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		<title>GNOME Census report now available as free download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to see that the GNOME Census presentation I gave yesterday at GUADEC has gotten a lot of attention. And I&#8217;m pleased to announce a change of plan from what I presented yesterday: The report is now available under a Creative Commons license. Why the change of heart? My intention was never to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GNOME Census report available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at GUADEC I presented the results (Slides are now on slideshare) of the GNOME Census, a project we have been working on for a while. For as long as I have been involved in GNOME, press, analysts, potential partners and advisory board members have been asking us: How big is GNOME? How many paid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/07/28/gnome-census-report-available/</link>
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		<title>Open Core is a bad word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Aslett continued his series on Open Core yesterday, and pointed to my post on the subject. He says, and I agree, that we can&#8217;t expect companies to call themselves Open Core as a means of differentiating from Open Source if we use pejorative phrases like &#8220;crippleware&#8221; to refer to Open Core projects. But that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/07/22/open-core-is-a-bad-word/</link>
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		<title>Rotten to the (Open) Core?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from my personal blog Open core, Open core,Â  more Open core&#8230; the debate goes on and on, with Monty the latest to weigh in. When you get down to it this is a fight over branding &#8211; which is why the issue is so important to the OSI folks (who are all about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/07/19/rotten-to-the-open-core/</link>
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		<title>Sabotage and Free Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/06/17/sabotage-and-free-software/</link>
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		<title>GNOME Developer Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to announce the availability of GNOME Developer Training at GUADEC this year. It&#8217;s been brewing for a while, but you can now register for the training sessions on the GUADEC website. Fernando Herrera, Claudio Saavedra, Alberto Garcia and myself will be running the two-day course, covering the basics of a Linux development environment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/06/11/gnome-developer-training/</link>
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		<title>SalomeTMF: Quick analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/30/salometmf-quick-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Open World Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be at the Open World Forum in Paris tomorrow, October 1st, and Friday October 2nd, in the Eurosite Georges V. I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/30/open-world-forum/</link>
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		<title>The value of engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mal Minhas of the LiMo Foundation announced and presented a white paper at OSiM World called &#8220;Mobile Open Source Economic Analysis&#8221; (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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/09/17/the-value-of-engagement/</link>
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		<title>Community governance best practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jono Bacon asked on the Art of Community blog for successful governance stories, and while I&#8217;m happy to comment on the blog, now that I&#8217;ve taken the time to write some down, I thought I might as well share them Governance comes in many shapes &#38; sizes of course. My favourite governance stories are about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2009/02/20/community-governance-best-practices/</link>
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