I was visiting a prospective client this morning, who was interested in using SalomeTMF as a test management framework, and we were discussing whether there was any risk in choosing it as a tool.
To prepare for the meeting, I had a quick look at the project, and while what follows is not a complete analysis, […]

I’ll be at the Open World Forum in Paris tomorrow, October 1st, and Friday October 2nd, in the Eurosite Georges V. I’ll be giving two presentations: GNOME Mobile at 12h10 on Thursday, as part of the FLOSS Mobility Summit, and Does working with Free Software have to be so hard? at 12:00 on Friday, as […]

Mal Minhas of the LiMo Foundation announced and presented a white paper at OSiM World called “Mobile Open Source Economic Analysis” (PDF link). Mal argues that by forking off a version of a free software component to adjust it to your needs, run intensive QA, and ship it in a device (a process which can […]

Jono Bacon asked on the Art of Community blog for successful governance stories, and while I’m happy to comment on the blog, now that I’ve taken the time to write some down, I thought I might as well share them
Governance comes in many shapes & sizes of course. My favourite governance stories are […]

A collection of recent articles of interest:

 From the archives: the best distros of 2000 | TuxRadar: A trip down Linux distribution memory lane - back to the day when WindowMaker was considered “an attractive alternative” to Enlightenment, the old default GNOME window manager.
Polymorph: Hacking Business Models: A few months ago, Monty Widenius and Zack […]

Reposted from my personal blog
Recently I gave a class for a friend of mine in Grenoble as part of an “Introduction to entrepreneurship” course he is teaching for a Masters in business studies. He asked me to explain my activity, how I set myself up administratively, and explain the business model and marketing plan of […]

My previous post on free software business models got some really great feedback, but I think that I was arguing against a straw man that I’ve built up myself. That straw man is the “pure open source start-up”  - and I’m not the only person tilting at this particular windmill.
The false assumption here is that […]

Since the middle of the month, I have moved into a new office, co-locating with local company Aessentia, a company who provide document management and workflow solutions for managing project lifecycles. My new address is:
Neary Consulting
74 rue Maurice Flandin
69003 Lyon
France
It’s been great to get out of the house every day, we already have a plan […]