Motivating Development Experiences

Related prior work I've done.

Mailman - umbrella lists

Mailman is a mailing list manager of which I was a key developer (My Mailman Role). Umbrella lists are an experiment that I included when i was working on it, in order to be able to cascade posts to some central list to subordinate lists that get posts from the superior list as well as their own, distinct posts. I used it for some lists I managed but wound up not needing it, and do not have a sense of how much it is used or is useful.

contact improvisation scopes

  • dc-ci (local - i have centrally tended the dc jam for 10 to 20 years, and maintain web pages, teach, run the dc-ci mailing list, etc),
  • east coast jam (regional - i do all the technical support, run the website, arranged registration using google spreadsheet forms + paypal, provide mailing list outreach using mailman),
  • ci36 (international - i supported the satellite events stuff and the general communications)
  • mailing list - which includes satellite list

cvs knitting

some zope modules belong in multiple places, with checkin notices of concern to various constituencies/mailing lists

issue trackers

similarly, issue trackers - interconnections needed for problems and fixes that had wider impact

overlap between trackers, cvs, and wiki