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Keeping an open source project going for 27 years

on YouTube 35m
Talkat FOSS Backstage 2022 · on Thursday, 2022-03-17· at 14:00· Stage 3· [open-source]

speaker

name:Jim Hall
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/QnKzOANmtk4
slides:none on file

summary

FreeDOS starts in 1994 to recreate DOS and remains active 27 years later with a running OS, command‑line utilities, drivers and an internationalization library; files live via ftp on sunsite/iBiblio and source and patches flow through developer and user mailing lists that separate troubleshooting from kernel work. Community practices include clear list rules (no swearing, no spam, no flame wars), monthly video meetups, documented on freedos.org, and removing three or four people for repeated abuse.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction to FreeDOS
  2. 10:43Founding FreeDOS project
  3. 11:48Key to community growth
  4. 18:23Project communication tools
  5. 21:52Open source code sharing
  6. 23:36Non-developer contributions
  7. 26:48Project takeaways and Q&A

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