Open Amiga - Projects

About OpenAmiga

The idea behind the Open Amiga organization is for it to act as an Amiga community Open Source Research and Development department.

Content

- The main goals
- Open source
- A rough timeline
- Infrastructure
- Needed personnel

The main goals

- Enhance the AmigaOS 4 experience
- Provide useful information for OS4 developers
- Research advanced topics like multi user support

Everything that Open Amiga produces shall be done with the intent of some day including it in the main AmigaOS4 distribution made by Hyperion.

Open source

Open source presents a few strong points that other methods doesn't offer.

These are the reasons for proposing to use Open Source for the Open Amiga organization:
     - Experience gained from one project can be reused in another
     - The source code can act as school book examples for other developers
     - The source isn't depending on one single person or entity. If the person loses interest the source can keep living on.
     - Anyone can contribute to the code ( though of course governed by the leader of a specific project).
     - The project may make use of the SVN repository provided free-of-charge to manage multiple developers efforts.

A rough timeline

- First off the project needs to gather interest, finding the manpower to drive it. From there, form a group of people, containing say 5 developers and a few others. All with an interest to bring things forward.

- An initial forum needs to be set up or found. done

- Then that work group needs to define the overall goal for the organization Done

- After the overall goal is set some discussion must ensue:

    Infrastructure: like source repositories Done, bounty systems, discussion forums done
    Licensing
    Work flows and definitions
    What projects to do, and which to not do. (defining What is an application, what is an OS function)

- The work group then contacts Hyperion in some manner, presenting the case and ask for their view Done (They are positive to the idea)

- The work group then discusses Hyperions' reaction and defines how to move on

- The work group decides on some basic infra structure Done

- The work group implements the first license scheme(s)

- The work group implements infrastructure Ongoing

- The work group defines project groups and initial projects Done

Infrastructure

There's some issues here that the Work group needs to discuss:
- What web site functions and other support infrastructure do we need? Forums, wikis etc.

Balanced between what we can do ourselves in terms of manpower and using shortcuts like existing solutions.

Needed personnel

- Developers and others who can join the main work group
- Interested parties that provide feedback in the forums
- People who can write developer guides and guidelines (howtos, do's and don'ts)
- Web developers for building the infrastructure
- People who gather available developer documentation from the net

Open Amiga project website, Created in 2008 by Björn Hagström