Do you miss the hallway track at conferences? All those impromptu conversations with other people that care about open source software? So do we. Come join us in a virtual hallway track! Topic: Foundations vs self-host https://twitter.com/storming/status/1260249576746782720 Notes & Coordination: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting+1 323-849-4874 Â United States, Los Angeles (Toll) Conference ID: 675 807 […]
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Do you miss the hallway track at conferences? All those impromptu conversations with other people that care about open source software? So do we. Come join us in a virtual hallway track! Topic: May 6: Open Standards and Open Source Location:https://meet.jit.si/OpenSourceHallwayTrack Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 16:00 UTC Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset San
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Do you miss the hallway track at conferences? All those impromptu conversations with other people that care about open source software? So do we. Come join us in a virtual hallway track! Topic: April 29: Giving Good FeedbackMay 6: Standards and Open Source What topic should we discuss at our next Virtual Open Source Hallway
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First published on Medium. Companies with the newer “sharing economy†business models are gamifying work. They are making people work hard in ways that resemble how they play video games. To better understand this, I compare their models to the components of a game as given by Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal: Goal: A
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First published on Medium. When role models are risk adverse, they change the game for everyone. Last night at kickball, a young woman on the other team decided to start bunting and she changed the preferred strategy for women on both teams. She was a strong player and she obviously thought her best option, maybe
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First published on Medium. Many open source organizations start around code. Someone has an idea and they write some code to express it. If people like the idea, they add more code. That code gets reviewed and incorporated. This works great while the project rallies around the original idea. However,when they go to add new
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Many app developers are secretly hoping to win the lottery. You know all those horrible free apps full of ads? I bet most of them were hoping to be the next Flappy Bird app. (The Flappy Bird author was making $50K/day from ads for a while.) The problem is that when you are that focused
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Do bribes or fines work in your work culture? When your culture changes, some of it will feel like bribes and some of it will feel like fines. It all depends on your cultural background. I was recently in a small town in Mexico and the (new) city government was explaining to us the changes
Anything You Want is a book by Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby. Derek shares how he created a muli-million dollar company (supposedly he sold it for $22 million) as well as his philosophy around why you should start a business and how he ran a company. It sounds like he’s a pretty unique
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“Where there is no competition, there is no market. This is why start-ups who “have no competition” have trouble engaging partners and making sales.” – Geoffrey Moore, Escape Velocity Open source projects often shy away from competition. They value collaboration and leveraging existing solutions. But competition is good for more than making you run faster.
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