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Topics: [OPN-Content]List is open. Press release, first annoucerment. Discussion may beginn. Thank you. MontaVista Software opening engineering department in UK.

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:13:13 +0100 From: Darian Lanx bio@gmx.net To: content@lists.openprojects.net Subject: [OPN-Content]List is open. Press release, first annoucerment. Discussion may beginn. Thank you.

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Vienna 24th January 2001. On behalf of Rob Levin, OPN owner, and Darian Lanx, OPN #content project leader, the following announcement is released for public discussion. Please note, that you can review the rules for posting to this list following this link: http://lists.openprojects.net/pipermail/content/2001-January/000010.html

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- - -------------------------------------------------------------- The content site will provide features and news on open source projects and the people who work on them. Project successes and needs will be highlighted, new and promising projects will be covered, and we'll interview participants to find out the problems they've had and the lessons they've learned in running their projects.

We'll be interested in solicited technical articles from project participants, or helping them put together such articles, as a way to highlight the efforts of their projects.

We'll cover such topics as project advocacy, recruiting, collaborative and project management skills and how they affect project efficiency. Topics will include the integration of conventional CS and industry thought and technique, with the informal style of the community: what works, what doesn't, and how we can all improve our open source project skills. Topics will include education and research, techniques, snags and approaches, as well as the need for inter-project coordination.

On the philosophical side, we'll highlight questions such as: Why do people do open source? How do they make it work? What significance does it have for them?

Plans for the site do not currently include user forums; many sites such as Kuro5hin and Slashdot already link original content on the web to user discussion areas. There will be an "email to the editor" section but it will contain selected emails of editorial interest. The emphasis of the site will be on news, features and editorial comment.

The site will embody a set of editorial viewpoints for which Open Projects is well known:

(1) The community profits from expansion. But new participants need to be integrated well into the community. Community participants who help recruit new participants and help integrate them into the community should be recognized. Methods for doing so will be a topic of editorial discussion from time to time.

(2) The community profits from improved communication and collaboration skills. Community participants whose skills in these areas are exemplary should be recognized for their efforts.

(3) Open and free communication make free software development possible. Groups and organizations which defend the ability of developers to work in a public setting without falling prey to legal attack should be recognized for their efforts. Efforts to obstruct projects by legal means should be covered as important community news.

(4) Decentralized, parallel structures are robust. Centralized functionality tends to produce bottlenecks when individual projects or structures with no backup fail to function properly. The community takes advantage of parallelization in the form of projects with overlapping functionality, as well as with the ability to fork existing projects. Multiple web servers, multiple ftp clients, multiple shells and editors, multiple desktop managers all contribute to the stability and robustness of community efforts as a whole.

So, basically, duplication of effort can be a safety feature for the community.

Projects with similar or overlapping goals will be compared and contrasted in such a way that their differences are clear. We will not take the editorial position that having fewer overlapping projects is automatically better.

(5) Project politics reduces the effectiveness of project participants. Community members who rise above political concerns and who build bridges between projects should be recognized for their efforts. For example, we'll promote developers who are willing to port KDE applications to Gnome, and vice-versa. We'll recognize the efforts of community members who work to include rival projects in standards discussions.

(6) The free software model has useful implications for society at large and may have applicability to projects involving technology or information transfer. We will attempt from time to time to highlight those implications and applications of similar models outside the free software community.

Rob Levin & Darian Lanx - - -- Si vis pacem, para bellum

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:34:43 -0000 From: I Graham igraham@scheduledevelopments.co.uk Subject: MontaVista Software opening engineering department in UK.

Hi,

I was pointed at this address by some guys in the Hampshire LUG, so I hope this e-mail is appropriate to this list.

I am with MontaVista Software, the makers of HardHat Linux for embedded systems, and we are in the process of opening our international engineering department (non-US) based in Bracknell, Berkshire.

I am looking for experienced Linux developers to join the engineering team in a variety of roles, including technical support and professional services. I don't want to post detailed job specs here but typically this will involve kernel and device driver work in C, as well as other embedded specific work, such as Micro Windows, FLTK Toolkit, etc, in C and C++. There is probably the opportunity for travel throughout Europe and to the Sates and maybe to Japan. There will be some customer facing aspects to some of the roles.

The markets that MontaVista targets include things like consumer electronics, telecomms, set top boxes and internet TV. In short, embedded devices with limited resources that can benefit from Linux.

If you would like more information, please e-mail or phone me :-

Telephone : 07787114306 E-mail : IGraham@Schedule.Demon.co.uk

Ian Graham Director, International Engineering MontaVista Software (www.MVista.com)

P.S. You'll notice that I haven't even got my e-mail running through MVista servers yet. This really is getting in at the beginning. I want to set up an open evening and will do so in early February, depending on the response to this e-mail.