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 …
When you hire a development shop to build an open source product, you want to make sure the result is truly open source. You want to guarantee that: The end product is independently deployable by others. There are clear instructions for how to get involved. Commercial third parties are welcome …
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.
