I just returned from Germany where I spoke on The Open Source Census at the Open Source Meets Business conference. At the same conference, HP announced the FOSSBazaar initiative, which OpenLogic is sponsoring along with Olliance Group, Novell, Google, Coverity, DLA Piper, SourceForge and The Linux Foundation. The press release and presentation on FOSSBazaar has generated [...]
Read More »Lots of big news in the open source world. (No worries – not another acquisition!) FOSSBazaar launched today – with OpenLogic as one of its founding partners. Last week HP also announced that they released FOSSology as open source. This is on the heels of OpenLogic's announcement of the Open Source Census and the open [...]
Read More »I'm packing my bag for Australia. I thought I'd let you all know where I'm at, so if you are also there, we can get together. Over the next two weeks, I'll be giving the following talks: LinuxChix – January 28th, Melbourne, Australia“What does a community manager do?”http://conf.au.linuxchix.org/schedule/communitymanager-stormypeters/ LinuxConf Australia – January 30th, Melbourne, AustraliaKeynote: [...]
Read More »A while back we added governance capabilities to OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX.) This is really cool because it means that not only can you get your open source software through OLEX but you can set your policies and run your approval process through OLEX. So a company can sign up for OLEX: set some policies (say [...]
Read More »Dawn Foster recently started a series of podcasts all around community management. If you don't already subscribe to her blogs and podcasts, you should check it out. You can listen to the latest one with me! (I think it turned out pretty good but to be honest I always have a really hard time listening [...]
Read More »Continuing my study of whether or not external rewards kill intrinsic motivations, I read a paper Norms, Rewards and Their effect on the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers that Luis pointed me at and Matt Asay blogged about. (For the record, the paper is as long as its title implies it might be.) The [...]
Read More »If, like me, you've wondered why with all our email and conference calls, we spend so much time on airplanes, then you should read How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle from Wired. I don't think he completely answered it but he makes two good points: 1. Technology enables us [...]
Read More »As many of you know, I'm really interested in the question of "Would you do it again for free?" If you take developers that are working on open source software for free and you pay them, if you stop paying them, will they still work on open source software? This was the topic of my [...]
Read More »I've been thinking about Data is a commodity: Data isn't the valuable. In fact, data's a commodity. We're drowning in data. Think about it this way: the lower the cost of interaction, by definition, the more abundant data is – because every interaction creates reams of data. More data is created tomorrow than was created [...]
Read More »When you look at the acquisition of MySQL by Sun, many pundits and bloggers point to the acquisition as a way for Sun to fill the database slot in their offering. (PaulaRooney at ZDNet, Forbes) But I think that leaves out a couple of key underlying market drivers — consolidation and competition — that may help [...]
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