[xwiki-devs] FOSDEM talk proposal: "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community"

Hi Devs, As you might already know, I’m co-organizing a “Community Development and Marketing” devroom [0] at FOSDEM 2013 [1]. I would like to propose a 30 minute talk for this devroom, about how we organize/centralize our infrastructure via XWiki applications, such as the IRC bot, the SVN and GIT applications etc, thanks to XWiki’s powerful development capabilities. More precisely: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community Abstract: Following modern practices for software development and community management requires a plethora of tools, from source code handling to means of communication. Every tool has its purpose, and is necessary for things to run smoothly. Discarding any of them from the workflow is not an option. Yet, keeping track of everything can be overwhelming, especially for new members of your community who have to learn not just the internals of the code, but also the chock-full of tools around it, and the rules associated with each of them. One of the solutions we found for our community is to implement a “developers’ wiki”, where most of the tools are either integrated, or, for the more simple ones, implemented directly in our wiki. In this talk I’ll quickly explain how a development wiki works. I’ll then present our wiki-centered infrastructure, which brings together the SCM repository, mailing lists, issue trackers, the IRC/XMPP channels, even lower level tools for virtual machine management and resource consumption monitoring, and offers simple solutions for blog and forum hosting, voting, extensions hosting, and much more. Finally, I’ll show how this approach for infrastructure management improves the workflows within our community and facilitates the integration of newcomers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions. Also, do consider submitting other proposals relevant for the theme of the devroom. The deadline is this Sunday, December 23rd. [0] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2012-November/001656.html [1] http://fosdem.org/2013/ -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/