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Karl Fogel

Karl Fogel

QuestionCopyright.org

Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing “Open Source Development With CVS” (Coriolis, 1999, cvsbook.com), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote “Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project” (O’Reilly, 2005, producingoss.com). After a brief stint as an Open Source Specialist at Google, he left to become editor of QuestionCopyright.org. He writes and speaks regularly on copyright reform and on the application of open source principles to areas outside software.

Sessions

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
An Open Source Project Called "Failure:" Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid
People
 Location: Portland 252
Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.), Shane Warden (O'Reilly Media), Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.), Karl Fogel (QuestionCopyright.org) Moderated by: Josh Berkus
This panel of career open source geeks has ample experience in open source community disasters and failed projects, and how they happen. Join them for examples, stories, and Q&A around why projects fail and how you can identify bad trends before your project crashes. Read more.
OSCON 2008