Hello Olly
On 09/01/2005, you wrote:
Christophe Ochal wrote:
Hello,
Sofar the list i've assembled is:
For those of us who are recieving posts in the wrong order, and just to be generally well organised, it might be an idea for you to point out exactly what we're voting for, and who all of these people are :)
The vote is for the head honcho, or leader (or dictator, tiran, manager, whatever you want to call it) this person will be in charge of forming a team & get the action going.
this is what i've gathered sofar:
Available persons for head honcho role:
Amon_Re
"I'm not experianced in managing large projects, but i have the determination to get this thing rolling.
My experiances involve php coding, i have a fair understanding of C, and i also do installerscripts.
That's it really."
Rincewynd: "Not sure how I can help at this point, but here's an overview of my work-experience: - 5 years of 4GL programming. (No C/C++ alas, so I can't be helping programming); - 7 years of information systems design; - about the same (7 years) of database design (relational databases); - 2 years IT-consultancy; - 1.5 years (not fulltime) of managing small programming projects; - Too many years of writing development documentation (Functional Design, Technical Design, End-user docs); - I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
I've taken a closer look at my schedule, and I'd like to make myself available for the following: - 'replacement' manager. At the moment I don't have the time to take part of the management of this project on me, but this'll change in a few months. So if one of the to be appointed managers has to leave in the future I'll prolly be available. I do have management experience, tho not for a project this big. - PR/Community management. The user community will want to hear about the projects' progress. If we decide to provide periodical status-updates to said community, I'm willing to put these together. There will likely also be a myriad of other questions from the user community that will need to be addressed."
TonyW: "I have been an electronics engineer and low-level programmer for 35 years. Now retired (and 60 yrs) I am enjoying myself playing with my A1. I am an OS4 betatester and I am currently translating the old 68k assembler console.device into ANSI C code.
I am most experienced with plain C, written for embedded devices. For instance, I have written the EFI software for my campervan, and designed and built all the hardware. I have not written much graphics code or code using OS3/4 libraries other than the basic CLI libs. At my last job I wrote embedded SW switching audio and data communications signals, and designed the hardware to go with it.
Some years ago I updated the OS3.9 68k port of Kaffe and made the interpreter and JIT engines wok properly. Since then the code base has changed and I will go back to it again when I can build it on OS4. Hopefully some of the new tools will make that possible soon.
I expect to be fully occupied with console.device for the next few months. Possibly around the end of March I will be able to help with coding for OpenOffice.
I am not a Linux guru, but I can find my way slowly.
Management: although I have had some management experience, I am not comfortable in such a position, and prefer to be a "back room engineer". I could assist with one of the teams later on.
Availability: as I said, I won't be able to do much for OO.A for a couple of months. I will be away on holidays for all of February and July."
Mark: "I'll probably regret this, but I'll put myself forward to HELP with the project management:
First of all I think this is way to big a project for 1 person to manage it (especially as it will be done on a voluntary basis) and so if possible the project should be broken down ito several tasks (or sub-projects) and each sub-project has its own manager, with possibly one co-ordinator at the top level.
About me:
I am currently a Systems Manager at The Open University, this involves (amongst other things) managing IT projects (never done a coding project though). I'm also one of the site developers at AW.net, I have (in my university years ;-) ) done some C, but its not up to much currently."
Argo: No info available
Regards