[MTOS-dev] Welcome to MTOS-dev

[Bud Gibson]

I'm Bud Gibson, publisher of MichiganInnovators.org, and a professor at
Eastern Michigan University.  I think I'm mainly here to lurk for the
moment.  I've been an active contributor on the Pronet list, recently with
the hope that MTOS would come sooner rather than later.

My concrete plans for MTOS are to use it as the platform for
MichiganInnovators.org.  MichiganInnovators.org is a site for the innovation
community in Southeast Michigan. Currently, our main value-add currently is
to act as a showcase for select innovators and as a bridge between the
academic and business communities in our region.   Our assets consist of a
video podcast site with research and teaching notes.

Some of MichiganInnovators needs that might be filled by MTOS and other OSS
tools are as follows:

   - We need media plugins and template sets for podcasting.
   - We need aggregation mechanisms.
   - We need an easy way for non-technical people to write posts that
   produce semantic markup.
   - We need widgets that people can put on their blogs to highlight our
   content.

In the long-run, I'd like to build a community around this site and a
repeatable process that can be exported to other communities.  OSS is
important to us because we want an unencumbered technology infrastructure
that people can contribute to and use.

Bud

On Dec 12, 2007 3:47 PM, Byrne Reese <byrne at sixapart.com> wrote:

> I would like to formally welcome everyone to the mtos-dev mailing list.
> This
> morning we officially launched the MTOS Project [1], and made almost all
> of
> the resources necessary to support the developer community waiting to
> contribute to the project available for the first time.
>
> My name is Byrne Reese. I am the Product Manager of Movable Type, a
> developer myself, and a user of Movable Type for close to 5 years. Movable
> Type changed how I managed my content online in such a profound and
> fundamental way. It ultimately led me to join the Six Apart team and then
> to
> join the Movable Type team itself. A similar story is likely to be told by
> every Six Apart employee.
>
> Anyways, I wanted to introduce myself and welcome everyone else who feels
> comfortable doing so and who is interested in participating in the
> development process of MTOS to raise their hand and introduce themselves
> as
> well.
>
> I also wanted to provide the members of this mailing list with an overview
> of what this list is for and how we initially envision using it. As with
> all
> things online, mailing lists can sometimes take on a life of their own -
> so
> this list is likely to evolve over time. It is not my desire to force this
> list into a mold of any kind, but to leave it to the members of the list
> to
> create the type of environment appropriate for all of our needs.
>
> That being said, the goal of this list is to support developers actively
> working on the MTOS code base. This list is also meant to serve as the
> means
> by which we as a community can review and give each other feedback on the
> contributions we want to make to the core product. More details about this
> process can be found on the MTOS web site [2].
>
> Finally, a brief status update: the launch of MTOS was a larger endeavor
> then we had originally planned. As a result, not all of our I's are dotted
> and T's crossed. You can find the latest information of where we are as a
> community on the MTOS Status page [3]. I welcome people to check that out.
> I
> keep it as up to date as possible, updating several times a day as
> necessary.
>
> That is all I wanted to say as an introduction. Again, welcome everyone to
> this exciting new day for Movable Type and its community. I could not be
> happier with the work the team and community has done so far, nor could I
> be
> more optimistic about the future of Movable Type!
>
> Sincerely,
> Byrne Reese
> Developer, Fan, Product Manager
> Movable Type
>
> [1] http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html
> [2] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/contributions.html
> [3] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/status.html
>
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Bud Gibson
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