to make oss developers

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To make OSS developersTo make OSS developers

2006.6.13高橋　浩和

Hirokazu Takahashi


AgendaAgenda Who am I? Advice for engineers. Requests for companies. Proposal for OSDL.


Who am I?Who am I? An Operating System designer.

– OS for some objects to lift up satellites to the geostationary orbit.

– OS for telephone exchangers, which are huge non-stop fault-tolerant computers.

– Linux kernel, another playground of mine. OS設計者

– 大型制御系ＯＳの設計者– フルスクラッチで設計する機会があった、運が良い


Who am I?Who am I? Zero-copy NFS done Made NFS over TCP work Memory hot-remove project suspended Yet another memory controller project

suspended


Advice for EngineersAdvice for Engineers


The most important thingThe most important thing

Communication skill Technical ability≫

技術力より対話能力


What you should knowWhat you should know

Get to know the rules of the community you are going to join.– various policies and various ways to make

decisions コミュニティごとの決まりごと


What you should knowWhat you should know

You should know who they are– Their target will probably be different– They don’t have any responsibilities for you

いろいろな人がいる– 目的やモチベーションは様々– あなたの意見を聞く義務はない– 相手は人間


Get them to know who you areGet them to know who you are

They don't want to accept ideas from strangers

まずは、知ってもらわないことには、話が進まない


Get them to know who you areGet them to know who you are

Communication. Keep contact with them Report bugs and send fixes Face-to-face meetings have beneficial effects コミュニケーションと実績が全て可能な限りカンファレンスにも参加させてもらおう


Let them know what you are Let them know what you are doingdoing

From the beginning

プロジェクトの始めから


Make things for every oneMake things for every one

make it generic Take advice from others

汎用的に作ろう聞く耳を持とう


What you should/shouldn’t doWhat you should/shouldn’t do

Cooperate with them Concede if it isn’t 100% perfect, better than

nothing. Don’t get mad, don’t give up

協調と妥協、次もあるめげない、怒らない


Work on your own nameWork on your own name

They will believe you rather than the name of the company you belong to

会社名より個人名


Requests for CompaniesRequests for Companies


Which community are you Which community are you going to contact?going to contact?

Types– OSS user communities are completely different

from OSS developers communities.– OSDL isn’t special. It is just one of the

communities OSSコミュニティの種類

– ユーザコミュニティを開発コミュニティと混同しないこと

– OSDLは、企業コミュニティ


The obstaclesThe obstacles Corporate policy

– It isn’t usually allowed to open any information.– It isn’t popular to meet engineers in other

companies to discuss technical issues

会社の方針と企業文化– 原則、企業外部へのアクセス禁止、情報公開禁止– 企業外の技術者との交流の風土がない


What you should giveWhat you should give

Build scheme for OSS development– separate OSS departments from the others– make different rules just for OSS development

自由に参加できる体制– 公開しない情報が紛れ込んでしまわない体制– ＯＳＳ部門専用の運用手順


What you should giveWhat you should give Develop OSS engineers

– assign it as a long-term job– let them work as like as independent engineers– give them three times longer period than that

for developing proprietary software人

– 長期担当– 個人名で流通させる– コミュニケーション時間を


Proposal for OSDLProposal for OSDL


Impossible to control OSS Impossible to control OSS communitiescommunities

Don’t try to control OSS communities Let them do what they are suitable for Only people working on OSS can have a

position in the communities コミュニティを制御しようとしないコミュニティの得意なことをコミュニティで、コミュニティの苦手なことは企業側で

手を動かすこと


Who should be hiredWho should be hired OSDL should hire OSS developers:

– who dedicate their life to others – who shouldn’t be just OSS programmers or

attention-getting type献身的な人を雇うべき

– OSS開発者でもあるべき– 単なるプログラマやユーザではない


The problems of mineThe problems of mine

I have been losing time working as an engineer recently

hard to find good sponsors

開発に使える時間が消えたマネージャー採用しますスポンサー

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