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Posted to general@incubator.apache.org by Matthias Marschall <ma...@conject.com> on 2005/08/30 16:52:27 UTC
Project Infrastructure Platform (Discussed at ApacheCon)
As discussed at the ApacheCon we're thinking seriously about open
sourcing our project infrastructure platform (aka collaborative project
management platform).
We have been thinking about making our platform open source for quite
some time but we were not sure, whether this is an interesting project
for the open source community. At ApacheCon I was very glad to learn
that the topic seems to find quite a bit of interest.
Our vision is to build a platform for providing all necessary
infrastructure for running projects on the net. We want to provide
and/or integrate all applications and services required to successfully
build a project community.
Currently our platform supports document management, a closed
communication channel, workflows, administration of communities and some
industry specific applications.
Especially the administration of a wide spread community consisting of
individuals and members of various organizations is an interesting topic
where we've put quite some efforts into. We developed ways for inviting
new participants to projects, creating of groups of participants,
managing permissions for applications/services for them etc.
We're planning to extend our platform to enable integration of external
applications like mailing lists, version control systems, wikis etc.
Another possible extension would be a central portal for managing and
accessing all the applications and services.
Our platform is currently targeted to the real estate and construction
market (hence the construction industry specific marketing on our
website) but technologically it is completely agnostic to any specific
industry.
It is a J2EE application usings lots of Apache projects already.
Currently we're working on developing a business case based on an open
source software kernel. I see a quite clear win/win situation for the
open source community and for my company in making our platform open
source.
But I could use additional arguments and maybe knowledge about
successful business models based on open source software as I've been
asked to present this open source strategy to our board of directors on
the 22nd September. I hope to get a decision there to go on with it.
I would appreciate your feedback about the benefits you see in such a
platform. Would it generate the necessary interest within the ASF to
enter the incubator and to attract a vital community around the core
developers provided by us? Do you think the ASF would be a suitable
place for our open source project or shall we look for a differnt
place/community/license model?
Matthias Marschall, conject AG
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Re: Project Infrastructure Platform (Discussed at ApacheCon)
Posted by Matthias Marschall <ma...@conject.com>.
> I have been present during your talks with Noel and others about
> incubating your project. Are there any updates yet?
Yes, we started a project to do a clean up of the code base. This will
give us a better starting position if we get the positive decision from
our board to go on with incubation.
- Matthias
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Re: Project Infrastructure Platform (Discussed at ApacheCon)
Posted by Martin Marinschek <ma...@gmail.com>.
I would hope that a project like this could be resolving many issues
the ASF currently has with infrastructure being hopelessly overloaded
with work....
Shouldn't there be a way to incubate this project (with some small
work for infrastructure) and then in the end hopefully infrastructure
would have nothing to do at all anymore ;))
Noel, you were very enthusiastic about the merits of such a project at
the ApacheCon, right?
regards,
Martin
On 9/8/05, Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@matthias-wessendorf.de> wrote:
> Hi Matthias :-)
>
> I have been present during your talks with Noel and others about
> incubating your project. Are there any updates yet?
>
> You already said that the software is a Java EE app, that uses lots of
> ASF projects, but do you have some architectural papers ? :-)
>
> -Matthias
>
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:52 +0200, Matthias Marschall wrote:
> > As discussed at the ApacheCon we're thinking seriously about open
> > sourcing our project infrastructure platform (aka collaborative project
> > management platform).
> >
> > We have been thinking about making our platform open source for quite
> > some time but we were not sure, whether this is an interesting project
> > for the open source community. At ApacheCon I was very glad to learn
> > that the topic seems to find quite a bit of interest.
> >
> > Our vision is to build a platform for providing all necessary
> > infrastructure for running projects on the net. We want to provide
> > and/or integrate all applications and services required to successfully
> > build a project community.
> >
> > Currently our platform supports document management, a closed
> > communication channel, workflows, administration of communities and some
> > industry specific applications.
