Recommendations for OpenLogic's Open Source Census
Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic's Open Source Census project – while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn't feel that they were being very forthright about the matter.)
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic's community manager caught up with me to [...]
Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees
I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:
The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses
The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses
The Software Freedom Law [...]
OpenMind 2007: The Novell Keynote
Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit, takes the stage to give an overview of Novell's Open Source strategy and role in the market, along with how partnering is a key part of Free Software and Open Source business
If one would expect all BigCo software execs to be clued in [...]
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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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Free as in Independent: Norway's Progressive Stance on Free Software and Open Source
In a few hours Heidi Grande Røys, the surprising Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform, will be in the city of Drammen to launch the first of what will be several national centres of expertise for Free Software and Open Source.
This first centre is meant to provide public bodies - especially Norwegian municipalities - [...]
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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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SCALE 5x: The SoCal Linux Expo 2007
Ilan Rabinovitch let me know that the SCALE team is getting started on version 5x of the SoCal Linux Expo.
In past years, SCALE has been a great community event - the ratio of promoters to real Linux enthusiasts is low and the attendees are friendly. Also, like most other Linux conferences, attendees have a strong [...]
Staying focused (even with lots of interruptions)
A few months ago, while at the eZ systems summer conference, I was showing my focus deck to my friends Tony Wood and James Eichhorn. I promised to blog about it, but have taken a very long time to get to it. So, here's the deal: I have a simple and effective trick for keeping [...]
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Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]
Discuss *and* participate
Matt Asay posted some of his thoughts on the second draft of version three of the GPL.
It is good that Matt is providing rapid feedback on the new draft, after all the GPL v3 drafting process relies on community participation.
It is less good that Matt doesn't direct people to the FSF GPL v3 site or [...]