Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
Today Joyent is releasing the source code for our Connector and Slingshot products under the GPL v2. You can get immediate access to the code through our developer portal here. SVN is here.
No longer will those of us committed to open source need to use products from companies that do not open their source. This is Bastille day for software on the web. The cracks in Windows dominance on the desktop are visible. Let’s not repeat the mistake of building monopolistic overlords on the internet. We are not interested in making some proprietary stack of applications the Windows of the Web. We hope you agree.
Want a better email client on the web? You can add those features to Joyent Connector Mail. Want to use the best web calendar? Help build Joyent Connector Calendar. And we even offer a free account so that you can contribute and use your code on Joyent’s hosted infrastructure. Let’s not wait for G***le or Y***o or M*N or someone else to give us the web we want. We can do that now. Does your mother have a feature request to make the calendar better? Now you can do it. And have your work used and appreciated by people around the world.
Connector and Slingshot. Better than free. Open.
29 Responses
I’m sure I’m just being thick about this, but is there a way to grab the source as a tgz or SVN export? All I can find is the retrospectiva code browser — not much use for hacking.
Now we know why things have been so quiet lately. Big congratulations people, not just on the achievement but for the courage and vision.
svn is at http://svn.joyent.com/opensource/
Awesome guys! I can’t wait to see some more documentation in the wiki about this.
This is stunning news which should make a lot of people happy.
Hopefully it will get more people to use your Accelerator infrastructure because that’s the most brilliant and flexible platform ever. Using anything else is just dumb.
Congratulations, I really apreciate this step. Open sourcing some piece of great software is always a risk (so it seems falsely). Makes me feel I made the right step to host with TxD.
It’s really great. I love this cool piece of software. I hope you will write some docs about it, because I took the code and run in some troubles with the setup.
Just put a dutch article about this news on our site here
Congrats
I have put up some installation instructions to the point that it all falls apart for me.
I’ve dumped the results in a ticket
If you get past this step, please update the wiki + ticket.
Congrats on releasing the connector and slingshot code under a open source license.
I’m running it with MySQL, seems to running fine on all controllers other than mail and calendar. I expected mail not to work, since I don’t have a maildir locally setup, but the Calendar error is unexpected. I’ll be posting more about my adventures here.
This is awesome and truly amazing! I am compelled that you guys made the decision to do this. I can see so many benefits and the fact I’ve used connector since the early days.
Has anyone tried checking out this code on a Windows computer? I’m seeing invalid file names.
This is absolutely amazing. It’s great to see that there are people with true vision and commitment to OSS in this industry.
thank you and congrats to all the Joyent staff.
@ David Young: fyi, the “Free Sign Up” button on the http://joyent.com/connector/pricing/ webpage redirects to the https://customer.joyent.com/signup page. this page doesn’t contain any option to continue signing up for the free account.
@Besonen: it shouldn’t. The next page is a page for collecting organization information. I believe it is correct.
This is awesome!
I have been waiting for this B-Day since the announcment back in June! Checking out joyent everyday since end of June and awaits for the announcement.
Can’t wait to check this out!
BTW, all the best to everyone in the joyent. I know it takes a lot of effort in getting to this spot.
@ David Young: cookies were blocked in the browser i was using. you might want to throw up some information about allowing/requiring cookies rather than silently failing.
hi,
Cheers for open sourcing
after seeing AIR, google gears, silverlight and many others , I was longing for an open source implementation.
I am on windows I am unable to do a checkout from SVN have tried tortoisesvn, svn and also on cygwin I get the following error
svn: Can’t move ‘web\test\fixtures\mail_root\joyent.joyent.com\ian\Maildir\cur\1
159907087.M423564P19340V01980007I0007607F_2.unknown,S=2358:2,FT.2.tmp’ to ‘web\t
est\fixtures\mail_root\joyent.joyent.com\ian\Maildir\cur\1159907087.M423564P1934
0V01980007I0007607F_2.unknown,S=2358:2,FT’: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
regards
Senthil
just brilliant. Your vision and commitment is astonishing. It will be an honor hacking on this code base
I’m gonna ask my mum for agenda features
Furthermore I discovered Retrospectiva . It seems to be a cool development tool.
I tried now. The main page is loading, but when I try to access /home/calendar for example, I get an error message: NoMethodError in AuthenticatedController#home
You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.match
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/authenticated_controller.rb:70:in `home’
I don’t know, why it can’t ready the path.
can we have a connector-dev mailing list?
This is a good day
Very nice move, Joyent Inc!
Congrats
That’s great news! Congratulations and yet again, this is a demonstration that openness and collaboration work very well and are business friendly
More reasons for me to keep on recommending Joyent to everyone I know.
+1 for a connector-dev mailing list
You can find the mailing list here.
There is a list at http://lists.joyent.com/mailman/listinfo/dev