The Apache Software Foundation (@TheASF) is Missing Out 1/4

tl;dr: The ASF is not serving the needs of companies from outside the software industry well. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the original gold standard of open source foundations. Yet its project and governance model takes a one-size-fits-all approach that is holding beginners to such high standards that they may never get started with …

Should You Learn to Code?

The U.S. president Barack Obama wants to learn programming and so does former New York City major Michael Bloomberg. Germany’s chancelor Angela Merkel does not, but reports tell us that her cell phone connection was spied on by the U.S.A. As long as it doesn’t turn out to specifically have been Barrack Obama’s code which …

Call for Participation: WikiSym + OpenSym 2013, the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China Registration >> Program Overview | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Industry Tutorials Conference Program The conference program is led by three renowned keynote speakers: Phil Bourne, …

Patterns of Effective Tweeting and Retweeting

These are patterns and practices of getting the most out of your 140 characters on Twitter. dirkriehle: Examples are in-lined using blockquote like this; the author is named first Table of Contents General Principles Informational Messages Directed Conversations Social Filtering Global Communication