#7: Welcome to our world.

This week Dave and Gunnar on bad landing gear and Google Apps, more gerbil games, Jim Whitehurst on support, OpenStack, Pandora, the semiotics of IT.

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Show Notes

• The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
  • the Solarized color scheme
• Super-pluggable architectures as the Landing Gear Problem anti-pattern: Google Apps Script to make Google Now notes into Remember the Milk tasks
• GSA mentions open source as a cost saver, page 22
• Black Duck 2013 Survey: “Open Source is eating the world.”
• Gunnar’s at Marcus Evans Cloud Computing & Assurance for Critical DoD Initiatives Event April 23-25th, Gunnar’s talking on the 23rd
• DC PaaS Roadshow Wednesday, April 24th
• Dave’s Beyond the Bits webinar Thursday, April 25
• OSI Open Source License Clinic Thursday, May 9 in DC
• Open Source Community Summit Friday, May 10 in DC
• Cleveland Mini Maker Faire recap
  • See Lauren demo the guinea pig game
• CodeSpells from UCSD
• Jim Whitehurst starring as new support associate
  • Management escalation mobile phone numbers
• RDO doesn’t stand for Red Hat Distribution of OpenStack
  • Red Hat is the top contributor to Grizzly.
  • Red Hat Summit
  • Really cool Summit infographic
• Pandora
  • See Lauren Egts’ Akron LUG GlusterFS presentation for more info
• @katemats: “a meeting is essentially a write lock for your organization” @littleidea love that analogy #hangops
  • And a write lock doesn’t necessarily mean something gets written either
• Words matter, like semiotics

We Give Thanks

• Gaurav “G” Narain Saxena for inviting Dave and his daughter to the Cleveland Mini Maker Faire and all his fine work with the SYN-HAK hacker space in Akron
• The Cleveland Game Developers for Maker Faire booth space so Dave and his daughter could sing the praises of open source game development for kids and demo The Great Guinea Pig Escape
• Eric Mill for the GSA report tip
• Sunlight Foundation for scout
• Travis Ogdon for our picture of the week