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an interesting conclusion about how to turn new and casual contributors into long-time community members: the key is to distribute ownership.

To wrap up, there were several things that motivated me to stay active in the Mozilla community: * A belief in the mission of the project — to create a web browser that supports and promotes the use of open standards * An interest in the technology — initially with the Gecko logo as my hook * The feeling of belonging in a community of people with similar interests * The desire to give something back to a project that gave (and still gives) me the best browser in the world for free * The experiences gained by managing a website — HTML, CSS, server configurations, and perhaps most importantly, the English language * The recognition and respect from Mozilla project members for my contributions * The pride of being responsible for an important piece of the project

There are python packages available to work with Excel files that will run on any Python platform and that do not require either Windows or Excel to be used. They are fast, reliable and open source:

xlrd

MOAI is a platform for aggregating content from different sources, and publishing it through the Open Archive Initiatives protocol for metadata harvesting. It’s been built for academic institutional repositories dealing with relational metadata and asset files.

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well.

So, in a nutshell, here is a tick-list for an architecture for participation:

* Open Source Implementations

* Test Suites

* Continuous Integration

* Wiki Driven Documentation

* Small, Lightweight Specifications

* Free and Open Licensing

I've published a manifesto for this approach in the form of a gnomic sampler on http://standeace.com, a contraction of "Standards" and "Peace":

Structurée autour du Do it yourself (Faites le vous-mêmes !) et du Green design (cette conception écologique qui se veut soutenable dans sa nature même), la principale question posée au cours de Lift France 2009 fut de savoir jusqu’où les concepts couramment utilisés dans le monde du web (participation, open source, réplication infinie des informations, etc.) pouvaient quitter les écrans d’ordinateurs pour envahir le monde physique.

Learn how to build mapping applications using GeoDjango, the leading open source geographic web framework.

BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices.

Falcon-AO, a prominent component of Falcon, is an automatic ontology matching system that helps actualize interoperability between (Semantic) Web applications that use different but related ontologies. Recently, it has become a very practical and popular choice for matching Web ontologies expressed by RDF(S) and OWL. Falcon-AO is implemented in Java, and presently, it is an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.