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Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.
Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:
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Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.
Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:
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Podcasts to come/Posted
Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.
Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:
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Podcasts to come/Posted
Red Hat releases Spacewalk. It is described as: “the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived“. Congratulations to all whom have worked on it, especially my friends who tired endlessly over it in the past.
Red Hat, is sticking true to its promise, of open sourcing everything they make. Best of all, they recognise Fedora (they always did, since say, Fedora Core 2 or 3), CentOS (a direct “competitor”/rebuild of RHEL), and Scientific Linux (I know of a certain university’s sysadmin who will be blessing Spacewalk, as her life will now be a lot easier).
There have been a few blogs about it… Matt Asay asks about a community (Red Hat traditionally wasn’t good at this, but with Fedora, I believe they’ve learned, and I’m happy …
[Read more]The second half of last week I attended the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon which Sun and MySQL were silver sponsors of. The events were co-located at the Hynes convention center in Boston.
Although both events featured an impressive list of topics and
tracks, other than the keynotes I spent the majority of my time
meeting and talking to people. One of my goals was to
figure out how Sun can better work with Fedora to get more of our software into their
distro.
A few key Fedorans: Max Spevak, Dennis Gilmore, Tom "Spot"
Callaway, Jeremy Katz, Paul Frields, Jesse Keating.
President and CEO Jim Whitehurst chats with Fedora board member, Karsten Wade, …
[Read more]The second half of last week I attended the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon which Sun and MySQL were silver sponsors of. The events were co-located at the Hynes convention center in Boston.
Although both events featured an impressive list of topics and
tracks, other than the keynotes I spent the majority of my time
meeting and talking to people. One of my goals was to
figure out how Sun can better work with Fedora to get more of our software into their
distro.
A few key Fedorans: Max Spevak, Dennis Gilmore, Tom "Spot"
Callaway, Jeremy Katz, Paul Frields, Jesse Keating.
President and CEO Jim Whitehurst chats with Fedora board member, Karsten Wade, …
[Read more]The second half of last week I attended the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon which Sun and MySQL were silver sponsors of. The events were co-located at the Hynes convention center in Boston.
Although both events featured an impressive list of topics and
tracks, other than the keynotes I spent the majority of my time
meeting and talking to people. One of my goals was to
figure out how Sun can better work with Fedora to get more of our software into their
distro.
A few key Fedorans: Max Spevak, Dennis Gilmore, Tom "Spot"
Callaway, Jeremy Katz, Paul Frields, Jesse Keating.
President and CEO Jim Whitehurst chats with Fedora board member, Karsten Wade, …
[Read more]Matt Asay is excited about Red Hat’s Spacewalk project to release the code behind its Red Hat Network Satellite product under an open source license (as he should be, he’s been waiting over a year for it). As well as anticipation, Matt’s excitement can also be attributed to the potential for Spacewalk to become the default management platform for open source software.
As he writes:
“What is the first thing that MySQL and JBoss did to add value to their support subscriptions? Build networks. What, presumably, will be the first things that other open-source companies do? Build networks.
What is the result? A swamp of incompatible service-delivery networks.
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[Read more]I?ve been reading The Bee Keeper (also here in PDF), an explanation of the relationship between professional open source software (POSS) vendors and their communities, written by Pentaho?s CTO James Dixon. It is a very elegant explanation of the development/business model employed by the POSS vendors such as MySQL, Pentaho, JBoss and Alfresco.
James uses the analogy of the Bee Keeper to explain the model. It?s worth reading the paper in its entirety to understand just how appropriate this is but to put it very simply: the vendor is the bee keeper; the community is the bees; the open source project is the honey; and the customer …
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To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open
source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that
are competing in the tournament.
Sweden crashed out of EURO 2008 last night a Russia qualified for the knockout stages with a well-deserved 2-0 win. As home to MySQL Sweden might be expected to be one of the more progressive adopters of open source but while there is significant interest, details of deployment projects are relatively hard to find.
Key policies:
The Swedish Agency for Public Management?s 2003 …