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April 18th, 2015, 08:09 AM
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Hobby Projects sandbox community project management
Hi Fellow Developers,
This is more a look for a solution or discussion thread...
What has made me think of this comes out of my situation, fortunately I am still working full time but over recent years have been forced to move from technical development to sales/management roles. So for the past couple of years I have been playing with hobby projects towards a goal, a kind of grouping of ideas in the IIoT and automation field.
The problem I commonly come accross in planning the projects for myself is areas where I have not previously had the expierence or skill set. Being a backend developer (windows services and linux applications/daemons, threads, communication, some embedded, some web MVC, database interfacing etc), I lack the creative flair and design skills for the UI/UX side of any modern project. The other part is I don't want to launch an open source project in case there are any legal commercial aspects I am not aware of and would not like to at the early stages of a hobby project engage legal advice.
Putting aside my specific project problems, I have often thought it would be good for the hobby project developers out there to have a location for a collaboration space like a development sandbox (private) that they could work together without worrying about legal problems. It would be a cross between a forum, some general agreements (legally binding), meetup organisation space (for geographical located groups or online meetings) and probably a private group github project. If and when the participants wanted to take the project from a hobby project to a open source release or commercial release the participants could together discuss the finer details or opt out of the project if they have their own reasons. Options it would hopefully provide the project poster might be preference for geographic, skills desired etc.
Not being a legal maybe this is not possible legally to generalise but I would hope it is given the amount of open source agreements are out there. Or maybe I reprensent too much of a unique scenario for something like this in project management/hobby/start-ups to already exist and be a reasonable idea for a web application. I know as a hobby developer and seperate full time worker I would pay a small fee while my hobby project is active.
Does something exist already? Any like minded feedback would be good (general interest not a legal investigation).
Thanks all.
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April 20th, 2015, 07:29 AM
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Re: Hobby Projects sandbox community project management
If it's a hobby project only for you, then legal matters don't matter at all.
If you are planning to open source or sell at some point in time, then thinking about the legal issues BEFORE YOU BEGIN is the way to go. If not, you could be wasting a lot of time if you discover there's reasons you can't do what you're doing when you're close to completing.
If you are open sandboxing, then legal issues are a concern at the very start. Even if you have a closed project on invitation only with multiple people, then you no longer have any sort of legal fallback to "personal use only", it has become "group use" at that point.
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April 21st, 2015, 07:02 AM
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Re: Hobby Projects sandbox community project management
Thanks OReubens, I see your point and I guess at the moment I am not really wanting to make this sort of jump. I guess for the moment I will keep on going just by myself for the sake of keeping up to date in programming and can look to participating in other open source projects.
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