ColdFusion Open Source Update and beyond…
November 23, 2010 3 Comments
As some of you may already know, Brian Rinaldi has recently announced that he’s ending his “ColdFusion Open Source Update” series of blog posts. Thankfully it was for all the right reasons, being the fact that there is too much going on in the CFML Open Source community for Brian to dedicate enough time towards.
I personally found the updates were extremely useful for keeping up with what was going on with open source projects. Later I also gained from my projects being mentioned in the updates, spreading the knowledge of them and providing a nice source of potential users.
What do we do now?
There are still ways to keep up with CFML based open source. RIAForge has a subscription, as Ray Camden has pointed out.
- RIAForge
- ColdFusion Projects
- ColdFusion Builder Projects
- GitHub
- SourceForge
Pull our thumbs out?
Personally I think we, as a community, should pull our thumbs out. Brian did a fantastic job, but maybe if some of us got together we could produce something even better. We could continue the series of posts, but with multiple people working towards it the time required would decrease for each of us. Or we could take the chance to create a site dedicated to CFML open source news that could also provide useful information to aid in all the work maintaining a project requires.
To that end I’ve created a Google Group to discuss this, or even just chat about CFML open source in general. Feel free to join me there and we’ll see if anything develops out of it.
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Found something extremely useful and want to thank me with more than just words?
Just wanted to point out there is a Google Group already for CF opensource developers…
http://groups.google.com/group/cfopensource-contributors
Might be a good resource to tap into.
David, thank you very much for your efforts and for creating the CFML Open Source group. It’s highly appreciated. It would be great, if we as a community could pick up and continue Brian’s excellent work.
@Russ, yes there is an existing group for opensource-contributers. But I find it really odd, that you can’t even view the content there without signing in and applying for membership. Making Open Source popular in closed forums doesn’t seem right to me. So it makes perfect sense for me, to have a new group.
@Russ & Andreas,
I recently found the “ColdFusion Open Source Contributors” group thanks to a comment by Ray Camden on Brian’s post about stopping the updates. After joining it and reading some of the older posts I realised that it was created more for the developers behind a project rather than the community that might use it. One post to it described that they wanted to use it for developers to share advice on running projects, so I figured I’d open one about the other side of the coin