Steal This PHP Vikinger Announcement
The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in Skien, Norway from June 24th to 25th. Like the famous Foo Camp and Bar Camp, PHP Vikinger is driven by its attendees. The people who come choose and present the sessions at the event.
Attendance is by a mix of invitation and registration. [...]
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PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed
I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years.
Nepotistic? "Nay", say I, "Nepotastic!" I know that the people I [...]
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Oracle: We are the Borg?
Local venture cap/tech blogger Paul Kedrosky recent posted that:
Larry Ellison has allegedly cooked up a plan to do a wide-ranging roll-up of companies in the open-source space. Not just JBoss, but a host of others, from Spikesource to Zend, and more inbetween. About the only sizable o/s company left standing would be Red Hat.
This may [...]
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The Rising Spectre of Software Patents in Europe
The EC has started another round of consultations that appear to be
aimed at renewing the effort to establish software patents in Europe.
Opposition from a ragtag coalition of Open Source companies, professional lobbyists, Free Culture, Free Information and Free Software groups helped sink the software patent directive in 2005, but it seems that the software patent [...]
PHP Vikinger
eZ publish lives and dies by PHP. When all is right in the PHP world, it makes our lives a lot easier at eZ systems.
Given that PHP doesn't cost a thing and we only employee a few PHP hackers, we wanted to show our gratitude to the PHP community for its awesome work over the [...]
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Sharing information
One of the first discussions that some of the eZ team had with Sandro, when he started his post as our CKO, was how we could deal with the challenge of effectively sharing our information as we continue to grow.
There are many possible solutions for this problem. A lot of them involve long proposals, UML [...]
Refactoring a few roles at eZ systems
There is some interesting organizational refactoring happening at eZ these days.
First, my friend Sandro Groganz (nee Zic), is moving to a new role within eZ as our Chief Knowledge Officer. Now, I know that this sounds like an oxymoron, but trust me, it is a good thing. Think of Sandro's role as being that of [...]