Jan 03 2006

Choosing an Open Source project to get behind

Published by mkennedy at 9:33 pm under Programming, resolutions, 2006, grok open source project

One of my resolutions for the year is to pick an Open Source project to get behind, learn, and hopefully contribute to.

Right now, the options are:

  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • Ruby on Rails

Right now, Drupal seems like the most likely candidate. I say that for several reasons:

  • I have a strong interest in content management systems
  • It seems like one of the more flexible open source CMS’s out there
  • It’s crossed my radar many, many times in the last year
  • It’s PHP, a language I know

Joomla is another open source, PHP content management system, but I just seem to run across Drupal a lot more than Joomla (nee, Mambo).

RoR is interesting to me, and I do think I want to learn how to develop using it, but since Ruby is a completely new language to me, and because I don’t see myself mastering it in such a way that I can contribute good code to the framework, RoR is probably a tool I can learn to use, but not one I can contribute to.

So, we’ll see what I decide to gravitate towards.

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