A CompSoc talk: www.compsoc.net
Martin Michlmayr: Quality Issues in Free Software Projects
Wednesday 20:30, Comlab
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The nature of open source software means that it faces unique
quality-control issues. Martin will give an overview of common
quality issues found in both large and small free software
projects, and discuss strategies and techniques which can be
implemented in a free software project to ensure quality and to
maintain a stable quality process. Martin Michlmayr is the
current Debian (Linux) Project Leader and has been involved in
various free software projects for about 10 years.
Details for the talk this Sunday are as follows:
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Open Source at fotopic.net
Gareth Ardron
Sunday 16th January
6.30pm
Venue: Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road
(entrance at corner of walkway up concrete steps)
Afterwards: In the Lamb and Flag, St Giles'
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Fotopic.Net was born from the minds of husband and wife team Joel and
Nicky Rowbottom, and began life on 2nd August 1999 as
Photos.jml.net: as with all good ideas it arose out of a laziness on
Joel's part for publishing images from their new digital camera. As
time went on, more and more people asked for either copies of the
engine which ran the site, or whether we could run a gallery for
them... so eventually we gave in and wrote Fotopic.Net.
The site is the culmination of several years of work, together with an
almost fanatical obsession with digital photography. During our fourth
year we expanded the facilities to include multiple image formats,
direct publishing from the new generation of mobile phone cameras, a
variety of PDF facilities, live thumbnails, fast image processing, and
the most configurable photo gallery system to date. We've also survived
the so-called dot-com crash which left many other photo sites without
users.
