March 20, 2003
The raise of open source subsurbs
The fine people from "The Werken Company":http://www.werken.com/ have opened "codehaus":http://www.codehaus.org/, _an extension of The Werken Company that aims to assist open-source Java developers by providing infrastructure and visibility to interesting, useful and viable projects_.
That brings the count of _open source suburbs_ in my radar to 3: "Krysalis":http://krysalis.org/, codehaus and "cocoondev.org":http://cocoondev.org/. Each suburb has its own characteristics, of course, being focused on specific technology, infrastructure providing or community nurturing. While being very modest about the real inspiration behind "starting up one of them":http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/000491.html, I'm pretty sure now a new trend is rising.