One of the response’s I got to from the call for writers for the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook was an offer of an excellent content source, Terry Hancock’s book Achieving Impossible Things With Free Culture and Commons-Based Enterprise. This is a great example of a longer work that the Practical OSS Exploration textbook […]
Category Archives: Fedora
Big weekend in Utah
05-Oct-10It’s the last day flurry around here as we get ready for Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC) this weekend. On Wednesday, my girls and Larry and his girl are catching a train in Emeryville, CA. It’s a 19 hour journey to Salt Lake City, which seems long but is only 7 more hours each way […]
Hey! Do you want to help us write the next version of the first textbook that teaches open source participation? We need writers, editors, reviewers, and researchers to find or create content on: Testing code in FOSS communities. Working in open communities. Different types of open source community cultures. Open communities and diversity. Licensing FOSSÂ […]
This is a very exciting opportunity where free and open source software (FOSS) and other organizations meet for mutual benefit and the advancement of open source participation. Who might get to take advantage of this? Perhaps some people who do not yet even know how they can, as a part of their day job in […]
Do you like knocking on doors?
15-Sep-10As it happens, I don’t. I’m a bit terrified by it. But many people relish the opportunity to help someone solve a problem they didn’t even know they had, or did know but didn’t know who to turn to. Or they have it solved, but in an unsatisfactory way. That’s where the people who will […]
Understanding computer scientists
13-Sep-10This the question I’m trying to answer: How can a computer scientist do research without using and producing only free and open source software? This question is the corollary that follows from this hypothesis: Free and open source software (FOSS) is the only way to produce and use software that follows the scientific method. There […]
It’s time to help organize the next session of Fedora Students Contributing aka Summer Coding
25-Aug-10We haven’t formally picked a new name for Fedora Summer Coding, but we need to, and ‘Students Contributing’ has the advantages so far. We’re not sticking to summer in one hemisphere and we’re already doing projects that are beyond code. Students Contributing is descriptive of what we’re doing. This post is about the upcoming session […]
Spent the middle part of today in a working session, lead by IDEO facilitators, to tackle a few of the big questions in front of setiQuest and the Seti Institute. The two big questions were generally: How do we enable developers and designers to contribute back to setiQuest in a way that benefits all involved? […]
This week I got a great surprise, my friend Jeff scored me an invite to the setiQuest Summit, held this weekend at SETICON in Santa Clara. The excitement is that, after all these years, the SETI team is open sourcing their code, including the algorithms used to scan telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial life. […]
There’s no denying the simple fact. Our team can’t and won’t have explosive growth. Part of the way to scale ourselves we have always done, which is to engage with other community leaders and leverage each other. Recently I had a new idea that we could fill out our circle on education and open source […]