Open Source Delivers

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  In this video, Mike provides a great overview of: Changes Eclipse is making, including broadening their technical focus beyond tooling and Java into JavaScript, C, C++, and PHP, and a new focus [...]

Open source governance is a concept that is sometimes misunderstood or forgotten in new open source projects. Good open source governance can help maintain the long-term health of any open source community, and includes the process of writing down how decisions are made, rules of engagement for projects and how the rules can be changed [...]

Compared to many engineering disciplines, software development – which began in earnest in the mid-20th Century – is still in its youth.   The science and art of software development have progressed in two broad threads: the tools themselves (IDEs, compilers, languages, frameworks, build/CI systems, etc.) and the development methodologies employed – which together determine the [...]

With all eyes focused on the Olympics and the amazing feats from athletes the world over, we thought it might be nice to turn the Open Source Delivers spotlight to openness on a global scale, and all the great things countries are doing to benefit communities around the world.  Check out this video from Open [...]

With all the open source stories from the week, HP and Google seemed to be the ones that got the most attention. HP open sourced the code for the Android kernel that was accidentally shipped with a number of its TouchPad tablets last year. In other Android news, Google previewed the integrations of its new [...]

As I look around the FOSS ecosystem I’m beginning to see a trend towards something I call “super communities,” or “communities of communities” – essentially, these super communities are vertical industry-driven open source communities. The core driver for these groups is the recognition by certain industries that a substantial portion of the software they develop [...]

Success and motivation at work and school can sometimes be difficult to come by. But according to the author of Drive, Daniel H. Pink, the tools required to achieve high performance and success are autonomy, mastery and purpose. (Great book, listened to it on the plane.) Pink applies these principles primarily to work life– but [...]