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.
April 27, 2008
April 13, 2008
Shell History Meme
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 ..”.
April 9, 2008
April 5, 2008
Fostering a Volunteer Community
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)
April 2, 2008
Eben Moglen on Technology and Freedom
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.