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In my day job at Red Hat I see daily examples of open source best practices, be it at the architecture, infrastructure, or application level. I see how individuals focused on a specific problem are able to best solve that problem using the vast resources of open source (230 million source lines of code in…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 23rd to 29th, 2008. This Week Alolita Sharma, Andrew C. Oliver and I sent the draft infrastructure RFP to the board for review. Worked with the rest of the OSI team on developing the affiliate/membership/somethingship program. Next Week…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 16th to 22nd, 2008. This Week Alolita, Andrew and I worked on the draft infrastructure requirements for the various online services that the OSI needs and provides, and developed a corresponding RFP. A few instances of lightweight community…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant’s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 9th to 15th, 2008. This Week This was my first week of real activity in 2008 (except for my attendance of the March 2008 OSI face-to-face meeting.)

I wanted to give a quick shout out to our President, who was just listed as one of eWeek’s Top Ten Open-Source Business Influencers. Wish they could’ve gotten a better picture, though…

An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse. Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody…