General Open Source Topics

[epelegrillopart]

I'm going to post a number of messages on the general topic of the Community Wiki.  I'll start with a few messages on general categories that I believe make sense to include in the Community Wiki.  Any and all feedback is very wellcome.

[epelegrillopart]

One page per Open Source Component at GitHub.

Information in the page would include:

 * Name

 * GitHub repo

 * Contact/Owner of port

 * Configuration / Build instructions

 * License

 * Upstream community

 * Other links (Wikipedia)

 * Notable use cases

Plus links to BB-10/PlayBook-specific information on how to use it, like gotcha's, blog posts, screencasts, discussion forums, etc.

Thoughts?  Additional information?

[epelegrillopart]

In a per-geography (granularity to be decided - and most likely to be adjusted), to track things like 

 * User-Groups

 * MeetUps

 * Regular events happening in this geography

 * ???

What else should be listed?

[epelegrillopart]

I'm specially interested in feedback in this category.  I think this category is useful now, given that some documentation is not yet fully fleshed-out; I'm less clear whether of its usefulness later.

Each command (or collection of commands?) would have an entry. Structure may be similar to that of a unix MAN page?

Entry would include a description of the command, maybe some examples, maybe longer description of some flag usage.  If there is official documentation for the command, then the page can point to it.

[epelegrillopart]

A developer community has many "sub"communities.  This category will provide entry pages for each of these.  Regardless of whether they are "open source" communities, or "for-profit" groups; if they have a presence in the community and want to engage the BB10/PB/BBOS community, they can have a page here, although we will want to provide enough guideance so that the pages do not become advertisements.

Examples of subcommunities would be (not exhaustive - just listing to help in conversations):

  * Apache Cordova  (nee PhoneGap) - Cross-Platform HTML5 platform

  * Sencha (Touch, etc) - Cross-Platform HTML5 library

  * Other commercial vendors with strong PlayBook products and a community around them

  * Adobe (Toolings for PlayBook/HTML5/...)

  * Marmalade (cross-platform native library)

  * Unity, Unreal (highly portable game engines)

Commercial/for-profit partners are a key part of the community and can get entries in the Wiki.  I think the meta-principle should be: if <FOO> helps create a larger ecosystem of developers for the platform, <FOO> belongs here.

Maybe my only concern is avoiding dilution of efforts; so I may focus initially more on certain areas to make sure they are covered, but the nice thing about a community effort is that others can focus elsewhere...

[epelegrillopart]

Another is a plain FAQ.  Need to align with the official Knowledge Base, etc, but a Wiki can move pretty quickly.

See for example the Q from absmall on devmode -

  http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Native-SDK-for-BlackBerry-Tablet/Blackberry-connect-ssh-ing-v...