The Osmosoft team as of October 2007
I struggled to come up with a more imaginative title for this post and I’m not very good at writing this sort of thing so you’ll have to bear with me.
After close to three years with the group my last week at Osmosoft has just drawn to a close. [...]
A few weeks ago I was very fortunate to be able to make it along to the Linux Foundation’s annual Collaboration Summit. Fortunate not only because it is invite only, but due also to the financial crisis making travel somewhat trickier and transatlantic travel extremely difficult. Plus a few weeks later and it would [...]
As an ex-electronics engineer, hardware geek and a strong advocate of free and open source software, it should come as no surprise that I get more than a little excited at the prospect of open source hardware. Late 2007 I got my hands on a prototype of the Openmoko hardware, a Linux smartphone platform for [...]
It was brought to my attention yesterday, that an article which I wrote for the UK Unix User Group on “The Growing Need for F/OSS Governance”, and which went out to the UKUUG membership in print before Christmas, is now available to all online.
Taking inspiration from a similar blog post by colleague Jon Lister, I thought I’d take time out to reflect on my first year with Osmosoft.
When Osmosoft was first acquired by BT and we gained a Head of Open Source Innovation, there was, as you would expect, speculation from the internal pre-existing open source community, as [...]
There can be many barriers to the adoption of FOSS in the Enterprise, but thankfully most can be be tackled with relative ease. In the early stages of adoption these can range from common misconceptions fueled by FUD-spreading vendors, to initial difficulty interpreting FOSS license conditions. Beyond which, commonly voiced concerns include:
How do I [...]
It was another first for me this July as I attended O’Reilly’s prestigious Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. After attending FOSDEM earlier this year OSCON had a tough act to follow, as for me at least the former was just about as close as you could get to the perfect FOSS technology/community conference: [...]
BT announced last Wednesday (23rd July 2008) that it had joined the FOSSBazaar initiative as a strategic partner. “FOSSBazaar is an open source community of technology and industry leaders who are collaborating to accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise”, and operates as a work group of the Linux Foundation.
It was [...]
Earlier this month I attended my first OpenTech at the University of London Union. It happened be on a Saturday and coincided with my birthday, two facts that combined were the cause of bewilderment and horror for friends and family who happened to ask what I’d be doing to celebrate turning 33 years old. [...]
I recently wrote an article for Canada’s Open Source Business Resource on the need for F/LOSS governance in the Enterprise. The piece was published this week and can be found here. Feedback would be very much appreciated and comments can be left at the OSBR website or if preferred E-mailed to me direct.
This is an [...]