James Tauber's Blog 2005/06/07
Yet Another 2D Political Test
The Political Gauge (via Norm Walsh)
No surprises:
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (34). On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (84).
I still find it confusing that Americans call economic liberals "conservative" and being fiscally "liberal" means anything but.
by James Tauber : Created on June 8, 2005 : Last modified June 8, 2005 : Categories politics : 2 comments (permalink)
Mentoring the Summer of Code
I've put my name forward as a Python mentor for the Google Summer of Code. That's not to say that the Python Software Foundation has accepted me as a mentor for official projects, but I'm making it known that I'm interested in helping out.
If you are thinking of applying and you have an interest that might overlap with mine, please feel free to email me.
Besides the specifics of a project, I believe I can help a lot with more general questions of software craftsmanship in an open source context.
In light of my previous blog entry, this definitely feels like an opportunity for me to "give back", although that phrase generally makes me cringe :-)
UPDATE (2005-06-30): I'm official mentoring Elliot Cohen's Bayesian Network project. Watch this blog for updates.
by James Tauber : Created on June 7, 2005 : Last modified June 30, 2005 : Categories python software_craftsmanship : 0 comments (permalink)
Be Careful What You Ask For
I was ego-surfing Google Print and found that a question I asked the FoRK mailing list back in 1999 had been quoted in a book.
The email read:
My XSL formatter/renderer, FOP, is soon to have more than just myself as the developer and as I communicate with would-be co-developers, I've started wondering about software engineering in open source projects.There have been numerous musings on the business and anthropology of open source. Is anyone aware of readings that address the actual software engineering issues?
James
The book is Understanding Open Source Software Development by Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and my second paragraph is quoted on page 6.
I don't mind they quoted me—it's just funny that it was just a simple query to a mailing list that they quoted.
Incidently, I've done a lot of collaborative open source and distributed development since I asked that question. I should probably blog what I've learnt as a way of answering my own question, six years on.
by James Tauber : Created on June 7, 2005 : Last modified June 7, 2005 : 0 comments (permalink)