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PJ Hyett : Drinking is a Public Relations Vehicle
we certainly agree: our parties at the House of Shields have been nothing but positive events for us
github  party  drinking  pr  community 
october 2009 by sogrady
MySQL at Facebook in Launchpad
interesting project. need to keep tabs on this one.
mysql  facebook  markcallaghan  rdbms  community  drizzle  mariadb 
august 2009 by sogrady
the agency blog: Palm Just Doesn't Get It...
this is old news, but another indication of why companies need and should be hiring (and empowering) good community managers
palm  pre  unconference  barcamp  communitymanagers  hiring  community  developer  relations 
june 2009 by sogrady
Elijah’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME DVCS Survey results
interesting results from looking at DVCS preferences w/in the GNOME community. git looks like the clear winner from here.
opensource  community  gnome  blog  statistics  dscm  dvcs  svn  hg  git  bzr 
january 2009 by sogrady
An Evolving Cultural Curiosity: We Need A Fake Follow
anyone who's followed my frustrations with disgruntled followers will appreciate how much i'm in favor of this idea
fake  follower  twitter  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  friendfeed  community 
august 2008 by sogrady
Twitter Blog: It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work
Twitter's got nothing to be ashamed of, in my view. yes, their architecture is ill conceived and poorly thought out, but so it has been for most of the startups i've know. their transparency here does them credit, IMO.
twitter  community  future  scalability 
june 2008 by sogrady
Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report Launch | Waugh Partners
don't miss this tomorrow: Waugh Partner's report launch. hope Pia's feeling better for it.
waughpartners  report  opensource  community  australia  jeffwaugh  piawaugh 
march 2008 by sogrady
The Goldfish Chronicles » Blog Archive » Open Source recruiting: Users vs Committers
"I continue to grapple with the concept of how to treat users of Open Source projects. Should you be cruel, or kind?" interesting question; i've forgotten who originally pointed at it.
opensource  community  interaction  cruel  kind 
march 2008 by sogrady
Baseball Taps Wisdom of Fans - WSJ.com
Rob Neyer raised some legitimate objections to this in his blog, but i still think it can't hurt, even if it can't help. there are some very, very smart fans out there (e.g. the USS Mariner's Cameron); the challenge is identifying them and their work.
wisdomofthecrowds  community  metrics  scouting  baseball  stlouiscardinals 
march 2008 by sogrady
Social Media 201 at Churbuck.com
very difficult questions indeed, hinging as they do on personal responsibility, accountability and anonymity
socialmedia  davidchurbuck  interaction  community 
march 2008 by sogrady
rc3.org — How not to handle trolls
except for the problem of determining who, precisely, is a troll, i actually love this idea
trolls  community  ghetto  segregation 
february 2008 by sogrady
Is Gentoo in crisis? [LWN.net]
timely commentary from Donnie on the current state of the Gentoo distribution. everybody interested in developer communications should read it. it's because of this that i always find it amusing that developers detest marketers so much.
donnieberkholz  marketing  communication  community  gentoo  linux 
january 2008 by sogrady
Open source: mob mentality or innovation engine?
an excellent deconstruction of the pre-holidays Lanier piece that criticizes the community development process
capitalism  community  development  opensource  programming  ryanpaul  jaronlanier 
january 2008 by sogrady
Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars at Churbuck.com
i wonder if CafePress did this on their own, or if Ford got involved. either way, Ford's brand suffers.
cafepress  ford  brand  trademark  community  enthusiasts 
january 2008 by sogrady
OSAF 2.0 and Me at Ted Leung on the Air
Ted's looking. if you're smart, you'll look back.
tedleung  osaf  hiring  opensource  community  java  python 
january 2008 by sogrady
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » A community approach to commercial training materials
it's been apparent to me that communities have the capacity to generate far more comprehensive and detailed documentation than commercial firms. no guarantees, of course, but generally true. what will be interesting will be the commercialization.
community  documentation  ubuntu  canonical  markshuttleworth 
december 2007 by sogrady
Now you can donate to Eclipse « Ian Skerrett
will be interested to see how this fares. not just for analysis purposes, either.
eclipse  ianskerrett  donations  funding  community 
december 2007 by sogrady
Getting Paid to Develop [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
in spite of the cautionary tales around funding open source and the impact on participation, dunc-tank being exhibit A as the #redmonkers noted today, injecting new cash into ecosystems can be good, IMO. not exactly how i'd have done it, but not bad.
opensource  sun  funding  community  development  simonphipps 
december 2007 by sogrady
KnowTheMusicBiz.com - HOME
need to check this out in more detail, but it seems what Mr. Rose and co have put together is likely to be of interest for artists
business  community  marketing  music  research 
november 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
"I am personally offended by the various accusations...I humbly ask the community to consider that there are many persons at Sun who have various agenda's which are in several cases being unfairly placed on him."
