Johan's blog

How to organize developer communities

I prefer to attend technical sessions where I can learn technical things, but there is a good reason why I attended two sessions about building a developer community. My company LodgON made our DaliCMS Content and Community Management System available under the Apache Open Source license.

Managing an Open Source project requires more than just making the code available. You need documentation, and a community that facilitates development. Recently, DaliCMS became a GlassFish incubator project, and it is available now at http://dalicms.dev.java.net. Being part of the Java.net co mmunity is something important to me. It shows our commitment to Java in general and to GlassFish in particular.

At LodgON, we know that we have a lot of work to do on the organization of the DaliCMS developer community. We also have to simplify and clarify the build procedure. We will do that, and more code, examples and documentation will be added to the dalicms.dev.java.net site. Meanwhile, people that are interested can have a look at the current site at dalicms.org, or drop us a mail at info(at)dalicms.org.

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