Tag Archives: community
Planning an International Community Portal for OpenStack
With the large growth of OpenStack internationally comes the need to have a better system to list the international resources for new users of OpenStack. At the moment we have a couple of wiki pages, a mailing list for a … Continue reading
Proud member of an effective community
In days like this I feel very lucky to be a member of the OpenStack community. The thread that started today demonstrates the great culture of collaboration among the people that make OpenStack. Following up on the discussion held at … Continue reading
OpenStack at UDS
What a week! Ubuntu Developer Summit is one of the best meetings I have attended to. Here are a few things that impressed me most. The infrastructure is amazing! The networking is astonishingly good. I learned that the Ubuntu team … Continue reading
Shuttleworth sees Ubuntu as the universal OS
In his keynote this morning, Mark Shuttleworth sketched a future where by 2014 Ubuntu will be an universal platform on all devices with a screen. He mentioned Ubuntu-powered phones, TVs, tablets, cars, with the existing desktops and servers, all connected … Continue reading
Measuring code contributions to Openstack
Following the rule “you cannot improve what you cannot measure” I started putting together a system to measure engagement in OpenStack community. There are lots of factors to take into account for engagement of members of a community. With OpenStack … Continue reading
Suggestions to new Free Software Hackers
Lennart Poettering, is the Red Hat developer of PulseAudio and systemd (among other things). He published the slides for his lecture at Technical University of Berlin where he spoke to students about “things you need to know, things you should … Continue reading
Oracle ‘donates’ OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
Oracle has done what Sun should have done a long time ago: put OO.org code into the hand of an independent foundation. The good news is that now a wider participation from corporations and individuals is possible. Hell, even Microsoft … Continue reading
SCO lost, Groklaw evolves
Tip of the hat to Pamela Jones and a big thank you for all the good information she collected. After 8 years writing and maintaining the vast legal community of Groklaw she decided to stop publishing new articles. Groklaw started … Continue reading
Why I think we won the battle against software patents
After many years talking about the damages to innovation created by patents on software, I believe that the we can consider the battle won: the free software/open source movement should focus its attention on other battles. While I agree with … Continue reading
My slogan won me a ticket to Linuxcon
Last week I replied to Linux Foundation’s tweet/dent asking to complete the sentence “Linux is ___”. Today I was told that my slogan “Linux is mine and yours and theirs” has won me a ticket to next Linuxcon North America … Continue reading
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