Software As She’s Developed

standard live blogging warning Continuing on from part 1 … Phil Hawksworth: Playing with Each Others’ Toys Phil describes the open source spectrum, from open-fan to open-curious to open-skeptic. Open source is about sharing, so in that spirit, he’s going to show us some toys he’s made. First up, Polaroiderizer. One of his lessons from this was don’t register a [...]

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standard live blogging warning I’m here at TheTeam offices in London Bridge, with a number of my Osmosoft colleagues for this open source event. Event Announcement The agenda: Iain Farrell, Canonical – Ubuntu Update Julien Fourgeaud, Symbian – Managing the Symbian community Jeremy Ruston, Osmosoft – HTML5 and the slow death of Flash Leisa Reichelt, Disambiguity.com – Drupal 7 Update Phil Hawksworth, The [...]

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As mentioned in the previous post, I was at Open World Forum in Paris these past couple of days. Previous notes covered today’s FOSSBazaar workshop, here’s a veritable panaply of miscellany from the other sessions. Opening Keynotes Risk of balkanisation in communities govt (mil.forge) commercial (gcode) ?developer (eclipse) Worldwide IT spend 3.48T 18% of apps abandoned 55% “challenged” Poprietary software quality [...]

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Quick notes from today’s FOSSBazaar event at Open World Forum in Paris. Usual caveats on typos etc as I was writing these notes live. Martin Michlmayr overviews FOSSBazaar Procurement – might like to avoid, but they have a really important role to play. With open source, it’s easy to ignore procurement – why go through procurement when [...]

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Google groups thread Bespin has the idea of multiple backends attaching to the same client. Right now, Python is apparently “winning” while Java has fallen behind and PHP appears to have faded away. The situation is very analogous to Shindig (http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/) which has a strong Java back-end, a PHP back-end that took a long time to get started in earnest and AFAICT [...]

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Just a pointer to a TiddlyGuv article I’ve put up on FossBazaar. TiddlyGuv is an early-stage open-source governance system.

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I will round out the FOSSBazaar workshop series with some comments on collaboration between TiddlyGuv and FOSSology. First, what’s FOSSology? Simply put, FOSSology in its current state is a code/license scanner. You upload content, like a RedHat ISO, and it recursively explodes it into individual files, also recognising by way of checksums when a file is [...]

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I’ve just presented TiddlyGuv at the FOSSBazaar workshop, the event I wrote about yesterday. It’s a good time to introduce TiddlyGuv – I’ve mentioned it in some talks and tweeted about it on occasion, but this is its maiden appearance on Software As She’s Developed. TiddlyGuv (that’s a code name we’ll use for a while) is [...]

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Just back from Clay Shirky’s talk. I’ve been following him for years, so it was great to see him live. Notes taken on my phone, typo beware! Today – launching softback edition of book and updating thesis since then (incl recent events includig Obama). “speculative” “group action just got easier” So what happens when u lower the cost of [...]

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Just as I was writing this post on ignorance of open source models, there was news of a major publisher making a print edition of Wikipedia. This led to backlash reactions which illustrate exactly the kind of misunderstanding that arises when people don’t get open-source licenses (via ReadWriteWeb. The whole point of Wikipedia is to provide [...]

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