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More on OSDrawer

As promised, here is little more information on the new website OSDrawer.net. OSDrawer is to become a meeting point both for developers and for the whole BeOS / Haiku / Zeta community. The site will host a system for the development of opensource projects, and offers the management of the source, a bug tracker, mailing lists, and a software repository that will become a meeting place for the community, world wide.
Although most of this information is already on ICO, here is a short email interview I had with Francesca from OSDrawer:

- Who are behind the OSDrawer team?

Andrea: he keeps track of the relations with the italian beos community. He also is the admin of the Italian Beos User Group website ( www.itbug.org). As for this site he'll take care of the graphic and the management of the projects.

Enrico: he is an expert sysadmin of IBM AIX that has a growing interest for Haiku's opensource world. Thanks to his knowledge he installed the server and had some night-long works to ensure a good working of the site.

Francesca: she's our translator and interpreter. At the time being she takes care of all our public relations.

- What was the motive to start a project like this, since BeOS related projects can also use SourceForge?

As haiku is almost ready we thought that having the possibilty of tieing all opensource projects together could have been an important input to the developement of new projects.

- Does the demise of BeUnited have a part in this?

Let's say around an 80%.. we already had the idea, but the demise was the thing that made us start.

- Did you have contact with the BeGroovy team, as they offered to take over the hosting of several projects from BeUnited?

Yes, we are cooperating with the Deej.

- Will OSDrawer stay Haiku/Zeta only, or will it also be available for non-BeOS projects?

No, for the time being we're planning to have only BeOs related projects

- Are there plans for other things than hosting software projects?

Yes, definitely, what isn't written on the introduction email, but might be interesting, is that we have just uploaded a jabber server, every user has now the possibility of chatting with the community through jabber protocol.

- Are there any projects that will be on OSDrawer soon?

We already have some projects in our drawer :) and we are contacting all developers that have been working in opensource projectd related to BeOs world.

- Is the OSDrawer team planning on doing their own software development as well?

Right now the OsDrawer team is really busy, but as soon as everything gets going we probably will.

- Are you in any way affiliated to Magnussoft or Haiku inc?

No, we're totally independent. but we are in contact with both teams.

As of today, deej from BeGroovy announced that after consideration BeGroovy will not be taking over the home-less projects from BeUnited. Code that is currently not hosted elsewhere will be transfered to OSDrawer. At this moment OSDrawer already has five active projects and almost 30 registered users. With BeUnited gone and BeClan very silent, let's hope that OSDrawer will be crowded with both developers and users, and of course lot's of new software!