One of the most powerful and important things about Open Source software is that it brings people together to work on a common goal. This is especially true if the project is setup as a Bazaar instead of a Cathedral.
Usually the groups of people need a framework to communicate to work together in. Initially these were called “communities”, but this isn’t working out so well in some cases, so in this blog post I’ll talk about why an “ecosystem” is better.
Continue reading Community vs EcosystemI have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple C API to Amazon’s S3. This was created because we needed a library which could link to GPLv2 software and Amazon’s own library is Apache 2.0 licensed which is incompatible.
It is not a perfect code base because I had a very short amount of time to get the first release out but it was a very fun project to work on. It led me to take a quick look this morning at a couple of other things I have created in the past to see where they are at today.
Continue reading My Open Source projects that still live on