sun  ianmurdock  benrockwood  community  opensolaris 
november 2007 by sogrady
Eclipse Wins Java Board Seat
a belated congrats to the Apache and Eclipse folks. should make the JCP that much more interesting this year.
jcp  eclipse  apache  sun  java  community 
november 2007 by sogrady
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
"We're seeing calls to revoke the commit rights of individuals who implement something that a community members doesn't like...This is chaos of the worst kind and a sign that people don't trust the system." - at last, a sane take. democracy run amok.
benrockwood  sun  solaris  opensolaris  community  democracy 
november 2007 by sogrady
Marketplace FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - WP Text Ads
interesting that they leverage del.icio.us as the foundation for the Marketplace
del.icio.us  wptextads  marketplace  community 
october 2007 by sogrady
Visualize web connections « Technobabble 2.0
"Once again the old question regarding quality of audience springs to mind. RedMonk at first glance has a superior reach. This does not mean that Gartner has done a poor network as the quality of the people within their ecosystem are extremely high."
visualization  web  connectivity  gartner  redmonk  community 
october 2007 by sogrady
Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
knew peripherally of some of these complaints, but hadn't seen them expressed so explicitly
oo.o  novell  community  michaelmeeks  sun  jca 
october 2007 by sogrady
ooo-speak: Changes
i see this as a major positive for OO.o and for Sun
louissuarez-potts  oo.o  sun  hiring  community 
august 2007 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: Popular Sovereignty
"Approximately eight years ago I submitted an outline of an approach to integrate PHP4 with Java. The response was...'here is your CVS account'. This fundamentally changed my notion of us and them." - Sam, on PHP
samruby  php  community  patches 
july 2007 by sogrady
Colin Charles Agenda » Blog Archive » OpenSolaris: Even the download system puts you off
"An OpenSolaris newbie like me, ended up picking the Community edition...all 3 1GB zip files, you get the pleasure of unzipping...every one of them, and then...use cat to make them into one large DVD ISO." - marked as NI, for Needs Improvement
sun  solaris  express  Community  distribution 
june 2007 by sogrady
LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
Linus is skeptical of Sun's motivations and contributions re: open source (but notably, not the quality of ZFS)
linustorvalds  sun  opensource  community 
june 2007 by sogrady
mjg59: This thread on the Sun initiative to pro
fascinating, not just for the comments on Sun's Project Indiana initiative, but also for the comments discussing the relative merits of the approaches taken by Red Hat, Ubuntu and so on
opensolaris  ubuntu  opensource  redhat  community  procedure 
june 2007 by sogrady
Silicon Island: My thoughts on project Indiana
"It is kind of sad the huge amount of poisonous feedback and noise around the discussion, the people that thinks that the project is not so important, should just let the people who believes in it just work instead of trying to stop them."
Project  indiana  solaris  opensolaris  community  feedback 
june 2007 by sogrady
Sleep Quirk Debugger
hope to see this in Ubuntu soon; lord knows the suspend process in the X60s could use some debugging
suspend  linux  desktop  pm-utils  quirk  hardware  debugging  community  power  fedora 
june 2007 by sogrady
What does CBS want with Last.fm? | Tech News on ZDNet
that is the question indeed. as a long time user of the service, i - like my colleague - means progress for Last.fm. think Bloglines...
cbs  last.fm  acquisition  music  community  history  businessintelligence 
may 2007 by sogrady
Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
very solid list of community building tips
community  building  tips  howto 
may 2007 by sogrady
Planet DB2
for all of your DB2 tracking needs - anybody know why Anant's not on here?
via:Jdub  db2  planet  community 
april 2007 by sogrady
Is being 'fair' what community sites are all about?
"My first response is what I said to my children (and my parents to me) ‘lifes not fair’." - this is what i was taught as well
fair  digg  community 
april 2007 by sogrady
joe shaw
joe on the beagle v tracker debate
beagle  tracker  joeshaw  gnome  opensource  community 
april 2007 by sogrady
Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » Why the Architecture of Participation is compatible with commercial interests
Kaj neatly treads the fine line b/twn commercial and open source interests here; basically where you stand will depend on how you react to this bit "You would merely need to accept that there is a legitimate interest for MySQL to earn money on something"
kajarnö  opensource  duallicense  mysql  architecture-of-participation  community 
march 2007 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
Glynn's right: OpenSolaris community members need to act quickly and save kittens by voting (on a personal note, i'd strongly recommend that you consider voting for Glynn)
glynnfoster  opensolaris  voting  community  ogb 
march 2007 by sogrady
Poo-tee-weet - blog
"a company who's business model depends on being in good standing with an active open source community" - i like this definition, although it's not terribly pratical
opensource  community  definition 
march 2007 by sogrady
Ted Leung on the Air » Blog Archive » Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web
Cote's right: these are the concerns that many have with respect to Adobe, and they'll need to be addressed - great piece by Ted
via:Cote  tedleung  adobe  microsoft  web  openstandards  community 
march 2007 by sogrady
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Gordon's right - this is a very cool video; style almost overwhelms the substance, however
style  gordonhaff  web2.0  metadata  community  presentation 
february 2007 by sogrady
Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » How to Make Your Blog Popular
ha - i violate at least half of these, probably why i'm not popular ;)
blogging  annezelenka  community  popularity  howto 
february 2007 by sogrady
» Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
'The subject of Murdock's "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution.' - Mike is right, this presentation should be *fascinating* - maybe he can drive home just how significant the advantage of package management is
ianmurdock  via:Mike  microsoft  debian  opensource  community 
february 2007 by sogrady
Glynn Foster's Blog
as i told Glynn privately, were i to have a vote in the OGB elections he would have mine; OpenSolaris has plenty of folks that can build their own kernel - what they need, IMO - is more creative and aggressive thinking; i.e., Glynn
glynnfoster  opensolaris  community  elections  ogb 
february 2007 by sogrady
Troubleshooting Beryl - Beryl Wiki
i can't change themes in Emerald, not sure what the problem is
emerald  beryl  bug  themes  community 
february 2007 by sogrady
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002953
Matt's right, this is a good piece by Babcock on evaluating projects; will be obvious to open source intimates, but it's useful background for everyone else
opensource  babcock  via:Matt  health  community  disruption  barriers-to-entry 
february 2007 by sogrady
OpenSolaris Forums: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?] ...
