Open Source is more than just code dumps

29 October 2010
1 minute read

Great quote from Matt Asay's analysis of what went wrong with the opening of Symbian:

Open source isn’t a one-time announcement, coupled with a code drop. It’s exceptionally hard, ongoing work that requires equal parts evangelism, programming, and customer success stories to keep developers believing that their work matters.

This is very much in line with what I wrote about Open Projects earlier. I'll be giving a talk on the subject in COSS's OpenMind conference on Nov 10th.

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Notes from the Russian Open Source Forum

28 April 2005. 5 minute read.
Russian Open Source Forum was a gathering of local software companies, Open Source developers and government IT people that brought together about 1500 participants. The event’s celebrities were Jon “Maddog” Hall from Linux International and Larry Wall, the Perl creator.

Open Source Consulting for the Government

09 June 2004. 1 minute read.
Here in Finland the government has been pushing Open Source for a while already.The Ministry of Finance started an Open Source examination project back in 2001, and made openness of code and interfaces a recommendation for governmental information systems (also in Finnish).In addition, the Ministry of Interior is funding the Finnish Center for Open Source Software (COSS), an Open Source...