Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla.
I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program.
Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls:
This is Zak Greant's weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 19th to 25th, 2009.
Wading through heaps of Mozilla email and feeds last week paid off this week. Instead of worrying about what I hadn't read or wondering where I was duplicating other's work, I was able to focus on program development with most of my effort going into developing the Mozilla Social Movement Program Concept, working on the Mozilla Manifesto Stories experiment and catching up with my peers. At 54 hours, the week was a bit long but I was glad to be able to focus. …
[Read more]Gerv, Frank, Mark and I have been discussing ideas around how people can turn open source experience into an asset for their resume. We’ve got some of our own ideas, but we want yours as well. Please blog, comment, email or ‘dent any one of us, or catch up with Gerv and Mark at FOSDEM.
My top three tips for making the best of your open source participation are:
EMC buys some, but not all, of SourceLabs. Cfengine launches data center automation software. Open source and TCO. Measuring corporate contributions to open source. And more.
Official announcements
Self-repairing Data Center Automation solution
released Cfengine
Acquia Joins Red Hat Exchange Bringing Social Publishing Expertise to the Open Source Ecosystem Acquia
DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex DotNetNuke
The BitRock Network Service Improves Product …
[Read more]I want you to tell me the story of how you got started with the Net.
Tell me how your passion was sparked and why it keeps coming to full flame.
Tell me why the Net matters to you, even after all of the long days, short nights and wrecked weekends.
I’ve been writing my story because I need to understand why I care deeply for what the Net is and what it means.
I want to read your story for the same reason.
Don’t hold out on me now. I can see your data trails in my server logs: a few hundred of you trudging in from RSS subscriptions, the PHP, Mozilla and MySQL planets, Boris’ …
[Read more]This is the 1st post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series. | Post 2 »
Christmas is nearly upon the Christian and Consumerist parts of the globe. Along much of my latitude, snow is piling up in record quantities and weather warnings abound. Even in oft-green Vancouver, there is a foot or so of the white stuff accumulated in my yard and the parking lot outside my window often echos with the sounds of snow-beached cars helplessly spinning their wheels.
Usually all these things taken together would mean a series of harrowing drives to visit family, followed by lovely hours staying warm indoors, eating comfort food, retelling old stories and enjoying the company of loved ones as the year draws to its close.
However, this year our family time is coming after the holidays and I'm left with the unexpected gift of a week or so of free time.
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[Read more]To save Solaris from a certain death ?
Reading Planet MySQL the last couple of hours I'm trying really
hard to convince myselve the Solaris offensive there is not
orchestrated.. but I can't.
It might ofcourse be the fresh MySQL users that Sun brought in on
their platform that started out blogging but hey .. I`m paranoia
right :)
Are they really trying to get at least a fraction of the MySQL community on Solaris. Do they really think they can ? Yes they lost a zillion of Solaris customers that were running a proprietary database to MySQL on Linux users ,, but why would they want to move back to a semi proprietary setup ?
According to Linuxjournal Alan Cox seems to think that ZFS is the only thing that is keeping Solaris alive. I don't think DTrace was a bigg mass tool that would convince the crowds to suddenly move to an other operating system.
So is Sun trying to Lock In a community ? …
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I met GNU for the first time fifteen years ago. I was working as
a consultant in support of a criminal investigation, and as part
of my duties I had to analyze a database hosted on a SCO
server.
As often happens, the database was proprietary, and it did not
include any facility to analyze data. I needed to build an
application to explore the data thoroughly.
Most of my working libraries were written in C, which I used in
other operating systems. So I contacted SCO and asked to buy a C
compiler. I was told that it would cost me quite a lot (I was
prepared for that, although not for the price they told me, but
since I was going to expense it, I would not care), and that it
would take one month to get the software. I did not have
one month at my disposal. I needed to nail down the evidence for
the investigation immediately. So I started asking around. I was
doing some side work for …
As part of a project of Technocation, Inc I took a whole bunch of videos at OSCon 2008. The conference was about a month ago, and about 2 weeks ago I’d finished processing and uploading all the videos, but it was only today where I had the 5-6 hours I needed to finish posting all the video, and making this matrix of video.
The video may not be the quality that the O’Reilly folks took and put up on blip tv’s OSCon site, but all the videos here are freely downloadable or playable in your browser.
I’ve been following the Drizzle project with some interest. There’s a lot to like about it. But you know what I like most about the project?
No dual licensing. Just plain GPL, version 2.
I personally think this is the foundation for why people are empowered, why there is excitement, why there is progress, [...]