open source

Building Open Source Communities

April 22, 2006

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, is giving a talk on building communities around Open Source. For Mike, the key elements of creating an open source platform are: Great Technology Broad Adoption Architecture of Participation Hijacked by a Fanatical Community His talk is excellent. Eclipse is a cool blend of traditional hacker-driven open [...]

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Snort… XORP… sniffle…

February 23, 2006

Nope. The blog doesn’t have a cold. Those are the names of some of the open source projects that Om Malik has highlighted in his latest story on the impact of open source in the telecoms world. Or at least, Snort and XORP are… there is no sniffle to my knowledge. There’s no doubt that [...]

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Singing the Voice 2.0 Song with Ernie

November 17, 2005

Tom Howe has been writing about his vision for voice centric applications. He calls it Ernie: Why Ernie? Well, I like Ernie. He’s a rebel, he’s an anarchist, and he’s just slightly smarter than Burt. There’s a personal connection here too, and I just want to emphasize that I look nothing like Ernie. Well, not [...]

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The Movie-Train Manifesto

October 17, 2005

Hugh Macleod has convinced film director, and friend, David MacKenzie to open source his next script. The entire script is posted to the web, waiting for feedback.

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VON Day 1 Wrap

September 19, 2005

It’s been a busy day here at the VON show. I managed to run into fellow bloggers Richard Stasny, Phil Wolff (Skype Journal), and my old friend Bob Frankston. Following the three industry insight sessions by Jeffrey Citron, Tom Evslin, and Maddog Hall, we headed over the main exhibit hall. I don’t know whether the [...]

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OpenWengo

September 10, 2005

wengo, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders. Here it is — the newest challenger to Skype, from France. SIP based, and open source. My Wengo ID is ASaunders. Download at http://www.openwengo.com, and drop me a line.

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