Recently I met someone who insisted on describing every department in his organization, all the acronyms and what they stood for. By the time he got around to …
Read more →Typically free software projects have lots of very smart developers. Large projects like GNOME might also be lucky enough to have lots of great translators, …
Read more →I’ve recently watched a few people struggle to get things done in online projects. I’ve written and spoken on 12 tips for getting things done in the …
Read more →When it comes to web applications, I think free and open source software fans are settling for “free” instead of looking for the freedom they would …
Read more →In 2003 I gave a talk in Malaysia. What I noticed immediately is that my audience was well over half women. This was really noticeable because they were all …
Read more →The GNOME community is extremely diverse when it comes to nationality. But we don’t have many women working on GNOME. We want to make sure that women …
Read more →Chris Blizzard introduced me to Clay Johnson. I had such an interesting time talking to him about social networking, free and open source software, governments …
Read more →The GNOME Foundation’s mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone. Accessible regardless of their ability to pay, their physical ability …
Read more →I “multitask” all the time. But every time I’m on a conference call and I have to say “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that,” …
Read more →Etherpad is being released as open source software because the team is moving onto Google Wave. As an open source web hosted project, without a company behind …
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