Presentation: Lessons learned maintaining Open Source ActionScript projects
One of the interesting things about working at Firstborn is that from time to time employees will host “Group Therapy” sessions, which are nothing other than presentations on diverse topics (read more about the idea behind this in this great article by former Firstborn employee Jens Fischer).
A week or so ago I had the nerve to host a presentation of my own. It was called “Lessons learned maintaining Open Source ActionScript projects” and it was, quite obviously, all about things I learned while publishing Open Source projects – namely, MC Tween and Tweener.
Now, I’m not really an OS guru and much less a proper OS project manager, but I think there were some interesting experience points gained in those quests that I wanted to share so I decided to make it publicly available. Check it out – I promise it has some interesting links mentioned:
The presentation is available on Slideshare, or as a direct PDF download.
This was also presented at the (awesome) FlashCodersNY weekly meeting of October 14th.
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Posted on 21/October/2009 at 14:58 | #
This is a great collection of insights of working on an OS project. I had started putting down some of these exact same thoughts based on what I’ve seen while working on Degrafa. When I get something a little more tangible together I’ll be sure to share it.
Posted on 21/October/2009 at 15:18 | #
@Juan: wow, yeah, please do!
Posted on 21/October/2009 at 15:20 | #
Great write up Zeh!
I’ve been planning for a similar post, since it’s another way to share with the community. I’ve always taken your handling of mc_tween and Tweener as a great example to follow.
Cheers
Arthur
Posted on 21/October/2009 at 17:24 | #
I’ve watched the presentation twice (at Firstborn and at the FlashcodersNY meetup) and it was really nice.. many nice comments/questions during and after the presentation.
Some parts of the presentation are really fun/sad: “people will misunderstand what it’s about”, “people will report bugs that doesn’t exist”, “you will be forced to provide support”… – that’s all truth, happens really often and consumes a lot of time…
Thanks for sharing your experience/thoughts.
Posted on 21/October/2009 at 17:56 | #
Thank you for publishing the slides! It would be great if you could even record the presentation
But I know that’s not as easy as it sounds.
I just wanted to say that your posts keep me inspired and makes me want to continue my projects (often open source), even when they get me down (as all projects does, from time to time)
Again, thank you
Posted on 23/October/2009 at 15:11 | #
I didn´t undertand everything but the presentation looks cool. Congrats!
Posted on 19/January/2010 at 13:51 | #
Very cool zeh
Posted on 12/May/2011 at 7:13 | #