| Red Hat goes all out for developers |
May 31, 2006
Nashville Tenn. -- If you were looking for new products at Red Hat Inc.'s second annual Red Hat Summit, you came to the wrong place. But, if you were interested in bigger and better development tools, you came to the right place.
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik introduced the company's new open-source developer community Web site, "108," in the show's morning meetings. This new site is intended to help open source developers share resources; build and fetch code; find and meet other developers, interact with them; and collaborate with them.
Within 108, Red Hat has set up several communities, focused on: People, Products, News, Partners, Interests, and RoJo Dojo.
Each community has its own mailing lists, discussion forums, announcements, and Subversion for programming code version control. This runs on top of CollabNet Inc.'s Community Edition (CCE) collaborative development platform. - The People area is the common meeting ground for all members of the 108 community. At this time, membership is limited to members of the Red Hat Network, but it will soon open up to others.
- The Products area is meant for developers who are interested in Red Hat and Fedora operating systems and programs.
- News is broader than it might sound. Besides just having developer news, it will also include white papers, tutorials, recipes, and HOW-TOs.
- The Partners area encompasses special sub-categories set up for Red Hat's partners. These companies can then set up their own developer collaborative spaces.
- Interests has been set up for developers to collaborate around specific uses of Red Hat and other open-source programs.
- The mysteriously named Rojo Dojo area is for developers who want to take a walk on the cutting edge of open-source approach. "A dojo is a classroom where the mind, body, and spirit come together for training and betterment," the site states.
An example of what Rojo Dojo can produce might be another new Red Hat-related Web and software package, for example Mugshot. This is mashup of Web services and software that's meant to enable people to share their thoughts on media-such as music and television-in real time.
Rojo Dojo is not, however, meant to be a replacement for such social networking sites as LiveJournal or MySpace. Instead, it's meant to work with them. It also includes links to iTunes and other media players and its own IM client.
The point of all this is to enable people, for example, to talk about what they've been listening to on iTunes in real time with their current play list, via Mugshot's Music Radar, automatically being displayed on their home community site.
In the more traditional developer line, Red Hat is also working on establishing a standard set of open-source testing tools and test standards. This project, which is still in its infancy, will be put under the Fedora umbrella... err... hat.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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