Project Governance

Jem Matzen, technology author at NewsForge and maintainer of The Jem Report, interviewed yours truly recently. The results are online today. We cover open source project governance in general and the current state of the Mambo open source project in more detail.

Read the entire interview online at Jem's site.

Thanks, Jem!

Open Source Governance and Management Search Engine - A vertical search engine indexing open source project management, governance, and best practices resources. [My Delicious Feed]
This is the latest in my experiments with Google's extremely cool Coop Search Engine feature.

Basically, I got this little side project started by rounding up a variety of resources focused on open source project governance, project management, community building and best practices. I then designated it all to be spidered and then slapped a modified version of the Google search interface on it, and voila! dedicated evrtical search engine.

Here’s a bit of personal trivia for all of you: I used to live in an intentional community (that’s the politically correct euphemism for a “commune”). Many times when I talk to people about Open Source software communities, I think about it in terms of living in community.

The Joomla debacle, in which the old (Aug. 2005) Mambo DevTeam essentially walked off and forked the project without prior disclosure or consultation with the Community, got me (and a number of other people as well) to thinking about the nature of the relationship between the Developers in an Open Source project and the members of the Community. What sort of obligations exist? To whom does one owe duties and loyalties? Is there -- god forbid -- some sort of contract implied in the relationship?