Comments on: Transparency, Communication and our own Personal Failephant

By: Chris Blow

Chris Blow — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:19:24 +0000

The original search from Rabble’s forum post returned 0 results: http://forums.ushahidi.com/topic/failing-at-open-source

A year and a half later there are now 47 repositories for that search: http://github.com/search?q=ushahidi&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1

Awesome!

By: Making Ushahidi — WhiteAfrican

Making Ushahidi — WhiteAfrican — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:40:17 +0000

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By: Peperuka

Peperuka — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:21:56 +0000

That’s the way to move forward… When I heard on BBC Digital Planet that Ushahidi were open-sourced I came to Ushahidi website to find out that code source were not available and only available in a Ushahidi’s subdomain. I was a bit disappointed, good to hear that it is now there to download.

And kudos to the team!!

By: Miquel

Miquel — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:57:00 +0000

I think it’s best to give Ushahidi all the open source attention whether Erik may want it or now >:) For us, Maneno is a long way away a point where open sourcing it makes any degree of sense. As I’m seeing with what Ushahidi is going through, you really need a good swath of hours bandwidth to manage the open source initiative and right now, we’re just focused on getting the core to hum the right music.

By: Kaushal

Kaushal — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:31:19 +0000

wait .. does Ed’s and Miquel’s comments mean we might see an Open Source Meedan & Maneno someday in the near future — ahem!!

By: George

George — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:21:41 +0000

We’ve also set up an IRC channel at Meedan in response to this.

Check out http://blog.meedan.net/2009/05/14/opensourcing/

By: Ed Bice

Ed Bice — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:27:43 +0000

Great response, Erik. Can you please open source the failephant graphic (with the ushahidi logo removed, of course).

By: David Sasaki

David Sasaki — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:50:55 +0000

Posts like this are why I have so much admiration for you and the whole Ushahidi team, Erik. With this spirit I don’t see how you can possibly fail.

By: Martin Konzett

Martin Konzett — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:17:55 +0000

I totally agree with rabbles input! But i think it was a bit too dramatic. Releasing open source is the first step and building a community of people working on the code is a second step. I was mostly annoyed to leave my e-mail to get the code, this should not be …

There is are loads of project hosting facilities around: sourceforge, google code just to name the 2 biggest … and they all offer the needed access and communication, but again: if you feel like rolling out the code, just put a tarball with in on some server, which is IMHO better than hiding it from the world;

and then you have to probably restructure your development process to fit the new infrastructure you are planing to use … this can be tricky if you want to have a commercial version on top of the open source base (which IMHO is not bad) … but you maybe end up maintaining 2 development processes …

years ago I used http://gforge.org as a tool which allows you to setup on your own server and have public and private projects … this was 5 years ago … personally since i am now *happy* 100% FOOS developer, i used google code for all of my projects. yes, google is a big evil company, but the project hosting is just very good, very slick, very fast, very high uptime etc …

and by the way: can please somebody point Kenny to this discussion, i am sure frontlineSMS can learn from it too

cheers, mk

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