I’ve always considered myself to be a FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) advocate and a participant in the Linux and Open Source communities. However, a comment or two on this blog have suggested to me that I perhaps have not been as community-minded as I ought.
Just being a Linux or Open Source user doesn’t make one a part of the community — a point that has been lost on me in recent years as I’ve been unable to participate in things like Redbook residencies and mailing lists that were my (albeit small) contributions to community.
So, in response to my web traffic and comments on the blog, I’ve decided to start up a site to release and track the little utilities I write (and write about) that help me run my systems. If they’re useful to me, they might be useful to you — and together we might be able to make them better for both of us.
The site will be here.
First item to be released will be my little hacked LDAP Caller-ID name lookup script for FreePBX (just please stand by while I work out a nice way to place a file for downloading, until then you can view it in the SVN). After that, I plan on creating a Gentoo Portage overlay (or at least copies of my ebuilds) for folks who are interested in the same custom versions of things that I am (like DHCP servers with LDAP backends).
There are sure to be teething problems, but please place feedback either in comments here or on the site itself.
To those who gave me the nudge to get this done, thank you!
PS: This is really part-time, and so I will be keeping it as low-maintenance as possible. Since I have no time to monitor Wiki spam, the Trac has ‘anonymous’ wiki editing disabled right now. When I can, and if there’s a need, I’ll work out a way for users to register and make updates.
Crossed Wires 