Archive for 'OpenSource'
Ubuntu Developer Summit
It looks like I’ll be starting to blog on our main company site before too long, which will hopefully include someone standing behind me with a sharp stick, poking me and making me write more.
In the meantime, here’s my quarterly blog post.
I was finally able to attend an Ubuntu Developer Summit last month, this time [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under OpenSource, Puppet.
Tags: conference, Puppet, travel, ubuntu, uds
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The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source
Tarus Balog is on a one-man campaign against open-core licensing, or really, any company that produces both open source and closed source software:
Of course, in the open core model there must be “commercially-available extensions” in order to get companies to sign a “commercial license”. Why is this? Because the open core product has been intentionally [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2009 under Development, OpenSource.
Tags: licesning, opencore, opennms, OpenSource, Puppet, strategy
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Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call
We had another developer call last night, and until I can get the audio posted, here’s a basic summary.
Development Workflow
We led the discussion with a conversation about how the development workflow will change now that we’re finally releasing the code in master as 0.25. After much discussion, we largely concluded that the least-surprise solution was [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2009 under Development, OpenSource, Puppet.
Tags: Development, facter, OpenSource, Puppet, reductive, release, workflow
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Puppet on the IT Management Podcast
I was a guest on last week’s IT Management Podcast again last week, and we ended up talking a lot about Puppet and the difficulties in running an open source software company. As always, John Willis and Coté are informed and interesting. Give it a listen, and maybe subscribe to the whole series.
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Geek, OpenSource, Puppet, Sysadmin, luke.
Tags: cote, podcast, Puppet
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