As VP of Engineering, I frequently need to translate between engineers and management and one of the areas that come up frequently is our use of SCRUM (agile development). We happen to be lucky enough to have a CEO with a technical past and one that understands development methodologies. Of course this is good and [...]
Read More »Since we launched the OpenLogic Expert Community that pays open source software developers to fix customer issues (something they do for free), I'm very interested in other programs that pay people for doing things they would normally do for free. Here's a program that I think missed the point. Netscape is offering to pay Digg [...]
Read More »Brad's idea here is really interesting: My Virtual Library My first thought was what a great thing to do; then I wondered if the recipients would think you were trying to send them a message. I think that could be handled with a short note and it is a really wonderful way to let people [...]
Read More »The excerpt below came from an introduction to a talk that Thomas L. Friedman gave at MIT. His books in general are incredible and this one specifically is a must read for everyone in or entering the work place today. In a concise and very readable way he explains much about the modern world-wide work [...]
Read More »And here's the states I've been to from Visited States. I'd like to point out that I visited most of these in a car first. Quite a few of them in a VW bug with my entire family! create your own visited states map
Read More »You can use this website to quickly make a map of the countries you have visited. Thanks to Danese for the pointer! (She's visited a few more countries than me!) Here's mine: create your own visited countries map
Read More »So I blogged about my favorite open source conference, OSCON, and about being pregnant, and I got a flood of email from people, several from my favorite open source community, GNOME. I get asked a lot how I got involved in open source and why I'm such a big fan. While the why I'm such [...]
Read More »An interesting bit of trivia for you. The half life of an online news story is 36 hours. So half of all the people that are ever going to read it, read it in the first 36 hours. Goes to show you that you really need to keep your websites and blogs up-to-date! Are you [...]
Read More »We recently attempted to release a new product and when we got near the end we found that many of the stories were not really complete. The developer had called them complete, but there were bits and pieces hanging around that were really required if we were to release the product to customers. This begs [...]
Read More »Although I won't be at OSCON, we (OpenLogic) will still be there and we will be talking about the Expert Community. Rod Cope, our CTO and founder, will be giving my talk, Enterprises and Communities: A Match Made in …?, where he'll be talking about our experiences of bringing enterprises and the open source community [...]
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