#SocialCivics and the architecture of participation
It was big news recently that former Twitter executive Jason Goldman is joining the White House to head up a new office of Digital Strategy. In his post, Jason asked for advice, posted anywhere, using...
View ArticleDevOps keeps it cool with ICE
Over the next five years, three ideas will be central to DevOps: the need for the DevOps community to become more Inclusive; the realization that increasing Complexity of systems is the underlying...
View ArticleMeasure your open source community’s age to keep it healthy
To really grasp a free/open source software project, you need to know how the community that develops and supports it is evolving. Attracting lots of new members will be a reason for celebrating...
View ArticleJeremy Rifkin unveils a return to the local in an interconnected future
Stratasys’ Education, R&D departments and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab are researching 4D printing — manufacturing one-off objects that can change their shapes or other physical characteristics in...
View ArticleFour short links: 14 July 2014
Handheld Scanners Attack — shipping and logistics operations compromised by handheld scanners running malware-infested Windows XP. Adventures in Cognitive Biases (MIT) — web adventure to build your...
View ArticleOpen teaching stacks help us teach at scale
Elliott Hauser is CEO of Trinket, a startup focused on creating open sourced teaching materials. He is also a Python instructor at UNC Chapel Hill. Well-developed tools for teaching are crucial to the...
View ArticleThe book sprint
Do you really want a technical book for your project? Does your community need to provide more helpful docs to support even more users? Does your community have a lot of knowledge they need to get out...
View ArticleCPAN’s social continuity of code
I contribute heavily in the Perl community, and I’m consistently impressed by the pains we take with code and assets that we personally have no interest in. There’s a group of Perl people who shepherd...
View ArticleWho will upgrade the telecom foundation of the Internet?
Although readers of this blog know quite well the role that the Internet can play in our lives, we may forget that its most promising contributions — telemedicine, the smart electrical grid, distance...
View ArticleThe Programming Industry: Not a Woman’s World – Yet
Rupa Dachere (@rdachere), Founder and President of CodeChix, and I had a chance to talk programming and open source community culture at OSCON 2013. She brings up some great points about the specific...
View ArticleWill Developers Move to Sputnik?
Barton George (@barton808) is the Director of Development Programs at Dell, and the lead on Project Sputnik—Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop (and its accompanying software). He sat down with me at...
View ArticleSurvey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the Past
I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, President and...
View ArticleVelocity Report: Building a DevOps Culture
Operations professionals live in a wind tunnel. If you can imagine one of those game show glass boxes, where a contestant stands inside, the door shuts, and money blows around in a whirlwind, you’ve...
View ArticleHow crowdfunding and the JOBS Act will shape open source companies
Currently, anyone can crowdfund products, projects, causes, and sometimes debt. Current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations make crowdfunding companies (i.e. selling stocks rather...
View ArticleInside GitHub’s role in community-building and other open source advances
In this video interview, Matthew McCullough of GitHub discusses what they’ve learned over time as they grow and watch projects develop there. Highlights from the full video interview include: How...
View ArticleTop Stories: July 9-13, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. Heavy data and architectural convergence Imagine a future where large clusters of like machines dynamically adapt between...
View ArticleOpen source community collaboration strategies for the enterprise
OSCON’s theme last year was “from disruption to default.” Over the last decade, we’ve seen open source shift from the shadows to the limelight. Today, more businesses than ever are considering the role...
View ArticlePromoting and documenting a small software project: VoIP Drupal update
Isn’t the integration of mobile phones and the Web one of the hot topics in modern technology? If so, VoIP Drupal should become a fixture of web development and administration. I have been meeting with...
View ArticlePermission to be horrible and other ways to generate creativity
I met Denise R. Jacobs (@denisejacobs) the old fashioned way, not through Twitter or LinkedIn: a mutual acquaintance introduced us. We corresponded via email and actually got together in person a few...
View ArticleDocumentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal...
VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. At O’Reilly, we’ve been conscious for some time that we lack a business model...
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