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 […]
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In January 2010 I participated in an Ignite session at the Community Leadership Summit West. CLS West is a subset of the annual CLS, to be held this year again near OSCON in Portland, OR on 17 and 18 July 2010. This talk is in O’Reilly’s Ignite format, which is 20 slides that auto-advance every […]
Understanding opensource.com
28-Jan-10This 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 […]
Wow, I just saw the saddest thing. It’s a section of the Wikipedia article about Red Hat, listing programs and projects that Red Hat does in the free software and open source communities. This is ‘programs and projects’ in the sense of, “Build a road is a project, build a freeway system is a program.” […]
Some old faces, some new faces talking about how the same-old, same-old building sustainable community in Fedora leads to new innovation and new fun stuff for people to play with in this video on Fedora 12. Another new thing here, I think this is the first time our entire Community Architecture team was in one […]
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 […]
Time for a five year report. I did some research, analysis, and reporting recently about the Fedora Project and (later) JBoss.org participation in Google’s Summer of Code project. I’ve done various parts in our GSoC effort since 2006, the second year we participated, and the last two summers I’ve been focusing on strategic work for […]
Five reasons I love working at Red Hat
01-Nov-09I picked five because then I wouldn’t be at this all day, but it’s clearly a lot more than that. And I’m sure I know people have “reasons they hate”, and they are welcome to go somewhere they love more than they hate, I’m sure, yes. These are the sort of things I find myself […]
This was the central question I reckon I carried away after talking with folks from Nexenta. They have an open source core, Nexenta.org, that uses an OpenSolaris kernel with ZFS and a rebuilt Debian non-GUI userspace. The combination provides network attached storage (NAS) with lots of potential as an open solution. What resonated most with […]
Interesting open systems problem
10-Jun-09(This article arose from my sitting on an open source round table on Monday 08 June in Santa Clara, CA at ConnectivityWeek 2009. My slides with full speaker notes are available.) For those who’ve never heard of building automation systems (BAS) and the smart grid, you have my pardon to take a few minutes to […]