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"Bouquet of Flowers in a Sculpted Vase", Jan Frans Eliaerts, via Wikimedia Commons

#9: Flowers for Support

Dave and Gunnar talk about two-factor, open source health, homomorphism, OpenStack security, and why Dave needs to send flowers to Red Hat Support

“Patches Welcome”: Quicksilver edition

If you want something done, don’t tell me it’s important to you. Show me. I will spend hours and hours answering your programming questions on the mailing list, or looking over your code, but I’m not going to spend 20 minutes on a feature or plugin if I don’t need it.

→ 17 April 2013

10 Years of Red Hat

Almost ten years ago, we made this: And we just released this: What they share, and what’s different, tells you everything you …

Fail Faster

#1: Fail Faster

Dave and Gunnar talk about the Air Force, sequestration, why the CIA is worried about education, and why TSA Pre-check is the greatest thing for air travel since e-ticketing.

DOL is with the program.

“Before enactment of this requirement for data exchange standardization, the Department had been a proponent of and strong advocate for the use of open source technologies and data exchange standards in the development of IT systems…”

→ 22 February 2013

Predictions for 2013

I really don’t like making predictions, and I really really don’t like skeumorphic interfaces. That means you’ll really enjoy this article in Modern Governing magazine.

Open Source in Government FAQ

The Department of Defense has a much longer and more comprehensive FAQ on this same subject. Can the government use open source? …

A “New to Open Source” Reading List

A non-technical colleague of mine wanted to learn more about the IT industry and open source. He asked for some reading suggestions, and here it is. It’s heavy on open source, as you might expect.

Make Your Public Interest Apps Open Source.

There’s a disturbing trend in public-interest apps: They’re released for free, but without clear open source licensing or access to source code.

I think it’s not that the developers don’t want the apps to be open source — they just don’t think of doing it (and perhaps don’t understand, or don’t know from personal experience, how great the possibilities would be if they did it).

→ 17 June 2012