Current mood:

busy

Brief Updates
Well, I'm back after an internship hiatus. Sad to leave, as it was a good experience, but I have lots of work to do now that I'm back. My project updates page is up and running (and no longer static) and I'm turning my full focus towards my candidacy paper until that finishes. As such, development work is on hold. I'm hoping to have my candidacy paper finished by the end of October and my topic defense by the winter holidays. Still working on the precise schedule, though. I'll also have to see about committee member availability.

A brief bit of research related stuff- I read the chapter on "The Open Source Process" (don't get me started on that title) in Sean Egan's book on Gaim development and, interestingly enough, it features an organizational structure as a pyramid, in contrast to the onion diagrams we typically use. Interesting that he self-identified (perhaps even unknowingly ;) their organizational structure that way. Richard Gabriel and Ron Goldman also talk about the onion diagram in their book, "Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy."