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Notes from the Politics of Open Source conference
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| Small conferences are often the best,
| especially when there's a high concentration
| of really well-educated and personally
| committed people sharing a room for two days.
| That's what I found at the Politics of Open
| Source conference at the University of
| Massachusetts Amherst on Friday. (I could
| attend only the second day.)
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/conference-on-the-politics-of.html
Organizations Learning to Contribute to FOSS âThe Right Wayâ
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| A keynote which really stood out and
| succinctly discussed all of this was Dan
| Fryeâs talk, â10+ Years of Linux at IBMâ
| (video). The first half of the keynote
| discusses the progress of Linux within IBM,
| but then he moves into discussing
| contributing itself. Some of their take-
| aways were that they needed to get involved
| directly with small contributions and do
| away with closed-door meetings and canned
| corporate responses, IBM employees were
| empowered to become community members. They
| needed to learn to collaborate with the
| community to develop higher quality
| solutions than they could have in-house,
| and to start these discussions with the
| community early in the brainstorming
| process. Related to collaboration, he also
| discusses control, and how a company does
| not have it within a community and needs to
| learn to deal with that, instead what a
| company should strive for is influence
| within a project to help guide direction
| and priorities. He also suggests never
| creating a project. Instead he encourages
| companies to join a project thatâs close to
| what they need and work with them to take
| it in a direction that can benefit everyone
| and reach their goals and scratch their
| itches.
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http://blog.remoteresponder.net/2010/05/07/organizations-learning-to-contribute-to-foss-the-right-way/
Open source's integration jams -- and how to fix them
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| "It's a step-by-step process," Wang says.
| "First we put in an application server, an
| Apache Web server. Then, over time, we put
| in all the Linux operating systems and
| migrated away from Sun hardware. Then we
| switched the BEA application server out to
| JBoss," he adds, naming just a few of the
| changes eHealth made. Nine years later, his
| company's production environment consists
| of open-source applications completely,
| except for an Oracle database. "It's all
| [open-source software], from operating
| systems, middleware, application server,
| Web server and more," Wang says.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/348124/Open_source_s_integration_jams_and_how_to_fix_them
âDo not sell anything to your communityâ
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/05/10/do-not-sell-anything-to-your-community/
Lightcrest Joins Lucid Imagination Global Partner Program for Open Source Search
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lightcrest-joins-lucid-imagination-global-partner-program-for-open-source-search-93318294.html
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