Yesterday Matt Mullenweg announced the establishment of the WordPress Foundation. It’s goals, among others, are “to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open…

I love stories of user-driven innovation. Here’s one I just discovered: the Magic Lantern firmware upgrade for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera. Trammel Hudson tells the story of…

This afternoon I heard this story on NPR. It’s not the first time OpenStreetMap was mentioned as an asset in the relief effort. It was also mentioned three days ago…

On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti 15 miles from its capital, Port-au-Prince. On January 14th, the Sahana team, based largely in Sri Lanka, launched its Haiti…

“There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.“ – from the Commencement Address for Oberlin College given by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., June 1965, Oberlin…

Thanks to Greg DeKoenigsberg, I now know about Gource. You should, too. Watch this movie, which speaks for itself: After watching how a few committed souls can build a vibrant,…

Marv Langston served as Department of Defense Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO), where he helped initiate the Global Information Grid, Public Key Infrastructure – Common Access Cards, and led the…

When 2010 was barely one week old, state CIO Teri Takai published ITPL-10-01, which serves to “formally establish the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government as…

Greg Stein (Apache developer and all-around nice guy) made an off-hand comment about open source trademarks in an article(How to Screw Your (Open Source Software) Customers). He was talking about…

The following is a comment I left on a blog posting by John Mark Walker at OStatic. I would be delighted to see Larry Augustin acting as the CEO of…

As families go, the Linux operating system family has become the family among the Top500 supercomputers, running on 89.20% of all systems. Proprietary Unix, which used to the the preferred…

A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community…