[Ubuntu Chicago] Project Idea

[Freddy Martinez]

> Tonight while on IRC, RJ and myself were trying to come up with project ideas.
That can't be good....
> One of our ideas was to revive an old project. So we went to trusty ol'
> Google and started searching. What we found is that it is difficult to find a
> list of projects in need of someone taking them over.
Google fails us? Andrew, what do you know about it.
> So, jokingly I stated we should create a project that does just that. We can
> research and list free and open source projects that are no longer being
> maintained. People can propose a project that is dead to us, and then we can
> research it and see if it is dead and open for us to take over. Once we can
> take it over, we can list it on our site with as much information as
> possible, in hopes that someone will come along and say "hey, that would be a
> cool project to work on."
I seem to realize there many thousands of pieces of software in the
repositories. Maybe we can look at some of them and see which one's
need love and we can beef up.
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> Now, of course we would have to require some sort of checking in on the person
> or persons that would be interested in taking over the project. That way
> there we could somehow guarantee that project didn't get removed or
> transferred and not worked on.
Upstream contacts would be very important. Maybe some of our guys
would like to become maintainers of some sort.
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Freddy: Life-support.
Hey, I like it.
> Just to get an idea really. What does everyone think?
I'm liking the ideas. I seem to think we will have a great list of
them, possibly something to vote on for the next meeting. I wonder how
the actual LoCo fits into all this, would it be worth all this effort
(and can this improve Ubuntu?)
> Maybe even the Chicago GLUG guys as well since they are all coding geniuses
They may be interested in this project for their Programming Challenge
or whatever it is they call their routine hack sessions.
Looks like we have a good start. Like I said, maybe we can start by
looking at older pieces of software in the repositories. From there we
can see if they are still in active development and go from there.
Reactions?

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Best,
Freddy Martinez
Ubuntu. Linux for human beings.
www.chi.ubuntu-us.org
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