Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:58:41 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> To: developer-announce@lists.sourcexchange.com Subject: new RFPs on sourceXchange. ***Greetings from sourceXchange!*** Since our last update, we have had several new Requests for Proposals posted on sourceXchange. Additionally, there are 5 active projects underway which will soon reach completion. Remember these are actual projects paying actual dollars for development of 100% Open Source software. We like to think this is solid validation for the distributed piad development model that Collab.Net has pioneered with sourceXchange. News this month: o New and Updated Requests For Proposals (RFP's) o First sourceXchange Project Completed o SourceXchange Statistics o Conferences coming up: ApacheCon 2000 and the O'Reilly Conference on Java o Sneak Peak at Collab.Net's Next Move Requests For Proposals ---------------------- Currently there are 11 open RFPs in the sourceXchange database. Feel free to submit proposals or comments on the projects that interest you, and consider being a peer reviewer as well. Here is a list of the current RFPs: Sponsor: Invisible Worlds Project: A BXXP Listener Module in the Apache 2 Server URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=21 Project Overview: Write an Apache module for Apache 2.0 which conforms to the Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mrose-blocks-protocol-00.txt Sponsor: BeOpen.com Project: SQL Database Support for ArgoUML URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=19 Project Overview: Develop an SQL schema that follows the UML meta-model specification very closely, and add support to ArgoUML for accessing information stored in an SQL database (such as MySQL). For more info on ArgoUML see http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/arch/uml/ Sponsor: Collab.Net Project: Java servlet and WebMacro-based browser for Unix mbox-format mail archives URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=18 Project Overview: Develop a combination of WebMacro templates and Java classes that act as an interface to simple Unix mbox-format mailbox archives for the purposes of rendering them as HTML and attachments. (Think of a Java servlet/webmacro version of hypermail on steroids) Sponsor: BeOpen.com Project: Additional UML Diagram Support in ArgoUML URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=17 Project Overview: Add a number of missing UML diagrams to ArgoUML using the Graph Editing Framework (GEF) library which ArgoUML provides. These diagrams should conform to the UML 1.3 specification. Sponsor: BeOpen.com Project: Graphical Object-Oriented Code Browser URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=16 Project Overview: Rewrite the graphical interfaces of the OO-Browser to perform all listing queries independently from the textual browser. Develop a basic messaging API between the textual browser engine (which is written in Lisp) and the graphical browser interfaces. More information on the OO-Browser can be found at: http://www.beopen.com/manuals/oo-browser_1.html Sponsor: BeOpen.com Project: Graphical InfoDock/Xemacs URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=15 Project Overview: Extend the InfoDock/XEmacs integrated development environment with full graphical toolkit capabilities using either Qt or Gtk. This will allow full GUI application development in Lisp with powerful built-in editing and information management capabilities. Here are the RFP's we announced last time which are still open for bids, comments, and peer review interest: Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard Project: Dynamic Domain Service for E-Speak URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=14 Project Overview: This project is to allow DNS to take advantage of the e-speak dynamic name lookup afforded by the advertising service to locate the IP addresses of friends who are online. The developer should feel free to implement this on top of the Berkeley name daemon (bind) if they so desire. In other words mesh BIND and e-speak to allow people with dynamic IP's to take advantage of the e-speak technology. Sponsor: Novell CodeCore Project: Apache LDAP / NDS integration URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=12 Project Overview: An LDAP authentication module for Apache currently exists, but it is untested with NDS and NDS v8. Therefore the goal of this Novell CodeCore project is to modify as needed the LDAP authentication module for the Apache web server in order to authenticate users (and other directory entries) to a local or remote LDAP server running NDS and NDS v8. *be sure to take a look at the comments on this RFP, as Novell is currently reviewing these comments, and the RFP may change as a result.* Sponsor: Ricoh Silicon Valley Project: Group web application/template URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=11 Project Overview: Develop a web application for a target group (chosen by the developer not by Ricoh Silicon Valley) with a predetermined scope of functionality using "Platform for Information Applications" (PIA). Ricoh Silicon Valley believes PIA holds great promise for the open source development of Web applications by a developer community which includes technical writers, user interface designers, and others whose primary skills may not be conventional coding. For more info on PIA see: http://www.RiSource.org/PIA/ Sponsor: Walnut Creek CDROM Project: Telephony Open Source Interface (TOSI) URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=9 Project Overview: Implement an Open Source computer telephony interface. The interface should be similar to Microsoft's TAPI, so that it provides similar functionality and so that TAPI applications can be ported reasonably easily. The reference platform will be FreeBSD, but the code should be portable to Linux, Solaris, Windows, etc. