I’ve blogged often about our efforts around RDF and UDD in recent times.
This time, we have used triplify to export contents of some tables of the Debian UDD database to provide information about Debian bugs facts as RDF feeds (using our ontology based on EvoOnt BOM).
More details at : https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/TriplifyUddToRdf including a link to the demonstration server.
In the “Development” track of the recent LSM/RMLL 2009, we (Stephane Laurière and me) have presented two related speeches, about the use of Semantic Web technology in the frame of Open Source projects development.
Stéphane presented SWIM : Semantic Web enabled Issue Manager, which presents an integration of Semantic Web techniques in the Mandriva community support site, and on the desktop. It’s based on results of projects Nepomuk, Helios and Scribo.
I have also presented Tracking bugs on the (Semantic) Web, which explores the use of Semantic Web techniques (RDF) as a mean to render bugtrackers interoperable, to be able to track bugs to the scale of the whole Semantic Web. This is also based on the work we do in the frame of the Helios project.
Enjoy the slides attached to the linked pages above.
Thanks to Frédéric Peters, I’ve discovered that Gnome is using DOAP to describe projects in its Git.
At http://git.gnome.org/repositories.doap, one will find the complete agregated DOAP and FOAF description for the projects of Gnome and their maintainers.
My collegue Vu, who’s researching on such social networks has graphed the following image :
which shows projects in red, and their maintainers in green.
More analysis later maybe, but the image is already nice in its own 
Update : a more detailed representation is available (see comments bellow).
Of course I’m a bit biased because I couldn’t attend other tracks as I was chairing the “Development” track at LSM/RMLL, and because I “selected” the speakers.
I’m really glad to have welcome so many interesting presentations on development questions in libre software projects (or with libre software).
There are much too many interesting bits to mention, and I’m still recovering from the holidays after the conference, but you’ll already find most of the slides attached to the articles (french versions) linked from : http://2009.rmll.info/-Developpement-.html
Some videos will follow sooner or later.
Enjoy !
With our help (in the frame of our work on Mantis in the Helios project), the version in Debian testing of Mantis is now in sync with upstream (1.1.8) : http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mantis/news/20090709T163923Z.html
Next steps, integrate Mantis in the Helios platform for real… and maybe more contributions in Mantis, and maybe on the Mandriva packaging of it. Stay tuned.
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