The Connexions Project:

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Building Communities And Sharing Knowledge
The Connexions Project
Mission Provide and maintain a commons where
individuals and communities worldwide can create
and freely share knowledge
No Pixie Dust If you build it they will come
myth Netscape experience
Manage Resources Trade money for time Etna open
source XML editor Provide documentation,
usability studies, testing Milestones are needed
to gauge progress
Managing an Open Source Project Its all about
COMMUNITY

• Connexions Open Source Contributions
• Existing Projects
• Plone/CMF
• exUserFolder
• Annozilla
• libxml/libxslt
• Zope
• Released Software/Technologies
• CNXML DTDs
• Roadmap
• XPointerlib
• MathML font installer
• Zope Products ZAnnot, ExtZSQL,
  PasswordResetTool, CMFDiffTool
• In development IE Annotea support,
  CNXMLDocument, RisaRepository, Etna wysiwyg XML
  editor

Engage the Community Let them see your face ?
people interact with people, not
organizations Recognition builds (or breaks)
credibility
Avoid Not Invented Here Join existing open
source communities REUSE Contribute to existing
projects Create new components as a last resort
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