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Open Source Weekly Wrap Up: April 26, 2013
This week’s open source news kicked off with SkySQL announcing its merger with MariaDB and the first batch of Firefox OS phones selling out within hours of going on sale. Catch up on these stories and find out what other open source stories were circulating this week: Ingrid Lunden reported on the merger between open [...]
Open Source Conversations: Future of Open Source Video Interview
Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the great pleasure of taking part with fellow industry experts from North Bridge, Forrester, Thomson Reuters, Hortonworks and Acquia. Following the webinar, I had a chance [...]
The Iron Triangle of Compliance
Jeff Hammond of Forrester Research talks about the “iron triangle” of software development. “Schedule, features, cost…pick any two,” is the way he describes it. He often brings this up in the context of open source and multi-source development taking the position that open source lets dev teams soften up the iron and improve on all [...]
Open Source Software’s Opportunity to Reform Government
The results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey are in — thanks to everyone who contributed by completing the survey. You can read an overview of the results here, or see the detailed breakdowns in the slides at the end of this post. For me, one of the most interesting nuggets from the [...]
Open Source Weekly Wrap Up: April 19, 2013
The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence on everything from innovation, to collaboration among competitors, to hiring practices, is revolutionizing the way organizations work and do business. Check out the Open Revolutions: [...]
Open Source Application Lifecycle Management
One of the things I’ve learned the hard way is that there’s more to software development than firing up your favorite text editor. As developers, we often interact with systems which are linked with our work – bug trackers, source control systems, build servers etc. More recently the processes which govern these interactions were branded [...]
Open Source Weekly Wrap Up: April 12, 2013
The Linux Foundation’s new OpenDaylight Project made its big debut this week. The collaborative project is being supported by a group of leading industry vendors and will provide an open source framework that organizations can build software-defined networking (SDN) products and services on top of. We’ll start this Weekly Wrap Up with some news highlights [...]
The Internet of Things and Open Source
Inevitable. Inextricable. Imminent. Greeting Netizens. Since you are reading this blog, you obviously belong to the “Internet of Persons,” a growing global population of 2.5 billion of your fellow human beings. But as sentient surfers, you are not alone. Joining you on the internet is a far more vast and increasingly ubiquitous army of connected [...]
Prosocial Behavior, Open Source and the Benefits of Extreme Giving
As I was reading Susan Dominus’s recent New York Times article about Adam Grant, a young PhD at Wharton School, and his research on prosocial behavior in the workplace, it struck me as insightful in explaining a frequently asked question: why do developers contribute to open source projects? Grant’s research on giving can be used [...]
Open Source Weekly Wrap Up: April 5, 2013
This week provided important news for open source in education with Stanford University announcing it will integrate key features from its Class2Go platform into the edX open source learning platform. Another big story came from Google’s decision to transition away from the WebKit project to focus on its new open source rendering engine called Blink. [...]
