“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Recently MuleSource partnered with Canonical to improve Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. The Tomcat’s expert Jason Britain, newly hired at MuleSource, made clear what are MuleSource’s contributions to Tomcat and I asked to Matt Asay more about what Canonical brings to this partnership, and to Jono Bacon more about Ubuntu’s community.
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“The Art of Community” is a book written by Jono Bacon , founder of the Community Leadership summit and brave Ubuntu community manager, to let people know the difference between creating a technological platform and managing a living community-driven ethos.
The book, a must read for everyone interested in understanding communities, has been released also under a Creative Commons license, and is backed also by an online community. The list of praises for the book is impressive, and includes (among others): Matt Asay, Ian Murdock, Mark Hinkle and Danese Cooper.
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Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, today officially released an open source video extension for Moodle, while only few days ago announced the release of an open source video extension for Joomla!. The growing number of plug-ins and extensions available caught my attention, and triggered in my mind the idea to ask Zohar Babin, Community Manager at Kaltura, how they prioritize among Drupal, Mediawiki, WordPress and others.
Continue reading ‘About Kaltura’s Plans for Open Source World Domination’
Few days ago Subversion has been submitted to the Apache Incubator, a move praised by many as the natural fit for both projects, both for technical reasons (Apache projects use Subversion, Subversion relies on many Apache projects) and a shared vision about IP (same license) and community governance (same voting process).
Bill Portelli, Collabnet CEO, and Justin Erenkrantz, Apache Software Foundation President, answered few questions aimed at better understanding if and at which extent this is a win-win move. Let’s start from the corporate side.
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The mission of the CodePlex Foundation - enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities - could be a roaring success. But in order to create an open, neutral and business friendly environment first some work has to be done.
| Sep ’09 | Sep |
| 28 | 29 |
This year conference accepted contributions regarding also the Jazz platform and will feature also an industrial track.
I will be giving a speech on the 28th after Ralph Mueller’s keynote, see you there!
Last week I held the “Building an Effective Commercial Open Source Strategy” workshop at OSiM, the definitive industry event on Open Source in Mobile.
Stephen Walli and I this year worked out a richer workshop outline, aimed at covering open source software business and community issues, as well as IPR issues.
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Yesterday GroundWork announced the launch of MonitoringForge, probably the first vertical meta-forge of open source projects belonging to a specific software category (IT monitoring).
Talking frequently with David Dennis - Senior Director marketing at GroundWork - I happened to share with him the idea that a neutral open source monitoring à la CMSMatrix was missing. Now that GroundWork decided to start an initiative somehow going towards that direction I asked Tara Spalding, VP Marketing at GroundWork, to comment the news.
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RiverMuse - a company established in 2008 by the original founders of Micromuse and RiverSoft - at the end of July announced the availability of RiverMuse Open Source Fault Management, a fault management platform designed to be extensible via pluggable modules.
Phil Blades - VP Products & Community at RiverMuse - told me more about their open source vision.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Service Management: RiverMuse’s Community Building Process’
SourceForge.net is wanting to make sure performance of the site from various locations on the globe is fast. As Europe is a major source of traffic to the site, they are seeking testers in Italy.
Daniel Hinojosa, SourceForge.net Support Senior Manager, kindly asked me to spread the word, read below his message.
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