> >
> > Especially the administration of a wide spread community consisting of
> > individuals and members of various organizations is an interesting topic
> > where we've put quite some efforts into. We developed ways for inviting
> > new participants to projects, creating of groups of participants,
> > managing permissions for applications/services for them etc.
> >
> > We're planning to extend our platform to enable integration of external
> > applications like mailing lists, version control systems, wikis etc.
> > Another possible extension would be a central portal for managing and
> > accessing all the applications and services.
> >
> > Our platform is currently targeted to the real estate and construction
> > market (hence the construction industry specific marketing on our
> > website) but technologically it is completely agnostic to any specific
> > industry.
> >
> > It is a J2EE application usings lots of Apache projects already.
> >
> > Currently we're working on developing a business case based on an open
> > source software kernel. I see a quite clear win/win situation for the
> > open source community and for my company in making our platform open
> > source.
> > But I could use additional arguments and maybe knowledge about
> > successful business models based on open source software as I've been
> > asked to present this open source strategy to our board of directors on
> > the 22nd September. I hope to get a decision there to go on with it.
> >
> > I would appreciate your feedback about the benefits you see in such a
> > platform. Would it generate the necessary interest within the ASF to
> > enter the incubator and to attract a vital community around the core
> > developers provided by us? Do you think the ASF would be a suitable
> > place for our open source project or shall we look for a differnt
> > place/community/license model?
> >
> >
> > Matthias Marschall, conject AG
> >
> >
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Re: Project Infrastructure Platform (Discussed at ApacheCon)
Posted by Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@matthias-wessendorf.de>.
Hi Matthias :-)
I have been present during your talks with Noel and others about
incubating your project. Are there any updates yet?
You already said that the software is a Java EE app, that uses lots of
ASF projects, but do you have some architectural papers ? :-)
-Matthias
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:52 +0200, Matthias Marschall wrote:
> As discussed at the ApacheCon we're thinking seriously about open
> sourcing our project infrastructure platform (aka collaborative project
> management platform).
>
> We have been thinking about making our platform open source for quite
> some time but we were not sure, whether this is an interesting project
> for the open source community. At ApacheCon I was very glad to learn
> that the topic seems to find quite a bit of interest.
>
> Our vision is to build a platform for providing all necessary
> infrastructure for running projects on the net. We want to provide
> and/or integrate all applications and services required to successfully
> build a project community.
>
> Currently our platform supports document management, a closed
> communication channel, workflows, administration of communities and some
> industry specific applications.
>
> Especially the administration of a wide spread community consisting of
> individuals and members of various organizations is an interesting topic
> where we've put quite some efforts into. We developed ways for inviting
> new participants to projects, creating of groups of participants,
> managing permissions for applications/services for them etc.
>
> We're planning to extend our platform to enable integration of external
> applications like mailing lists, version control systems, wikis etc.
> Another possible extension would be a central portal for managing and
> accessing all the applications and services.
>
> Our platform is currently targeted to the real estate and construction
> market (hence the construction industry specific marketing on our
> website) but technologically it is completely agnostic to any specific
> industry.
>
> It is a J2EE application usings lots of Apache projects already.
>
> Currently we're working on developing a business case based on an open
> source software kernel. I see a quite clear win/win situation for the
> open source community and for my company in making our platform open
> source.
> But I could use additional arguments and maybe knowledge about
> successful business models based on open source software as I've been
> asked to present this open source strategy to our board of directors on
> the 22nd September. I hope to get a decision there to go on with it.
>
> I would appreciate your feedback about the benefits you see in such a
> platform. Would it generate the necessary interest within the ASF to
> enter the incubator and to attract a vital community around the core
> developers provided by us? Do you think the ASF would be a suitable
> place for our open source project or shall we look for a differnt
> place/community/license model?
>
>
> Matthias Marschall, conject AG
>
>
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