Open Source Delivers

I just got back from the Linux Foundation’s second Android Builders Summit (ABS) in Redwood City, California, where most of the approximately 250 attendees were hard-core, experienced embedded Linux developers. This was only the second year for ABS, but this two-day conference was packed with great technical sessions that explored the gamut of possibilities for [...]

FOSDEM is unlike any other conference I attend. This year in Brussels, it was bitter cold and snowing outside.  But when nearly 5,000 dedicated free software developers get together, the resulting intellectual sparks can’t be extinguished even by copious amounts of excellent Belgian beer. Actually, the beer helps a lot! It costs nothing to attend [...]

I’ve just returned from the Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, where a huge crowd – well over 600 attendees, from both the OSS industry and other businesses – gathered to hear the latest in open source (OSS) enabled mobile, cloud and social strategies. The largest OSS-related conference I’ve been to so far, sponsored by [...]

This year, Black Duck was one of the proud sponsors of the SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity) conference held in Portland, Oregon. SPLASH is “a new ACM SIGPLAN conference dedicated to the art and science of software development.” It originates from OOPSLA, which is one of the most influential conferences on software development. [...]

I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. At the Think Tank, I got to brainstorm on the topic of “Open Source Ethos as an Agent of Change,” which essentially looked at how closed source companies use the open source ethos to energize their [...]

As most of you know, there were two important open source industry events that took place in Paris, France this week. The week started off with the Open Source Think Tank Paris and is concluding with the Open World Forum (OWF). Hundreds of open source experts with different roles and backgrounds (decision makers, communities, developers, [...]