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Report from SCaLE 7x

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Awesome booth volunteers Noel and Erez! In the elevator this morning, a person asked me if I was with the SCaLE conference. He started by saying that he was really happy that we (the people attending the conference) were there, and that he hoped for Linux to be successful. And then he said, “I’m a [...]

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Stormy Peters: Money, developers and creativity

Monday, February 11, 2008

Sunday’s keynote at SCaLE was given by Stormy Peters. She talked about open source, business contributions and the social and financial economies driving development. Three of her research questions were: What is the initial motivation that encourages people to contribute? How do companies pay for open source contributions? (and what’s the effect?) How do companies [...]

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