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Measuring community contributions at LF Collaboration Summit

Folks at the Linux Foundation have just posted a bunch of video from the 2009 Collaboration Summit, including our panel on 8 April, Measuring Community Contribution (Flash video :( … but they do have a downloadable OGG!)  Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier (OpenSUSE community manager) led the panel that included James Bottomly (Linux kernel SCSI maintainer etc.), Dan Frye (IBM’s VP of their open source dev group), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu community manager), and me.  You can see lots of sympatico between everyone, good will, and all that.  Call me a pushover, but I like these guys. :)   You can also hear the nice discussion between Bottomly and Frye, where they are in violent agreement over past IBM mistakes, which The Reg tried to turn in to a controversy.

(Updated with correct date of Wednesday 8 April for the panel.)

This was written by quaid. Posted on Friday, May 1, 2009, at 11:39 am. Filed under Community, Fedora, FLOSS, Linux, Open Source, Presentations. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Jef Spaleta wrote:

    A public archive of the full panel discussion! that rocks!

    I absolutely HATE being beholden to editorialized press coverage of conference or workshop discussions. I hate having to wade through the bias and the sensationalism for a few cherry-picked quotes out of context.

    I wish all the “open source” conference panel discussions were archived for public consumption as a hedge against poor journalism.

    -jef

    Friday, May 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Permalink
  2. quaid wrote:

    If you think that is great, you have to go onward in the video set and watch Jim Zemlin deftly handle Sam Ramji and Ian Murdock.

    Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

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