Abstract of the presentation
There is more to open source than code with a licence. If one talks about an 'open source project' there is usually a group of people involved: a community. Without the community, a project is just some code on the internet. But how do you get a community? And perhaps even more challenging: how do you get the community to do actual work? In this talk, developer community issues will be presented from the viewpoint of the project maintainer.
Bio:
Olivier Sessink was born on December 30, 1975, in Venlo, The Netherlands. In 1994 he moved to Wageningen to study Bioprocess Engineering at Wageningen University. In Wageningen he took part in pilot tests for broadband internet. With a profound interest in technology, he learned much about the possibilities of the internet, including thepossibilities of many open-source tools. In 1996, this led to the start of a company, specialized on internet related projects. Lack of good tools made Olivier start the open-source "Bluefish web development editor" project in 1997. In 1999 he received his Msc degree in Bioprocess Engineering cum laude. The study was followed by a projecton development of web-based learning material for Food and Biotechnology courses, which turned out to be very successful. Olivier continued this research in a PhD project, which will hopefully result in a PhD degree by the end of 2005. Olivier started several other open-source projects, but Bluefish is still the largest and most well-known project.