From stickster at gmail.com Fri Jan 2 17:35:05 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:35:05 -0500 Subject: ISV Summit In-Reply-To: <20081231191542.GQ24919@calliope.phig.org> References: <20081231191542.GQ24919@calliope.phig.org> Message-ID: <20090102173505.GO6883@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:15:43AM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > It hadn't occurred to me to specifically invite everyone here to the > Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) on 8 - 10 January in > Boston. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 > > One use we have for FUDCon is to meet and work on ISV-specific issues > in a mini-ISV summit. It's also a great chance to meet some of the > people across the rest of the project who can help you. One small correction to avoid confusion -- the conference is January 9-11 (Fri-Sun), with most people arriving on Thursday the 8th. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From uzi at alfresco.com Mon Jan 5 15:59:36 2009 From: uzi at alfresco.com (Michael Uzquiano) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:59:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Building a Better Network In-Reply-To: <25763797.206901230743541627.JavaMail.root@unx-d-manc4.tc.ifeltd.com> Message-ID: <27189442.239241231171176687.JavaMail.root@unx-d-manc4.tc.ifeltd.com> Hello, This sounds like a very well organized effort. I'm impressed with what I've read on the wiki. I had a few preliminary questions about how separable the current custom CM implementation is. Alfresco provides a well defined public REST API which seems to be the ideal integration point. It's pretty good today but is also our main area of focus as we move forward. It seems like if some kind of pluggability is to be offered, it should abstract in such a way as to be able to call through to Alfresco's REST methods. Is this the thinking of the team as well? If so, how separable are things? I'd speculate that there may be a good bit of refactoring but am curious how much. In terms of Alfresco providing developer help, that's always a possibility. We have some near term deliverables which will tie us up for the near term but I agree with Lee that we are well suited to aim in the same direction. If we can get in sync, then I bet there is a good deal that we could contribute to each other's projects. For now, though, I'd like to get a feel for how much rewrite is necessary to accommodate a pluggable CM provider (or perhaps just to accommodate Alfresco). Michael Michael G. Uzquiano Director of Alfresco Web Content Management Alfresco (Open Source Enterprise Content Management) Mobile - 512.917.6954 Email - uzi at alfresco.com website. http://www.alfresco.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Faus" To: "Michael Uzquiano" Cc: "fedora-isv-sig-list" , "Matt Asay" , "Matt Mattox" Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:12:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Building a Better Network Uzi, I wanted to open the lines of communication outside of Alfresco about the discussions of a *CompanyName* Network. I had this discussion about 18 months ago with Rich Friedman, Mark Lugert, Matt Mattox, and some others inside of Red Hat about using Alfresco as the foundation for an Open Source Network to be used by all Open Source companies. Since this time, Red Hat has started opening up the code base that makes up RHN under the code name SpaceWalk on the Fedora Projects. This is meant to be built as a potential replacement for Red Hat Satellite, but it will be some time until this happens. I have created a bullet on the Fedora Hosted site to represent this concept to the SpaceWalk developers: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/BrainBox. I know that this is not an immediate fit for us, but I am thinking larger scale. I know that JBoss had JBossON, Red Hat has RHN, JasperSoft has theirs and now we are doing it again. There has to be some economy of scale here so we all don't waste our time. I think building us into the SpaceWalk project makes great sense as they currently have a home grown Content Management System that is deeply integrated into Oracle :(. Replacing this with Alfresco would allow for them scale out very quickly. There are also discussions about SpaceWalk integrating JasperReports for Reporting and GroundWork or some other Monitoring tool to replace the custom development being done. Red Hat has the most experience doing this work as they have run their Network for over 6 years now. We should leverage this knowledge and how we scale out with them instead of working against the grain IMVHO. I have included the other Open Source ISVs in this mailing as well as Matt Asay and my old boss at Red Hat, Matt Mattox, who is in charge of ISV development as a whole at Red Hat that I think would be interested in leveraging this for both Commercial and Open Source ISVs. Let me know what you think. Lee Faus Director of Solution Engineering Alfresco lee.faus at alfresco.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have about 4 or 5 applications using Cobbler via XMLRPC already just within Fedora / Red Hat, and I can see tremendous value for other systems management applications to use it as a service; with all of them contributing to the same codebase and collecting all that knowledge in the same place. http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=830 Cobbler Update / Busy Is Good / Installation-As-A-Service He talks about Spacewalk support, which sounds familiar to the recent discussion here. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: