Comments on: Mises.org is going open source – volunteers wanted

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By: J. Chris Folsom

J. Chris Folsom — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:04:44 +0000

Some practical questions:

What is the release cycle going to be and who will be playing the project manager?

Do you have an open issue tracker for bugs and feature requests? If not bugzilla is probably the best choice.

Be glad to help with whatever you need, although my background is primarily in Java development.

By: theBuckWheat

theBuckWheat — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:04:11 +0000

I tend to agree with WR. Use torrent to get the latest full version of each major branch of the tree (your /services/torrents/*) and then allow rsync so I can run a nightly job that keeps up with the deltas. The added bonus of rsync is that it can retry when there is a failure.

By: WR

WR — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:49:21 +0000

Even though I am also in the LAMP/open source camp, here’s an idea that doesn’t require porting the entire ASP.net code base:

Just do something like http://sourceforge.net/ does with their download functionality. They have a huge network of mirrors, and they allow organizations with bandwidth to donate it to the open source cause. It saves sourceforge from the burden of providing all the download bandwidth, and also lets people willing to donate their bandwidth participate.

You can set up rsync so that anyone willing could mirror the pdfs, audio files, etc to whatever platform they choose, then register with mises.org that they would like to be a download mirror. When someone on mises.org wants to download a file, it will take them to a random mirror or perhaps even one local to where they are coming from.

Here’s more information on their mirroring functions:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors

By: WR

WR — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:48:37 +0000

Even though I am also in the LAMP/open source camp, here’s an idea that doesn’t require porting the entire ASP.net code base:

Here’s more information on their mirroring functions:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:22:04 +0000

If it’s an effort, don’t do it – ISTM less effort than editing it. The expense will be disk space, of course, but “distributed Mises” could solve that. If it’s to be useful as “open source” material, it needs to be editable – say, for making a documentary or whatever; can’t do that with the low-quality (I mean small screen size and low bitrate, not that it’s actually bad) .wmv’s you put up. Otherwise it’s just “open content”, not “open source.”

By: David Veksler

David Veksler — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:03:40 +0000

> “And…can we get raw full-size unedited, uncompressed (or not lossily compressed: FLAC audio and HuffYUV video would be good) audio and video, too?”

Why? What are we going to get to justify the effort and expense?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:31:49 +0000

And…can we get raw full-size unedited, uncompressed (or not lossily compressed: FLAC audio and HuffYUV video would be good) audio and video, too?

By: angry rabbit

angry rabbit — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:19:16 +0000

This is a most excellent move.

To all those asking “why”: shutup. Swinging the doors open on the content contained within this site (even if only the static media, books, audio, etc.) is a gateway to reaching new minds.

Never underestimate what a passionate individual with (even mild) technical ability can to that you haven’t thought of.

As a web developer of about 7 years, I’ll be the first to say that although I love everything Mises.org provides, the website itself sucks. Now’s my chance to prove I can do better.

Keep rocking guys.

By: Paul H

Paul H — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:33:19 +0000

@Lucas

I’m not entirely sure what the laissez-faire approach to economy is, or FOSS and economy in general. But I stumbled across this article which is kinda interesting though perhaps off the topic: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reversing_the_enterprise_20_pricing_model.php

By: geniusiknowit

geniusiknowit — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:50:53 +0000

I can host a mirror, but my webhost runs on linux. I’ll also be more than happy to help seed torrents.

By: Lucas Weeks

Lucas Weeks — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:21:19 +0000

While not an avid reader of this website, I am aware of the work that you folks do, and I’m appreciative of it. I was very interested by this announcement because I work in the IT industry, and I have been thinking about FOSS for a while now…

The truth is, though, that I have no idea what to think about FOSS *from an economic standpoint*. There are all kinds of open source projects that I find very exciting, and, like many others, my company relies on a fair amount of open source software. Some FOSS proponents say that it aligns perfectly with free-market principles. However, much about the FOSS world, including many of the licenses, smack of socialism to me (the GPL, anyone?).

@moderator:

Perhaps this announcement could spark some discussion here about what FOSS means for those who hold to a laissez-faire approach to the economy? I’d sure appreciate the input from others. I just don’t know what to think…

By: Paul H

Paul H — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:04:50 +0000

@David

thanks, I was trying to sign-up via a flickr Yahoo OpenID, but it says it cant find the openid endpoint..? I’m signing up manually then.

By: TC

TC — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:49:05 +0000

This ROCKS!

The timing couldn’t be better. Something is happening, and if I can feel it here in the liberal bastion of Seattle, I imagine others are sensing it as well.

People have stopped scoffing at what I have to say, and a great many more in an on line community I frequent are eager to learn more. I think some of the lectures that are archived here, would do the job.

By: tz

tz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:28:40 +0000

GPLv3 is better if you actually want to preserve freedom, or one of the corresponding creative commons licenses for the docs.

With BSD, someone can misappropriate the code (consider Microsoft extensions to Kerberos), and there are still concerns about submarine patents on dot-net.

Publish what you want, but remember that there are subtle consequences to the license chosen, and they may be unintended.

By: David Veksler

David Veksler — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:51:09 +0000

> Maybe RSA Networks (http://networks.thersa.org) or Basecamp could be some good choices to get people together and get the discussion/development more structured

We have a Wiki: http://mises.org/Community/wikis/ideas/default.aspx

By: Paul H

Paul H — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:42:15 +0000

.. just thinking. Maybe RSA Networks (http://networks.thersa.org) or Basecamp could be some good choices to get people together and get the discussion/development more structured.

By: Paul H

Paul H — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:57:39 +0000

@Brian

I agree. I’m a noob, but I think hashes (md5) might also be used to kind of CRC check files on the site to ensure that any specific file only exists once. No space for duplicates.

By: Paul H

Paul H — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:51:12 +0000

I like the idea of open-source websites
(I’ve only seen one site before: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/)

I hope you guys are having a good look at Plone (an opensource CMS used on (partly)nasa.gov, longnow.org, rosettaproject.org) and Git (faster than Subversion for repositories, and developed by the founder of Linux, Linus Thorvalds).

You might also be interested in Elance to find freelance programmers of experiance (or similar sites:(http://is.gd/ysf)

Looking forward