Open Source Delivers

Success and motivation at work and school can sometimes be difficult to come by. But according to the author of Drive, Daniel H. Pink, the tools required to achieve high performance and success are autonomy, mastery and purpose. (Great book, listened to it on the plane.) Pink applies these principles primarily to work life– but [...]

It’s been another week of open source announcements, presentations and ideas. Here are your open source tidbits for the week: “Prefer Open Source? Join the Crowd,” was written by Katherine Noyes on PCWorld about recent survey results illustrating the growing use of OSS in businesses. Rikki Endsley gives seven good reasons to teach children about [...]

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Mark Antony’s funeral oration in Julius Caesar (whoever wrote it) is one of the great speeches in all of literature. It’s designed to twist a crowd against their best interests, to win them to an empire against the republic, by laying a great man’s acts for [...]

Google was all over the news this week with the reveal of the Android 4.0 ICS and their decision to do “a fall sweep” by shutting down a number of their existing products. Here’s some of the media coverage on Google’s news and other open source stories from this week: “Apache vows to develop, protect OpenOffice” [...]

Thanks to the variety of great, free project hosting sites it has become very easy to publish source code and binaries on the web. This is evident in the hundreds of thousands of users adding projects / repositories on wildly popular sites like github, Google Code, SourceForge, CodePlex, and LaunchPad, to name a few.  With [...]

One hallmark of 21st century protest is its technological nature. Iranian protesters blogged about what they were doing and coordinated activities via SMS messaging. Egyptian protesters tweeted. Syrians got out video of crackdowns using cellphones and emails that wound up on YouTube. So when the Occupy Wall Street protests began, it was natural to look [...]

I just returned from the O’Reilly Android Open event held in San Francisco this week. If you like technology, this is an exciting event, and if you’re a technology junkie, there aren’t better “fixes” than this. As I walked into the event I did so knowing that mobile is an innovation-rich environment with limitless potential: [...]

The seasons are changing, the temperature is dropping, and the world of open source continues to turn. Here are your open source news highlights from this past week: Julie Bort’s NetworkWorld article, “Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source ‘inevitable’ for Microsoft, others,” shares the former Microsoft employee’s views on how the cloud will lead to [...]