On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Whitworth, Cliff
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> NOOB to list and am appreciative of this discussion. My boss is encouraging me to share code and pointed me to code4lib. the majority of my code is recycled / repurposed from others so I've had reservations about sharing mainly because of what's taken from others. At the least, I'm mindful about leaving acknowledgements intact. Is there a good resource on how to start sharing code and ethical considerations?
Howdy and welcome Cliff!
In short, I think there's a push over the past few years to share more
and more code, even when it's small. There's a lot of individuals
scattered in the library world who are not necessarily on local teams
who end up doing the same work over and over again. There's some
tension with this as there's also projects that tend to get abandoned
or just don't have as much support and community as they could.
I've been bad about releasing source myself. I've got a barrier in
our lawyers, who I really need to push to let me have more leeway for
releasing stuff.
There's been a couple of articles over the years on the code4lib journal, see...
First, an argument on why to just put stuff out there by Dale Askey:
COLUMN: We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/527
See Terry Reese's excellent article in the latest issue: Purposeful
Development: Being Ready When Your Project Moves From ‘Hobby’ to
Mission Critical http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6393
Michael Doran gave an excellent talk a few years back that really
stuck in my head with the very issue I've been reluctant to put more
effort into: lawyers and code: The Intellectual Property Disclosure:
OpenSource in Academia
21:09 - 4 years ago
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3341633878207243364
There's a lot of other good articles in the journal and on people's
various blog posts. Github is all the rage these days, so at some
point I'll need to figure out how to use it ;).
Again, welcome!
Jon Gorman
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