Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Tom Callaway, the man of FAIL

Last Thursday the 1st, Tom Callaway visited WNE and gave a presentation on his scale of fail which can be found here: http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html. Earlier in the semester we scaled GNOME Cheese and Eikga as two OSS projects and how much they fail, but having him talk about each point of the scale was informative. Some of the things such as  Licensing and Code Oddities did not make a lot of sense going through the first time, but after he explained, the points were much more clearer. Knowing that every point within the scale have occurred at least once is quite humorous and having Tom tell stories about them was well worth the time.