Open Source Delivers

Dell dominated a lot of the tech news this week, announcing a new OEM partnership with Red Hat and building an open source laptop for developers. Read about announcements from Dell, HP, The Document Foundation and more: Clint Boulton reported on the news that Dell is designing an open source computer with its new Project [...]

I’m an engineer because I want to understand how things work and I love to expand on that knowledge to make new things work. Recently I stumbled upon an analysis of web browser architecture. It is not surprising that most details in this analysis are from open source browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Firefox), as opposed [...]

At the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit a couple weeks ago, the Linux Foundation announced their annual “Who Writes Linux?” report. Amanda McPherson of TLF blogged about it on April 3, and her comments about what we can extract from the numbers ring true: the Linux Kernel is receiving more and more attention from companies and [...]

Last week I attended EclipseCon 2012 in its new east coast location. It was a great conference, both in terms of speakers and attendees, and over the three days, I had the pleasure of talking with some of the top dogs in the Eclipse world, both in sessions and at the bar. I also got [...]

I just returned from POSSCON (Palmetto Open Source Conference) in Columbia, South Carolina.  For a regional open source event, attendance at 700 was pretty sweet (and so was the Southern hospitality!).  Conference attendees range from large commercial organizations to universities to students.  While there are many developer events on the “left coast” there are few [...]

This week there was more speculation over the future of WebOS, along with another announcement from NASA about its new open source website. Even the US Government is now giving out prizes for open source app development! Read about those stories and more: Brandon Bailey wrote and in depth article about the possible medical future [...]

This past weekend, GTUGs around the world met for a two-day hack-a-thon event to introduce Android application development to thousands of new people. The challenge was set to build an Android app, competing with other Google community groups around the world for global prizes. Local Android experts were available on site. I attended the local [...]

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 [...]

There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week. Companies, communities, foundations and projects were all topics of conversation. Here’s a sample of this week’s open source news: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols gave his review on the Cinnamon throwback to GNOME 2.x with his ZDNet blog, “Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of [...]

“Over time, we’ll get more data, more powerful computers, and better predictive algorithms. We’ll also do better at helping group-level (as opposed to individual) decision making, since many organizations require consensus for important decisions. This means that the ‘market share’ of computer automated or mediated decisions should go up, and intuition’s market share should go [...]