From Policy to Process: Best Practices for Creating an Open Source Governance Process
GovernanceArticle Source WaziApril 17, 2009, 11:04 am These days, practically every company out there is involved with free and open source software (FOSS) in one way or another, but don‚Äôt be fooled by the use of the words ‚Äúfree‚Äù and ‚Äúopen‚Äù: FOSS still needs to be managed just like any other…
Corporate Participation in Open Source Communities
GovernanceArticle Source FOSSBazaarJune 5, 2009, 2:10 am Someone recently asked me a few question about corporate participation in open source communities and I thought I’d share my thoughts on this topic here. Are there differences between an open source project done for a corporation and one done for personal reasons? There…
LCA: The Business of Open Source, New Zealand, January 2010
GovernanceArticle Source FOSSBazaarJuly 9, 2009, 10:13 am We are submitting a proposal to hold a mini-conf for people interested in the business of open source at LCA 2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz/. This mini-conf is for people interested in business aspects of open source.  Topics include licensing your work, building a market, building a community, gathering…
Collaboration of Customers as an Open Business Model
GovernanceArticle Source FOSSBazaarAugust 31, 2009, 3:45 am I’m currently managing and facilitating the Validos-collaboration ‚Äì it’s an open collaboration of companies for open source compliance. Validos does the basic validation of open source software packages and shares the results with every participating company/entity. Thus the basic work is done only once.…
GPLv2 Falls from Majority Share
GovernanceArticle Source FOSSBazaarSeptember 17, 2009, 6:31 am I noticed in the first week of August, the GPL version 2 open source license dropped below the 50% share mark for the first time since we started tracking this data in 2007. Up until this point, a majority of open source projects were…
F/OSS and the Public Sector
GovernanceArticle Source FOSSBazaarOctober 28, 2009, 2:14 am I’ve long held the view that the public sector stands to gain more from the adoption of F/OSS technology and principles than perhaps any other area. This is not just about saving on software licensing, reducing integration and support costs, fostering reuse and increasing…