few project steering committees and on an open
> source foundation board before.)
>
> On 25/6/18 1:24 pm, Troy Lea via linux-aus wrote:
>
> Appreciate the responses, I suspect it's defunct as well and some future
> pruning is required.
>
> I have some questions regarding open source projects and what happens when
> there is a fork and a community split that occurs, more-so questions about
> best practices in the aftermath. I don't think the linux-aus group is the
> right place to ask the questions hence why I though the OSEG mailing list
> might have been a good start.
>
> Does anyone have any other recommendations as to where I can discuss these
> topics?
>
>
> Troy Lea
> IT Consultant and Nagios Developer
> troy at box293.com
> sites.box293.com/nagios
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Linux Australia President via linux-aus
> <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Paul, and apologies for the lack of response Troy.
>>
>> Yes, the Council currently has an active task for identifying active
>> subcommittees and groups, and when we move to the new website we'll try
>> and prune Mailman back as well.
>>
>> As always, many hands make light work so if you'd like to be involved in
>> this activity, let us know :-)
>>
>> Best, Kathy
>>
>>
>> On 25/06/18 11:11, Paul Shirren via linux-aus wrote:
>> > On 25/06/18 10:07, Troy Lea via linux-aus wrote:
>> >
>> >> I never received a response, who do I contact in regards to this?
>> >>
>> > Anyone able to respond probably reads this list. Is OSEG still around?
>> > Looking at wayback,  the web page and opensource.org.au went away years
>> > ago. It doesn't look like they have a web presence. They are possibly
>> > defunct. Perhaps we should have a poll of what lugs and orgs are still
>> > active. How is OSIA going? Their web page news seems to be updated
>> > regularly.
>> >
>> > I can't speak for the OSEG list but I think the lists in general need a
>> > review by the committee. Possibly as part of wider pruning and
>> > refocussing efforts.
>> >
>> > I signed up to do spam curation on a couple of lists over a decade ago
>> > and they haven't had a legitimate post for years and only serve as spam
>> > traps. Open source is obviously still going strong but communities have
>> > shifted as have the ways people choose to communicate and organise
>> > (sometimes for the worse).
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