Open Source #

The vast majority of technology talked about within this notebook will be open source in nature.

TODO

• Examples of large distributed long running projects (Linux, Python, Hadoop, Kubernetes)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the “19 lessons”

Composable and Contextual Systems #

TODO

• Why Everyone Hates Maven and “Dietzler’s Law for Access”

tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |
tr A-Z a-z |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -rn |
sed ${1}q

Upstream & Downstream #

TODO

• Understand that projects are maintained independent of how they are packaged
• Distribution utilization of projects can be beneficial or parasitic
• Holding upstream accountable for downstream mistakes never helps

RTFM #

TODO

• reading manuals isn’t easy at first
• putting it off only hurts you and the community
• identifying idioms/patterns in manuals helps
• first form of contribution back to the community is documentation

Standards, Working Groups, Convergences #

TODO

• The Linux Foundation
• Open Systems Interconnection Model
• IETF and the Internet Protocol Suite
• IEEE and the 802 working groups

Communication Patterns #

TODO

• Mailing Lists
• Forge Systems
• IRC/XMP/Telegram/Matrix
• Fediverse