More Women in GNOME Now!
gnome open source womenThe 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 …
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Should you ask developers for money? And other interesting fundraising dilemnas.
Finance gnome open source Social NetworkingChris 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 →What's your vision of GNOME?
gnome open sourceThe 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 →Can free software transition to the web services world?
open sourceEtherpad 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 …
Read more →How companies leave the community out of the conversation
open sourceThis morning I tried to attend a webinar, The Open Source Community vs. Patent Trolls - Preserving Developer Freedom. I knew the webinar was hosting on software …
Read more →How to plan a hackfest
gnome open sourcehackfest n. A meeting where developers gather together in person to work on a free software project. Hackfests are one of the ways that things get done on free …
Read more →Grants, bounties and free software
interview open sourceBounties or grants are often suggested as a way companies can pay for work on free software projects. The GNOME community has had mixed results with bounties …
Read more →Open source is (still) changing the way work gets done
open source[The beginnings of a keynote. Feedback and input welcome.] Open source is changing the way work gets done. Yeah, yeah, what’s new? We all know that. But …
Read more →Supporting free software with grant money
open source Would you do it again for free?I recently started investigating how GNOME could fund projects with grant money. Will Ross sent me an email with a lot of good information and I’d like to …
Read more →Dries Buytaert's rules for creating a great community
open sourceAt OSBC last week I saw a great presentation by Dries Buytaert on how to build community. Dries is the founder of Drupal. The slides for his presentation (20 …
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