Software As She’s Developed

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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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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I’ve been at the FOSSBazaar workshop in SF for the past couple of days – an afternoon session and a session this morning. It’s part of the Linux Summit, FOSSBazaar being a workgroup of the Linux Foundation (though it’s not Linux-specific). (It was news to me that Good Friday isn’t an official public holiday in [...]

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