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BlogsTags > communitySurvey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the PastBy Andy OramMay 15, 2013 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 CEO, and Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of … We need incognito book purchasingBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 18, 2013 In the physical realm, purchasing a book without revealing one’s identity involves little effort beyond proceeding to a store one does not usually patronise and paying in cash. Unless one is seeking illegal volumes, which are unlikely to be obtained … Velocity Report: Building a DevOps cultureBy Mandi WallsApril 16, 2013 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 got a good idea of what … Designing resilient communitiesBy Andy OramApril 15, 2013 In the open source and free software movement, we always exalt community, and say the people coding and supporting the software are more valuable than the software itself. Few communities have planned and philosophized as much about community-building as ZeroMQ. … Digital publishing and the loss of intimacyBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 9, 2013 Reading used to be an intimate experience. Even Amazon, the pioneer in digital publishing, branded its Kindle with a child reading alone under a tree. Books were specially designed to disappear into the background as much as possible, helped by … How crowdfunding and the JOBS Act will shape open source companiesBy Fred TrotterMarch 28, 2013 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 than products on crowdfund platforms) illegal. The only way to sell stocks to the public at large … The book as a standard of qualityBy François Joseph de KermadecMarch 13, 2013 Publishers have long commandeered respect for the quality of their work. Traditional processes may be cumbersome, reliant as they are on an infinity of minute, specialised steps, but they have helped maintain consistently high standards, at ever-lower prices. Authors may … Learning from a video game publisher’s demiseBy Paul RhodesFebruary 22, 2013 So, it’s done. After years of speculation, THQ went under the Chapter 11 auction hammer, most of it going to rival publishers, with the majority of the remaining employees losing their jobs. (THQ’s letter to its employees, along with who … Author platforms and the Black Box EffectBy Anne HillFebruary 20, 2013 If you’ve spent as much time reading author blogs as I have, you may have noticed a disturbing pattern. In nearly every “here’s how I did it” post in which the author explains her route to greater visibility and sales, … Five key takeaways from TOC NY 2013By Joe WikertFebruary 18, 2013 TOC NY 2013 is a wrap and based on the feedback I’ve received so far I think it was one of our best. When Kat and I closed the event Thursday afternoon we both shared thoughts on the most important … The 7 key features of an online communityBy Travis AlberDecember 18, 2012 Here’s something about the user experience of online communities that you’ve probably never considered: everyone in an online community is having a unique, individualized experience, even though they’re all doing it together. Think about that for a second. Your activity … Open source developers combine efforts in the health care fieldBy Andy OramDecember 13, 2012 I had a chance to listen in a recent meeting of Open Health Tools, a trade association bringing together companies, academics, and standards bodies who create open source software tools for all stages of the health care field. Open Health … Open source software as a model for health careBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 (The following article sprang from a collaboration between Andy Oram and Brigitte Piniewski to cover open source concepts in an upcoming book on health care. This book, titled “Wireless Health: Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies,” is edited by Professor … Open source wonBy Roger MagoulasJuly 30, 2012 I heard the comments a few times at the 14th OSCON: The conference has lost its edge. The comments resonated with my own experience — a shift in demeanor, a more purposeful, optimistic attitude, less itching for a fight. Yes, … Inside GitHub’s role in community-building and other open source advances 
By Andy OramJuly 26, 2012 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 GitHub builds on Git’s strengths to allow more people to … Top Stories: July 9-13, 2012 
By Mac SlocumJuly 13, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Jim Stogdill said data is getting heavier relative to the networks that carry it around the data center; Simon Phipps revealed open source community strategies relevant to the enterprise; and Team Geek authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman discussed the importance of developer collaboration. Open source community collaboration strategies for the enterpriseBy Simon PhippsJuly 13, 2012 This report examines the strategies and caveats businesses must consider before adopting open source software, including: the layers and needs of open source communities, the relationship between transparency and privacy, the problems with "open core," and why control should be traded for influence. Learning from PixarBy Matt RobertsJuly 10, 2012 Matt Roberts finds useful parallels between fiction writing and software development amid the tweets of a Pixar staff writer. Promoting and documenting a small software project: VoIP Drupal updateBy Andy OramApril 6, 2012 Part of a series about efforts by VoIP Drupal collaborators to find the right media and tools with which to promote a small, little known software project. Promoting and documenting a small software project: VoIP Drupal update
By Andy OramApril 6, 2012 Part of a series about efforts by VoIP Drupal collaborators to find the right media and tools with which to promote a small, little known software project. The core of the author platform is unchanged — it's the tools that are rapidly changingBy Jenn WebbMarch 6, 2012 "Cooking for Geeks" author Jeff Potter offers lessons learned while writing, marketing and selling his book. "The book is no longer the product," Potter says. "The product is now the conversations and community that grow around the book." The core of the author platform is unchanged — it's the tools that are rapidly changing March 6, 2012 "Cooking for Geeks" author Jeff Potter offers lessons learned while writing, marketing and selling his book. "The book is no longer the product," Potter says. "The product is now the conversations and community that grow around the book." Permission to be horrible and other ways to generate creativityBy Suzanne AxtellMarch 1, 2012 Author and web design consultant Denise R. Jacobs reveals lessons she learned about creativity while writing her first book. She also discusses her efforts to give women and people of color more visibility in the tech world. Documentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductionsBy Andy OramFebruary 17, 2012 VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials. Documentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductions
