PHP Québec Conférence 2008
The good folks at PHP Québec are throwing another iteration of their annual PHP conference. It will be held from March 12-14 in the beautiful city of Montréal. As I've mentioned before, this is always a great conference.
Check the conference website out - you still have a few days before the call for participation ends [...]
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Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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php|works 2006: General Followup
php/db|works ended yesterday in the early afternoon after the most merciful (read brief) closing keynote I have attended (Thanks Marco!) Congratulations to Marco, Sean, Arbi and crew for running a nice community-centric event! It was small, but it was also easy to have nice conversations with many of the attendees and the atmosphere was [...]
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Audio for Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session
The organizers of the PHP Québec Conference were gracious enough to give me an unedited copy of my Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session.
I cleaned the audio up last night, stripping out some of the more odious filler words (I seem to say "Umm" rather often), shortening pauses as I switched slides, removing [...]
Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006
Slides from my presentations at the PHP Québec Conference are below:
Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers (PDF, 650KiB)
SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5 (PDF, 55KiB)
I will make the audio of the licensing session, along with a transcript, available as soon as possible.
Update:
Audio now available.
Tags: conference, Copyright, DBMS, License, Licensing, PHP, Quebec, [...]
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About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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Oracle buys Sleepycat
April 1st is still more than a month away and at least one rumour about Oracle's upcoming purchases is true: today the software giant annnounced their acquisition of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB (and various other products).
One interesting point is that Berkeley DB was already seeing competition from SQLite (which is an excellent, [...]
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This is a stick up! Hand over your copyright!
Copyright assignment (the practice of asking contributors to a project to assign their copyright to the project owner) always makes me a bit uncomfortable.
From a business perspective, holding all of the copyright for your products provides important advantages (usually ones that relates to making money or managing risk).
From a normal human perspective, it sucks to [...]
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Machine-readable licensing blocks
One of our recent activities at eZ has been to rework our licensing. While most of the changes have been related to improving the agreements involved (simplifying, internationalizing, improving the legal robustness, etc.) we plan to make some changes to how we attach licensing information to our source code.
The basic plan is to drop in [...]
Preparing for upcoming sessions on Free and Open Software licensing
Over the next few months, I need to prepare for a series of sessions on contracts, copyright and licensing - especially as they pertain to Free Software and Open Source.
To do this, I plan on writing a series of concise articles that answer common questions in this topic area.
I have a draft list of questions, [...]
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