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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Linux Site O' The Month: SourceXchange</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:slambo@linuxstart.com">Sean Lamb</a></H4>
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<H2>What's This?</H2>
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<P> This article is the the current installment in an ongoing series of site
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reviews for the Linux community. Each month, I will highlight a Linux-related
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site and tell you all about it. The intent of these articles is to let you
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know about sites that you might not have been to before, but they will all have
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to do with some aspect of Linux. Now, on with the story...
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<H2>SourceXchange (<a
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href="http://www.sourcexchange.com/"><tt>http://www.sourcexchange.com/</tt></a>)</H2>
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<P>In past columns we looked at places to find information about
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troubleshooting your Linux installation. We looked at some language and
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development sites. We looked at some of the tools that you can use to put
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together GUI-based apps quickly and efficiently. So, now that you're an
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accomplished developer-hacker... Wouldn't it be nice to get paid for
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developing open source applications?
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<P>You bet yer sweet petootie it would be nice. After all, that new dual
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Athlon system was a little more than chump change for the month's allowance.
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This month, we look at SourceXchange.
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<P>SourceXchange is a member of the
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<A HREF="http://Collab.net">Collab.net</A> network that has been getting a
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bunch of press this month, especially with Sun's announcement that they'll be
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opening the source to Star Office (yes, I'm already on that mailing list, and
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I hope to be able to help out with some documentation or code), and hosting
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the project on Collab.net servers. SourceXchange offers quite a bit to the
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budding and established open source developer, including peer reviews, project
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hosting, spec writing and the chance to get paid for your work.
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<P>We'll get to the money in a little bit, but let's take a look at what else
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is there first. SourceXchange's goal is to unite open source developers with
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projects that fit a need. If you've taken a look at some of the development
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boards recently, there's a growing list of developers who are looking for
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projects to work on. The "what should I do now?" question seems to be popping
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up more often.
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<P>With this site, the developer doesn't have to spend the time and energy to
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work up a challenging project, hop over to the RFP (Request For Proposal)
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section and see if any of the unbid projects are of interest. As this article
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was being written there were RFPs for accessing image manipulation utilities,
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developing a message board in PHP, and a few different RFPs for BXXP support
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in various utilities. Each RFP includes what the contractor is looking for in
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terms of skills and deliverables and how much the contractor is willing to
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pay, both in cash and materials. If one of the RFPs strikes your fancy, you
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can comment on it and express interest in offering your services to the
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project.
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<P>If you want to help out but don't want to work on the code itself,
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SourceXchange also offers Peer Reviewer positions. The Peer Reviewer is just
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that, a peer reviewer; this is someone who will help the developer and guide
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and review the progress toward the goal, acting as a third-party mediator to
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ensure that the project is both completed and done well.
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<P>Once all the players are selected, and the teams are finalized, the work
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can begin. SourceXchange provides a convenient place to post the status of
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the deliverables as well as the developer and reviewer information, project
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location and mailing list information and other pertinent details about the
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project. Developers are free to use whatever tools and hosting methods they
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need, according to the terms that have been decided between them and the
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project sponsors.
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<P>When the projects are complete, SourceXchange ensures that the developers
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recieve the peer review that is necessary to provide complete, accurate and
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robust code, as well as the compensation that they were promised from the
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project sponsors.
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<P>You can view the RFPs and project invormation without registering, but to
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really get the most out of this site, you do have to sign up and work. If
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you want to be a part of a growing interest in open source development by big
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business, you owe it to yourself to register as a developer and get on one of
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these projects. These projects may be substantially more than the Hello World
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applets that we all know and love, but the compensation offered is nothing to
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sneeze at either.
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Copyright © 2000, Sean Lamb<BR>
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Published in Issue 56 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, August 2000</H5>
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