OTS partners James Vasile and Karl Fogel recently wrote a post for O'Reilly Radar about common mistakes that companies make when they start to get involved in open source. They write: Open source reinvents relationships and business dynamics, turning customers and even competitors into collaborators. Firms embrace it to encourage …
GitHub hosted the "Wontfix Cabal" last week in San Francisco, and I was lucky enough to attend, thanks to a pointer from a friend. The organizers, led by Jess Frazelle, conceived the gathering as a chance for people maintaining open source projects to discuss their particular difficulties and some strategies …
OTS has been lucky enough to work with the Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois (CNI) for the past year and a half, thanks in large part to the civic data community at Chi Hack Night. With Jim McGowan, CNI's Director of Planning and Situational Awareness, we developed the …
Note: This is a draft of a Code of Conduct meant to help a specific open source project give guidance to its commercial participants. The project is already in production use, and is successful enough that some commercial entities have become involved, offering support, hosting services, customization, etc. However, those …
My piece "Dissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial" has just been posted at the IEEE Software Blog. Comments over there, please. Many thanks to editor Stefano Zacchiroli for editing, and for suggesting a post in the first place.
