Open Source Cycling

Git is a version control system that is all the rage in the open source community right now.  Part of that is due to the fact that Linus Torvalds built it to help manage his work on the Linux kernel, and his project has a pretty good reputation for getting things done.  It is now an independent project, and many people are using it get things done in their software projects in a collaborative way, or even independently but just in a more productive manner.  You can find plenty of current blog posts about it.

Github is also "where it’s happenin’" in the OS community.  They just launched their website as a subscription service, Rails moved over, and lots of developers are paying attention to the play-by-play action there and even playing their own part.  Git makes it easy to participate (or at least easier).

 Just what the doctor ordered.  A working example of another software geek porting the principals of open-source to a seemingly unrelated operation.  It’s a nightclub in San Francisco called DNA Lounge.  Although their management is not necessarily a distributed team of core contributors, they have published all the bits that make their club run, from the sound to the lights to the laws to the operating systems and software, for the benefit of anyone interested.  Cool concept!