Today we finalized our team project (which will be the RapidSMS project) and we will be spending the rest of this semester working with it. It should be an interesting project but perhaps the most important hurdle of determining what particular aspect of it that we really want to focus on is looming ahead. I was able to easily join the IRC for RapidSMS, which was surprisingly easy to do (I was even able to add a custom link from my blog to it as well—see the bottom of this page). Since IRC is also a new venue for me, I am not sure if I am overlooking something because I really don't see any "traffic" or chatter on the IRC. At the present time there are only 4 other people signed in (besides myself) and I honestly don't see any interaction between them or anything there to do other than to "chat" with them. I'll check back later on that one!
I also successfully joined their Google group with NO problems. You actually had to be approved for membership by filling out a short form and giving your reasons for wanting to join (probably to keep out bots or something) and it took less than 20 minutes for them to send my "acceptance to the group" email. Once arriving at the group's main page it is obvious that LOTS of communication goes on here! With just some simple browsing around I'm seeing a variety of issues discussed on this page—it should be helpful, more on that too later. I went ahead and placed that link on my blog page as well so I won’t have to bookmark it (see top right corner).
I still have to read “The Cathedral and the Bazarr” but probably won’t get to that until tomorrow—so that’ll give me something to add then.
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