Against the Grain: Getting Projects To Work Together

06 May 2003
1 minute read

Preparatory posting for OSCOM 3 regarding inter-CMS cooperation.

Gregor J. Rothfuss and Paul Everitt have posted an interesting article titled "Against the Grain: Getting Projects To Work Together" on Advogato.

The article deals with practical and social problems of getting different Open Source projects to interoperate and support common standards. Open source projects don't work together nearly as often as the availability of the source code would suggest. Cultural differences between projects, egoes, and many other issues stand in the way.

This topic is very relevant to the upcoming OSCOM 3 conference. During the conference different Open Source CMSs, Midgard included, will participate in interop workshops and discuss common themes like WebDAV, NITF, Twingle and SlideML.

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First day of OSCOM 4

30 September 2004. 1 minute read.
This conference is smaller than OSCOM 3 held in Harvard university and in about the same range as OSCOM 2 in Berkeley. However, this just means that this time most people attending are developers instead of end-users, and discussion ranges from interoperability topics to cultural issues. I'm chairing the Apache Track of the event. The first day was mostly Jakarta...

Case study: Building the OSCOM site

18 February 2003. 7 minute read.
OSCOM is an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to Open Source Content Management. The goal of the organization is to bring together as many great brains as possible to build a network and grow the community of open source content management.

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