Ian Tree has written an open letter to IBM asking them to release Domino under an open source license. While I agree with him that open sourcing Domino could have lots of positive effects, he's ignoring the cost and time involved. All those good things might not happen given how hard it is to open […]
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The Diversified Bootstrapper had some intriguing career advice about how to diversify yourself. In addition to having a couple of interesting side projects and consulting gigs, he recommends the type of job you need to have in order to be able to diversify. It's good advice even if you don't decide to diversify. According to
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Whenever I write about something, I usually include a link to Amazon.com. Mostly I include the link so that people can see what I’m talking about. However, every year around Christmas, people find my old posts though google, and buy some of the more interesting gadgets as presents. I can see what they buy through
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This weekend we had the annual Secret Santa party at our house. It wasn't our weekend to have my stepson Jacob so on Sunday morning I went to go get him, so he could attend the party. On the way home, he asked some of the strangest questions. First, he asked if his little brother
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My name is Stormy Peters. You can contact me by sending email to stormyscorner — at — gmail.com. You can also leave a comment on any post where you have something to say! I currently work as the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, IntraHealth Open
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We got our Christmas tree last weekend. We all had a great time playing in the snow. We let Frank do all the real work like pulling sleds, cutting trees and lifting kids out of snowbanks when they got stuck. And for those that are worried that we are cutting down a live tree.
So I have to admit that although I've been preaching for years that open source software needs more documentation, it wasn't really something I worried about. (Probably partially because I have a good network I can always ask when in doubt.) At least that's how I felt until I got my G1 phone. I read
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I ran across the GNOME Advisory Board Minutes from June 2003, back when I was on the advisory board representing HP: Stormy Peters did a presentation about her work on the Open SourceProgram Office at HP, policy, review for releases, and the OSS portal.The Foundation provides: – a bridge between community and the users –
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This is what I ran into this morning. Only the cows I ran into were white. And there were more than 30 of them. And they were running. (I really have to start carrying my camera with me!) Photo by Cameron Maddux. I ended up driving slowly through the cows to pull up to the
Every month we have GNOME advisory board meetings that are designed to bring our sponsors and our community closer together – to open up channels of communication. The topics so far have covered things from usability to GTK+ 3.0 to finances. There's usually a short presentation by the team and then there's time for discussion.
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