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard Project: Portable network desktop URL: http://www.sourceXchange.com/RfpBrowse?Button=Details&rfpID=4 Project Overview: The project is to develop an application which gives access to applications on a remote desktop from across the network. Applications like this have been developed before, but in this case HP wishes to have a remote desktop written which exposes the features of e-speak. The complete RFP gives details of other similar projects which further reinforce the details of this RFP. For more information on e-speak visit: http://www.e-speak.net First sourceXchange Project Completed -------------------------------------- The first completed sourceXchange project was a test suite framework for the Apache Web Server sponsored by HP. The following comments highlight the success of this project from the perspectives of everyone involved. "HP is very pleased with the open source software developed by Chang Liu through the sourceXchange process. HP looks forward to using the Test Suite for the Apache server and we invite other developers to use, modify and enhance the software. Thanks go to Dilip Khandekar at HP and Ben Laurie the Peer Reviewer for guiding the project." -- Mike Balma, Director Open Source, HP "Being a graduate student, I had the freedom to pursue my interest and develop software tools that I thought were useful. It wasn't easy to find real users to verify my ideas, though. The sourceXchange project gave me a chance to work with real-world software developers and get valuable feedback from both a commercial company (HP) and an Open Source developer (Ben Laurie). This experience will become a solid chapter in my dissertation. Thanks for the great work of the sourceXchange people." -- Chang Liu, Open Source Developer "I am pleased to have had the opportunity to participate in this ground-breaking experiment in free software development. HP, particularly, should be congratulated for having the vision to finance this first sourceXchange project." -- Ben Laurie, Peer Reviewer SourceXchange Stats ------------------- *Lots* of new folks joining the party. Welcome! Registered Users: 4643 Active Developers: 1065 Wish Projects: 180 Posted RFPs: 11 RFP Comments: 97 RFP Interest: 112 Proposals: 42 Active Projects: 5 Completed Projects: 1 Upcoming Conferences: ApacheCon 2000 and the Java Developer Conference -------------------------- It was great to see many of you in New York at the Bazaar in December, and LinuxWorld last week. Collab.Net and sourceXchange will also have a presence at the following conferences, and we definitely encourage you to consider attending them too. If you've got questions you want answered face to face about the sourceXchange process or service, you'll find us here. Collab.Net founder Brian Behlendorf will be giving a keynote address at ApacheCon as well. ApacheCon 2000, March 8-10th at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida http://www.apachecon.com/ "ApacheCon 2000 is your chance to meet many of the Apache developers and to find out more about the Project. With an anticipated attendance of at least one thousand Internet professionals, ApacheCon is an ideal opportunity for you to witness and participate in one of he most interesting new software projects since the dawn of computing-the Open Source revolution." O'Reilly Java Developer Conference March 27-30, 2000 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California http://conferences.oreilly.com/java/ "At last there is a conference for serious Java programmers who want their technical information straight. Over four days you'll get the opportunity to explore every important topic in enterprise Java program development with some of the most knowledgeable speakers in the business. Register by Feb. 25, 2000 and save $200 on conference sessions and up to $260 on tutorials plus you'll get a free O'Reilly 'Java Tiger' Conference T-shirt." Sneak Peak at Collab.Net's Next Move ------------------------------------ We at Collab.Net have been working on a new initiative for nearly as long as we've been working on sourceXchange itself. One major component of that new initiative is an open source toolchest we call "Tigris". You can get this codebase at <http://www.tigris.org/>, as well as join the related mailing lists. As a downloadable codebase, it's still very alpha, be warned! But we are using it in two live production sites (including tigris.org itself) and will be enhancing it continually, as well as using it behind sourceXchange and other endeavors. ####### Thanks! ####### --- all us geeks at Collab.Net If you'd like to unsubscribe from developer-announce, send a message to developer-announce-unsubscribe@lists.sourcexchange.com. Try and send that message from the account you are subscribed to the list as; if you don't, you'll get a help message back explaining how to remove a specific address. 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