Proposed Charter for OpenSource WG

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 12:07 +0200, Ondrej Filip wrote:
> Dear RIPE community members!
> I hope many of you were able to follow Martin's presentation during
> today's plenary. For the others I am sending a short summary how this
> idea emerged and also a text of the proposed charter. We will
> appreciate any feedback from you.
> 
> Originally, the open source routing developers of Quagga and BIRD
> wanted to have a space to meet with their product users and therefore
> organized two BoFs at the RIPE meetings. Both BoFs where quite
> successful with reasonable high attendance about fifty people. We had
> very interesting discussion and live exchange of ideas between open
> source developers and users. And it helped to improve both mentioned
> products as some of the requested features were implemented and
> therefore it also helped some of the participants in their
> deployments. On those BoFs an idea of forming RIPE WG emerged. However
> if was felt that to focus only on routing daemon software would be to
> narrow. So the idea was modified to create a working group discussing
> all open source project relevant to RIPE community. This proposed
> working group charter follows:
> 
> ---
> The aim of the Open Source Working Group is to foster discussion among
> developers, ISPs and other RIPE community members about Open Source
> projects related to the RIPE community. The working group believes
> into the future benefits of Open Source in the community and regularly
> discusses new features and advices on developments on selected projects.
> 
> The idea of this WG is really focused on open coordination and
> feedback between developers of Open Source Software and the RIPE
> community. We want to sustain a platform where developers from a
> project can present recent updates, discuss their plans and get
> feedback on their work.
> 
> We do want to limit the coverage on projects related and of interest
> to the RIPE community. Example of Open Source projects which we
> believe are a good fit for the group are Routing products like Bird,
> Quagga, OpenBGPd, XORP and other projects relevant to the community
> like DHCP, Network Management tools like RRDtool, Ntop or Nagios.
> ---
> 
> To test if this idea might work, we propose to have yet another one
> BoF during the next RIPE run similarly as a regular WG session. And in
> case of success we would propose a formation of a new WG.
> 
> Thank you for you comments!
> 
> 	Martin Winter and Ondrej Filip
> 

Nice!

I don't know if Luigi Rizzo is reading this list but
the netmap project is likely to be an interesting topic for
people using open source software routing as well:

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap

Sincerely,

Laurent
http://tetaneutral.net member of http://gitoyen.net
BIRD looking glass free software
http://lg.tetaneutral.net/prefix_bgpmap/gw+h3/ipv4?q=ripe.net