Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers

Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]

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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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2007 MySQL Users Conference

I wonder how many people will attend a session at a tech conference where the start of the description reads as follows:
Hey You! Yes, You! Manager, marketeer, sales professional: are you tired of 98lb weaklings kicking silicon in your face?
I am thinking this way because my friends at MySQL AB are putting on another MySQL [...]

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Retroactive doppelganging

Another Zak twin!

Originally uploaded by tychay.

Zend has made a set of PHP trading cards. The first set uses my photo for both my card and George's card. I have had to deal with doppelgangers before, but this is ridiculous. :)

Tags: Flickr, OSCON, PHP, Uncategorized, Zend

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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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eZ systems coming to (North) America

When I started at eZ systems, one of my early conversations with the headquarters team was about how to serve the markets in North American. I advised that we follow the well-beaten path to Silicon Valley; send over a few solid team members from our HQ in Skien, integrate them into a strong team [...]

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