Open Source Software Projects: Two Stages and Ten Questions

James E Keenan

YAPC::NA::2011
June 27, 2011

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Parrot Is Ten Years Old
3. "Open Source Software" vs. "Open Source Software Projects"

5. Stages of Development
6. Production
7. Higher Stage
8. Developmental Life Cycle

9. Ten Questions: Aries
10. Q1: What's the point of Aries?
11. Q2: What problems does Aries solve?
12. Q3: *Whose* problems does Aries solve?
13. Q4: What stage of development is Aries in right now?
14. Q5: What motivates individual participants in the Aries project to contribute?
15. Q6: What kind of people does the Aries project attract as participants?
16. Q7: How do Aries participants organize themselves to do the work of the project?
17. Q8: What kind of leadership does the Aries project have?
18. Q9: What are the Aries project's bus factors?
19. Q10: Are you "getting to the point" of the Aries project?

20. Ten Questions: Parrot
21. PQ1: What's the point of Parrot?
22. PQ2: What problems does Parrot solve?
23. PQ3: *Whose* problems does Parrot solve?
24. PQ4: What stage of development is Parrot in right now?
28. PQ5: What motivates individual participants in the Parrot project to contribute?
29. PQ6: What kind of people does the Parrot project attract as participants?
30. Q7: How do Parrot participants organize themselves to do the work of the project?
31. PQ8: What kind of leadership does the Parrot project have?
32. PQ9: What are the Parrot project's bus factors?
33. PQ10: Are you "getting to the point" of the Parrot project?

34. End Notes