Pin ItJean Anderson, the second speaker of the day at the Women in Open Source Mini-Conference, is a PMC member of the Apache Derby project. During her talk she explained how the Apache Foundation works, the barriers to getting started on an Apache project and how mailing lists work and why that intimidates people. Here [...]
Read More »Pin ItI attended the Women in Open Source Mini-Conference at SCALE on Friday. There were some very interesting speakers and it was a great opportunity to meet some women in open source – some who I knew online and some who I met for the first time in person. I told myself I was going [...]
Read More »Pin ItBernard Golden recently posted on Why CIOs Don't Care About Open Source. He gives good reasons for why he believes this is true, but I think there's another, possibly more salient reason to consider. CIOs think about "source", not the differences between closed and open. In other words, they want to get the same [...]
Read More »Pin ItAs I drove home from work last night in a snow storm that turned my 45-minute commute into a 2-hour-plus crawl, I had time for my mind to wander. Still, the weather certainly wasn't far from my mind. It might seem that, with near-zero temperatures and icy roads, the topic of global warming wouldn't [...]
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