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First keynote – crush or trash at #SCALE8x?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

This past Saturday I gave my first keynote at the eighth Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8x), and I was pretty pleased with the results.  Informal survey says I crushed it, but you can take a look yourself below.  (Part 1 and Part 2)
Overall, the keynote went great.  No real glitches and I survived the [...]

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Improving the FLOSS legal landscape

Monday, February 22, 2010

At the close of SCALE 8x I caught a presentation by my colleague Richard Fontana, who was talking on Improving the Open Source Legal System.  Richard’s proposal is to consider FLOSS licensing and legal landscape as its own international legal system.  This is instead of how we do it now, which is to try mapping [...]

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Finishing SCALE 8x with a *whew*

Sunday, February 21, 2010

From the big drive down, the FAD on Friday, through my keynote on Saturday, and the flurry of the event following that, I’m finishing off SCALE 8x with Richard Fontana’s talk on improving FOSS licensing. (Addendum, I was when I wrote that, but now it’s the next morning, epic drive home complete.)
“I like the [...]

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Talk legalese with us – Red Hat booth Saturday at SCALE 8x

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

As of this week’s plan, Richard Fontana and I are going to be at the Red Hat booth from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday 20 February at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x.
Being careful not to give legal advice, I think we’ll be there to have freeform discussions around:

How and why we do [...]

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Community handbook – The Open Source Way

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Introducing a community book written by a community.
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki (read and participate)
http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/book (HTML, HTML single page, PDF)
This is a handbook for creating and nurturing communities of contributors.  It was originally thought of as a cookbook to provide recipes for enacting community the open source way.  It is released under the Creative Commons BY SA 3.0 Unported [...]

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Understanding opensource.com

Thursday, January 28, 2010

This week saw opensource.com kicked out of the nest and told to fly.  I’ve been watching some of the discussion around it and have some comments about a bit of confusion some folks are having.   Please pass this along.
What I see here is a new type of discussion …
… one where our experiences in free/libre [...]

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Contributor CV and recommendations

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Listening to a call about the cool stuff our Community Architecture team is doing with education (such as POSSE and opensource.com/education), I had an idea.  Is it a simple idea?  Yes.  An elegant idea?  So far.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contributor_CVs
It’s an opt-in system to track an individual’s contributions and recommendations from others within the Fedora Project community.  (Naturally, FLOSS [...]

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Building a business around sustainable open source engineering

Monday, November 23, 2009

A Twitter discussion thread (a) (b, c, d) made me want to i) lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, ii) provide some examples you may not have thought of, and iii) find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!)
Sustainable open source engineering [...]

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Calling out superrockstars considered harmful

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Just a quick response to “Top Open Source technical writers on the Web”.
First, I’m sure the intention was well-meant.  Thanks for trying to uplift open source technical writers.
Second, I put in a comment response on the blog entry, which was more self-serving than helpful:
Not sure what the metrics used are … but it is worth [...]

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Shelf space – you can’t make it up as you go

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Today I had an exchange via Twitter with my friend Sean, who reminded me about a point we’ve previously discussed face-to-face, “… #opensource #FAIL meter http://bit.ly/nBcYz too Linux-centric – doesn’t apply to Java, Web or Ajax …”  My point back was, “… It applies if you want to deploy on #Linux … don’t #h8 your [...]

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