By Andy OramFebruary 17, 2012 VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials. Four short links: 3 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 3, 2012 Page Speed (Google Code) -- an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools. What Commons Do We Wish For? (John Battelle) -- trying to... Four short links: 31 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 31, 2012 The Sky is Rising -- TechDirt's Mike Masnick has written (and made available for free download) an excellent report on the entertainment industry's numbers and business models. Must read if you have an opinion on SOPA et al. Tennis Australia Exposes Match Analytics -- Served from IBM's US-based private cloud, the updated SlamTracker web application pulls together 39 million... Radar is now on Google+ (officially this time)
By Mac SlocumNovember 8, 2011 We've got big ideas for Radar's new Google+ page. For starters, we see it as a two-way channel, an experimentation hub, and a place to surface intriguing content. Radar is now on Google+ (officially this time)By Mac SlocumNovember 8, 2011 We've got big ideas for Radar's new Google+ page. For starters, we see it as a two-way channel, an experimentation hub, and a place to surface intriguing content. Radar is now on Google+ (officially this time)
By Mac SlocumNovember 8, 2011 We've got big ideas for Radar's new Google+ page. For starters, we see it as a two-way channel, an experimentation hub, and a place to surface intriguing content. Wrap-up from FLOSS Manuals book sprint at GoogleBy Andy OramOctober 21, 2011 Mixtures of grassroots content generation and unique expertise have existed, and more models will be found. Understanding the points of commonality between the systems will help us develop such models. Wrap-up from FLOSS Manuals book sprint at Google
By Andy OramOctober 21, 2011 Mixtures of grassroots content generation and unique expertise have existed, and more models will be found. Understanding the points of commonality between the systems will help us develop such models. FLOSS Manuals books published after three-day sprintBy Andy OramOctober 21, 2011 Joining the pilgrimage that all institutions are making toward wider data use, FLOSS Manuals is exposing more and more of the writing process. FLOSS Manuals books published after three-day sprint
By Andy OramOctober 21, 2011 Joining the pilgrimage that all institutions are making toward wider data use, FLOSS Manuals is exposing more and more of the writing process. Day two of FLOSS Manuals book sprint at Google Summer of Code summitBy Andy OramOctober 20, 2011 As a relatively conventional book, the KDE manual was probably a little easier to write (but also probably less fun) than the more high-level approaches taken by some other teams that were trying to demonstrate to potential customers that their projects were worth adopting. Day two of FLOSS Manuals book sprint at Google Summer of Code summit
By Andy OramOctober 20, 2011 As a relatively conventional book, the KDE manual was probably a little easier to write (but also probably less fun) than the more high-level approaches taken by some other teams that were trying to demonstrate to potential customers that their projects were worth adopting. Day one of FLOSS Manuals book sprint at Google Summer of Code summitBy Andy OramOctober 19, 2011 Four teams at Google launched into endeavors that will lead, less than 72 hours from now, to complete books on four open source projects. Day one of FLOSS Manuals book sprint at Google Summer of Code summit
By Andy OramOctober 19, 2011 Four teams at Google launched into endeavors that will lead, less than 72 hours from now, to complete books on four open source projects. FLOSS Manuals sprint starts at Google Summer of Code summitBy Andy OramOctober 18, 2011 Four free software projects have each sent three to five volunteers to write books about the projects this week. Along the way we'll all learn about the group writing process and the particular use of book sprints to make documentation for free software. FLOSS Manuals sprint starts at Google Summer of Code summit
By Andy OramOctober 18, 2011 Four free software projects have each sent three to five volunteers to write books about the projects this week. Along the way we'll all learn about the group writing process and the particular use of book sprints to make documentation for free software. Top Stories: September 19-23, 2011
By Mac SlocumSeptember 23, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: Alistair Croll explained why true data is more important than big data, we looked at how BuzzData is building community around datasets, and Liza Daly explained the connection between digital content and choreography. The future of communityBy Robert KayeJuly 28, 2011 We're at the beginning of a community renaissance, says Jono Bacon, and we're soon going to see a repeatable body of knowledge that will allow us to push communities forward. OSCON subcultures
By Andy OramJuly 25, 2011 Fun observations about the Open Source convention, and a few comments on the Community Leadership Summit Visualization of the Week: Mobile data redraws the mapBy Audrey WattersJuly 22, 2011 Researchers are looking at mobile phone data to see if our relationships and communications are restricted by geographic boundaries. Visualization of the Week: Mobile data redraws the map July 22, 2011 Researchers are looking at mobile phone data to see if our relationships and communications are restricted by geographic boundaries. Top stories: July 11-15, 2011
By Mac SlocumJuly 15, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: We took a deep dive into HTML5, Mike Loukides looked for Java's next community leader, and we learned that quantifying the self is a step toward programming the self. The Java parade: What about IBM and Apache? July 15, 2011 Why did Mike Loukides leave IBM and Apache out of his recent piece, "Who leads the Java Parade?" Because — despite good reasons — they both opted out. Who leads the Java parade? July 13, 2011 Are any of the companies in the Java community willing to exercise technical leadership? Are there organizations willing to bring the features Java needs to fruition? It's time for the real leader to stand up and address these questions. From app to meetup: A new kind of running routeBy Jenn WebbJune 28, 2011 The line between online and offline is further blurring thanks to apps. Case in point: RunKeeper is now bringing users together for in-person group runs. From app to meetup: A new kind of running route June 28, 2011 The line between online and offline is further blurring thanks to apps. Case in point: RunKeeper is now bringing users together for in-person group runs. 1 to 50 of 114 Next Stay Connected
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