Reposted from gnome.org One of the most important things you can do in a free software project, besides writing code, is to get your key contributors together as often as possible. I’ve been fortunate to be able to organise a number of events in the past 10 years, and also to observe others and learn [...]

Reposted from my personal blog Who knew that educating people in simple sabotage (defined as sabotage not requiring in-depth training or materials) could have so much in common with communicating free software values? I read the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual (pdf) which has been doing the rounds of management and security blogs recently, and [...]

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 [...]