Posted by Jack Repenning on June 13, 2008
My friend Ben Collins-Sussman illustrated — just last night — one of the key tools of building and maintaining community in an open- or inner-source world: open-source conversations about open-source relations. And boy, this source is really open! As I write this, the post has been up for about twelve hours, and there are 37 comments: around three an hour, in the middle of the night, for a personal blog that spends as much time talking about exotic musical instruments and canned tuna as it does programming topics!
Banjos and tuna may be non sequiturs, but they’re just the sort of human voice a community needs, to establish the relationships that allow challenging insights about programmer psychology, tool use, and proper practices.
Jack Repenning is Chief Technology Officer at CollabNet. Jack joined CollabNet in 2002; as chief product architect he was primarily responsible for building the product architecture that enabled CollabNet to grow its user base to well over one million users. Jack is also an early member of the wildly successful Subversion open source project, a version control system that is widely viewed as the de facto new industry standard. Consistently engaged in developer productivity topics, Jack has participated in open source software projects since the early 1980’s. Prior to joining CollabNet, Jack worked at well-known Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett Packard, SGI, Informix, and Rational where he developed expertise in a wide range of technical areas, ranging from inside the kernel to GUI and database design, as well as data center deployment architecture.
Jack holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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