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Afraid you’ll get sued for using open source software? Think again.

https://www.pvgov.com/contact-us/ I gave a talk at LinuxWorld called "Avoiding Open Source Lawsuits: Five Steps to Effective Open Source Governance in the Enterprise." I suppose it wasn’t the wisest title since my point was to dispell FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) not create FUD. (I borrowed the title (and a few slides) from an OpenLogic webinar, although […]

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Imagine twice as many developers

10 Comments / Career, women / Stormy

https://radioencuentro.org/transmedia/machismo-virus/ I didn’t see Danese Cooper‘s talk "Why Whinging Doesn’t Work" but the title has really been bothering me. I almost titled this post "stop telling me to stop whining!" I should start by saying I have never complained about my career in technology. (And I’m sure Danese wasn’t thinking about me personally when she wrote

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Sugar (the software on OLPC) and my conversation with Walter Bender

kids, open source / Stormy

I had a good conversation with Walter Bender, former president of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the founder of Sugar Labs. Sugar is the software that comes on OLPCs. It also comes in some of the Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora and can run on most laptops. Walter is interested in how

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Seven mentors!

2 Comments / Career, gnome / Stormy

So earlier I blogged that I had seven bosses. (It was mostly in reaction to the fact that I felt like I was getting way too much attention!) But I realized this morning that I really feel like I got seven mentors. What a way to start out a new job – with not one

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20 things you can negotiate in a job offer

11 Comments / Career / Stormy

John Mark had a great post 10 Survival Tips for the Modern Wageslave. I thought I’d follow up with another piece of career advice that I never got: every aspect of a job offer is negotiable. I actually got advice from my university career office to NOT negotiate a job offer. Luckily I got other

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Learning not to cry in today’s work place

14 Comments / Career, women / Stormy

One of the things I’m passionate about is encouraging women in technology. With that in mind, I’m going to talk about something that’s never discussed in mixed company: crying at work. Or rather, trying desperately not to cry at work. I’ll tell you how I try not to cry at work and I’ll tell you

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7 of the most common open source myths

open source / Stormy

Here are some of the misunderstandings around open source software that I hear every day. Feel free to add your own! The most important thing is whether you modify the code or not. I keep hearing from people, “we’re ok because we didn’t modify it.” Or they create a policy that doesn’t allow anyone to

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Book Review: Perfectly Legal by David Johnston

Books / Stormy

If you own stock in an American company, you should read this book. If you pay taxes in America, you should read this book. Clearly, I believe everyone should read it. Here’s my quick review (with more details below): David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter formerly with the New York Times, describes what is

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