Suddenly, it was all clear. The answer was fewer clients. Less money. Caring for them and caring for ourselves.
Jerry Maguire

“Fewer clients. Less money.” Sacrilege in a world where the goal is to grow the first billion dollar “open source vendor”. But that chimera that Matt Asay holds a torch for may never come. Free software […]

From maemo news:
Dave Neary is reading all kinds of maemo content as we speak: developer documentation, mailing list archives, web pages at maemo.org… He has a good reason for that: Nokia is funding some of his time to work as the content guy for the maemo community. Just like Niels Breet, he is being paid […]

The Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign has come to an end. After two weeks, the campaign raised USD$11,368 from over 275 donors, and the campaign badge which people could use to publicise the campaign appeared on over 750 sites, generating in excess of 850,000 page-views over the duration of the campaign.

The Libre Graphics Meeting needs your help!
In its third edition this year, this conference brings together  developers and users from free software graphics projects including the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita and more.
This year, the organisers are asking for your help to make the conference rock, and to cover the travel costs of as many […]

Last week I was in China for the first Linux Foundation/COPU China Developers Symposium.
I got a chance to catch up with some people I had met before including Jim Zemlin and Bill Weinberg, both of whom had very encouraging things to say about GNOME in mobile platforms. In fact, I will be organising a […]

Linux Magazine France, November 2006 (article online, December 2007):
On n’utilise pas des mots comme “turnover” (taux d’attrition) pour les volontaires, mais il est intéressant de regarder pourquoi ce phénomène existe. Quels sont les caractéristiques qui font que certains projets ont plus de facilité à garder leurs développeurs que d’autres ?
Like professional projects, some community projects […]