thread 2 on OpenSolaris & the GPL; some legitimate questions being asked, but a whole lot of unnecessary anti-GPL rhetoric, IMO
gplv3  opensolaris  cddl  licensing  opensource  community 
february 2007 by sogrady
Washington Times Blogs - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
i'm a DirecTV customer, so this won't affect me (more than it already does, anyway, stupid blackout rules...) but this is bad news; i'm fine w/ MLB grabbing the money, but pissing off fans is just a bad idea - they should look at the emails Olney's gettin
directv  mlb  baseball  access  fans  community 
january 2007 by sogrady
Simon Phipps, SunMink
Simon on the ODF toolkit news; even more add to my plate to cover...sigh
odf  toolkit  ecosystems  community  plugins 
january 2007 by sogrady
Open Sources | InfoWorld | Two principles of successful open source businesses | January 14, 2007 09:38 PM | By Matt Asay
"Hence, the now ubiquitous "Community" vs. "Professional" or "Enterprise" versions of products, with the hope that Community users will become Professional or Enterprise buyers." - like this post, but do not agree with this assertion
opensource  funambol  asay  community  sales 
january 2007 by sogrady
Forums | Songbirdnest.com
is it me, or does the Songbird forum not have search? weird - they should go get bbPress, meanwhile i guess it's Google Sitesearch for me
bbpress  forums  community  songbird 
january 2007 by sogrady
How WordPress Spoils Developers at The NeoSmart Files
"WordPress isn’t perfect, and we’re the first to admit it. It certainly isn’t the most lightweight blogging platform nor is it the ultimate CMS, but that most definitely hasn’t stopped it from conquering the market."
biggest  community  size  WordPress  cms  via:Matt 
january 2007 by sogrady
Mayor extends a grace period on parking flap - The Boston Globe
Wintertime parking has been an explosive issue in South Boston, where some residents yesterday seemed resolute to keep their spaces...''If he tries to enforce the 48-hour rule, there will be a South Boston Irish uprising" - old article, but makes the poin
parking  southie  boston  winter  chairs  neighborhood  community  culture 
january 2007 by sogrady
Ted Leung on the Air » Blog Archive » Happy New Year!
"But there’s a huge difference between the size of the PyBlosxom community and the size of the WordPress community, and that’s what won me over in the end." - biggest community wins
Wordpress  leung  community  biggest  pyblosxom 
january 2007 by sogrady
Andrew Cowie - On the politics and economics of dual-licencing
"If you are open source/GPL, we are. If you don’t want to comply with the GPL, we’re not open source and not free either — in this case we’re as commercial as you are...It is as simple as this." - perfect response from Christof; love working w/ th
db4objects  redmonkclient  wittig  community 
december 2006 by sogrady
Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : Weblog
read the comments here and then try and tell me it's a bad idea for a CEO to have a blog
startup  sun  schwartz  comments  participation  community 
december 2006 by sogrady
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » An invitation, not a conspiracy
wherein Mark clarifies his recent post and email missive courting OpenSuSE developers
shuttleworth  OpenSuSE  suse  opensource  community  ubuntu  canonical  debian 
november 2006 by sogrady
Open source Java presents world of opportunities | InfoWorld | News | 2006-11-22 | By Paul Krill
the backstory here is (to me) more interesting; Cote using #redmonk as a means to connect with reporters with developers - outstanding, and hope to see more of this
#redmonk  cote  irc  community  java  openource 
november 2006 by sogrady
Serene 1.0 | Theme viewer
one potential theme for when i cut over to WP; i believe this is a port of a TextPattern theme
wordpress  themes  community 
november 2006 by sogrady
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