Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2010
In his article,”BDFL considered (potentially) harmful,” Steve McMahon makes some important observations about moral vs. legal authority of open-source project leaders and the importance of paying attention to the ownership of your open-source project’s trademarks and intellectual property, not just the license on the code. Worth a read.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2010
Data.seattle.gov formally launched nearly two months ago, with a flurry of press releases, an initial batch of “60 datasets” and the promise of more. I thought I’d take a quick look and see how the platform and the community are evolving. Unfortunately, its potential is still mostly unfulfilled. I’m bummed. About the only positive thing [...]
Posted in General on Jul 2nd, 2009
WordPress released an opinion from the Software Freedom Law Center today confirming that WordPress themes must be GPL, although the images and CSS in a theme don’t have to be. This is substantially similar to how Plone and Drupal have always thought that GPL applies to themes and add-on products, and it’s nice to see [...]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2007
David Eaves thinks that community leadership is the core, make-or-break competency of an open-source software project. I agree. He shares a story that illustrates a pattern I’ve rarely seen in the Plone community, and hope to continue not seeing. One of the key ideas I’m interested in pushing is how “open†open source communities are [...]
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
I’m thrilled, humbled and honored to have been elected to the Plone Foundation board of directors! I’ll be joining an amazing team of people, including: Nate Aune Geir Bækholt Joel Burton Darci Hanning Alex Limi Steve McMahon (and me!) Plone Conference 2007 has been an inspiring, energizing, brain-filling week. I’ve talked with dozens of people [...]
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
Tom Moroz, Open Society Instiute Intro by Alan Runyan: the future of open source software looks very much like the path that nonprofits and civil society organizations have blazed. Heard a lot about Seattle 2006 conference and the strong community. At first I wondered what the connection between open society and open source was, but [...]
