Posts in category 'Open Source'

Speaking at the FSF Meeting, Libre Planet ‘09

On Saturday and Sunday I’m going to be at the FSF Meeting in Cambridge MA where I’m going to talk about The Free and Open Cloud.
Of course I’m not talking about Free-as-in-Beer here, but instead software freedom, and how the cloud is a new battleground for Free and Open Source software — something that [...]

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Upcoming Slingshot Roadmap

If you hadn’t heard, I’ll be presenting Slingshot at Railsconf Europe in Berlin this September. For the presentation I would like to have product to show and answers to all the questions posed at the last presentation at Railsconf US – so I’m stepping up Slingshot development between now and mid-September.
I want to periodically [...]

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Project Indiana (OpenSolaris) Session at OSCON 2007

If you want to know what is going on with OpenSolaris and you happen to be in Portland at the OSCON conference, get yourself to the Project Indiana session taking place on Thursday, July 26th at 2pm in Room D132. On hand will be Sun’s OpenSolaris gurus and our own Ben Rockwood, so this [...]

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Ruby / Rails community building in action

One of the nice things about living in a city like Vancouver is that there’s enough geek population to support user groups, even for rather “niche” languages like Ruby or Python.
I’ve always been interested in community development (opensource and otherwise) and in particular what happens when communities are “tested”. That’s happening right now in [...]

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Joyent Connector: Free + Open

Last Friday, Joyent made Connector free + open. Free in that anyone can sign up for a complimentary 2 User/ 2 GB plan and Open in that anyone can view the source, download it via svn, and contribute.
Continue reading to learn a little more about what Free + Open Connector means for users, developers, + [...]

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