Sam Dean posted a good list of places to find open source software related webinars, free webinars on free software. One of the resources is OpenLogic's archive of webinars. OpenLogic's webinars cover topics that are interesting to open source software users in the enterprise. Some of them we do ourselves but other times we bring [...]
Read More »InfoWorld put out their 2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards (BOSSIES) and SourceForge put out their Community Choice Awards. I thought it would be interesting to see how prevalant these products were in the Open Source Census findings. Not all the projects had fingerprints in Open Source Census so I just focused on those [...]
Read More »Question: Is it theft if the other person still has it? Answer: It can be. However, in the evolution of the human species, this is a relatively new concept. You can steal software, songs, and wifi connections – but yet the other person still has their copy. I think this is why so many people [...]
Read More »The Software Freedom Law Center has published a very detailed guide on how to comply with the GPL, A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance. It discusses everything from common violations to how to include source code to what to do if you get the dreaded "you are in trouble" letter. Worth a read for any [...]
Read More »One of the most debated things about hiring a community manager is which department the community manager should work in. Common consensus among community managers seems to be the engineering department even though most of them report into marketing. Bernard Golden suggests that they should be in the support department: Do not make the mistake [...]
Read More »Jonathan Corbet has written an excellent guide for how to participate in the Linux kernel community. (And I heard Amanda McPherson was in on the planning.) I recommend it to anyone who is wondering how to get started contributing code to an open source software project but especially to those coming from a corporate coding [...]
Read More »Thursday was the first time an open source license was upheld as a valid license in US courts. People are excited! In Jacobsen v Katzer the courts ruled that the artistic license is a valid license that can be upheld under copyright law. (Note that the district courts had earlier said that the artistic license [...]
Read More »The relationship between communities and the companies that are involved in them is always a tricky thing to navigate well. So I was interested to see that Maemo is holding an election for a Community Council that will "represent the community’s interests to Nokia, and to co-ordinate community initiatives". It's the first time I've heard [...]
Read More »Anyone looking to relieve the pain of no non-Windows support from their hardware VPN vendor or that has issues wading through the IPSec options to get vpn working from their Linux or Mac machines should take a look at OpenVPN. This firewall project is based on the SSL standard that has been battle tested by [...]
Read More »Synopsis: The Arduino is a good example of how open source thinking can spur innovation and variation in hardware, firmware, and application design (open source autopilots, for example.) I haven’t seen a catalog of Arduino hardware evolution anywhere on the net, so I thought I’d take a crack at one to show you how one [...]
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