Mifos at OSCON 2008
Posted by adam in Interesting, Propaganda, Work
Mifos’s beloved director George Conard will be giving a talk on Mifos at the 2008 O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon.
The phrase double bottom line refers to having a bottom line besides just profit.
Shell History Meme
Posted by adam in Fun, Interesting
As seen on Planet Fedora…
[adamm@snax ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a)\ {print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 79 svn 68 vim 57 cd 35 ls 32 pwd 25 ant 20 s 19 mysql 19 find 12 mv
“s” is aliased to “cd ..”.
Robocop is Still an Awesome Movie
Posted by adam in Fun
That is all.
Fostering a Volunteer Community
Posted by adam in Interesting, Propaganda
Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) knows a thing or two about fostering a geeky volunteer community. A desire to do well at my current post of “Mr. Open Source” on the Mifos project has led me to try and learn some lessons from people like Jimmy. Here are two crucial points gleaned from an interview with him on FLOSS Weekly:
- small group dialogs are best, too many people on one problem ends in voting/groupthink
- build a system that supports bees and and handles wasps (my verbage)
Eben Moglen on Technology and Freedom
Posted by adam in Interesting, Propaganda
I’ve been enjoying strolling through the FLOSS Weekly archives; a collection of one-on-one interviews with key players in FLOSS. Here’s a quote that really speaks to why FLOSS is something to pay attention to:
“Free as in Freedom” is a really important concept. That is, technology really as to be free in some important ways if people are to have political freedom.
- Eben Moglen, speaking on the GPL version 3 during FLOSS Weekly interview.
Sunstroke Prevention for Fun and Profit
Posted by adam in Fun, Odd, Travel
Bryan recently pointed out that a popular tourist “festival activity” in Beijing is “sunstroke prevention”.