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FOSS resources and articles related to Africa

Monday, July 6, 2009

I spent a little time over the weekend gathering information about free and open source software in Africa, and found at least one active pan-African FOSS organization (FOSSFA), and several interesting articles about governments in Africa using FOSS to open data, and make government more accountable. It seems that the Shuttleworth Foundation sponsors projects, although [...]

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Inspiration to project

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Kathy Sierra tweeted today about the transition from talking to doing in tech culture. We have Camps, but getting from the inspired conversation to actually producing something useful isn’t always easy. Kathy used the term ‘jam’ to describe what it is when people get together to create something, rather than just talk about it. Here [...]

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An opportunity for Postgres

Thursday, April 30, 2009

I wrote up my thoughts on the opportunities for Postgres in light of the Oracle/Sun merger, and the response from our communities. An excerpt: As a developer and a sysadmin, my enthusiasm for Postgres comes directly from the people that work on the code. The love of their craft – developing beautiful, purpose-built code – [...]

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What works? Getting more women involved in open source.

Monday, April 27, 2009

When you have a community, and you notice that there’s an imperfect distribution in participation, what do you do? How do you increase participation of a particular minority group? What should your goal be? For example, if you have an open source project, and you need more programmers to contribute — what do you do? [...]

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The future of free and open source support models

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I attended the MySQL Conference all last week, and am feeling very excited about the future of open source databases. I had many interesting discussions and met a ton of Drizzle hackers I was lucky enough to spend Friday with, digging through code. I was talking with Paul Vallée of the Pythian Group Thursday about [...]

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Women Who Code – where are they?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

[ I was working on a blog post about the Women In Open Source roundtable I ran, and then Brenda Wallace tweeted: "it seems reasonably easy 2 get women involved in opensource documentation, ui design, and even management. Why is it hard 2 get women coding?" Here's my longer response, mostly with ideas I got [...]

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