This week the Linux Foundation’s Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, published an article challenging CEO’s across various industries to incorporate external, collaborative development into their R&D processes. He asserted that regardless of whether you’re a technology company, you most likely build software, and should be following the lead of established tech companies in utilizing open development methods.
Read this story and other open source news from the week:
- “Attention CEO’s: You Are in the Software Business. Now What?” was Jim Zemlin’s Linux.com article calling on CEO’s to take a cue from the large, successful tech companies and start including external collaboration in their development.
- On Wired, Ruth Suehle gave a great recap of the third Open Hardware Summit: “The Open Hardware Summit: The Future of Manufacturing is Sharing”
- Lawrence Latif covered the latest release from WebOS in the INQUIRER article, “Open WebOS Project Announces Open WebOS 1.0 Release.”
- “Keep Calm and Innersource On,” was posted by Guy Martin on the Red Hat Services Speak blog about the concept of applying open source methods to internal software development; otherwise known as inner-sourcing.
- In Glyn Moody’s ComputerWorldUK blog, “Declaration on Parliamentary Openness,” he shares language from the declaration’s new OpeningParliament.org site.
- Sam Dean reported on the new Rackspace training and certification program in the OStatic blog, “Rackspace Adds Certification to its OpenStack Training Arsenal.”
Have you gotten your open source copy of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia yet?
