February 17, 2010
Alan Atlas at Scrumtisch Berlin # At the last Berlin Scrumtisch, @AlanAtlas gave a presentation on how he introduced Scrum at Amazon (starting as early as back in 2004). Introducing Scrum at Amazon by that time seemed natural due to a few factors:
Amazon was and is always very customer centric. The original methodology of working backwards in time - that is starting with the press release, from there writing the FAQ and manual and finally get to the code - really made people concentrate on the product.
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February 16, 2010
Apache brand name - survey # Sally Khudairi (VP, ASF Marketing & Publicity) asked for distributing the following survey to people who might be interested in contributing their views to a study on how the brand name Apache is perceived. Me personally, I would be especially interested in finding out more on whether there are any differences in perception inside the ASF vs. outside…
We have been working with PhD candidate Roland Schroll over the past two years as he’s been compiling information on the value of the Apache brand.
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February 15, 2010
MLOSS workshop at ICML accepted # The workshop on machine learning open source software has been accpted. Find further details on the workshop homepage.
Submissions are open until April 10th, Samoa time.
February 14, 2010
FOSDEM - video recordings online # As published in the FOSDEM blog the video recordings are available online - at least for the main track and the lightning talks. Happy video watching!
February 14, 2010
FSFE Happy Valentine # Today I got woken up with a friendly hug and roses waiting for me:
I do not really care about presents for sort-of-artificial celebration days like valentines day. However, FSFE had a very nice idea: The proposal was to use valentines day to show your love for free software. The website proposed to e.g. hug a free software developer, to make a gift to a team of free software developers:
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February 12, 2010
Open Community Camp 2010 # The following information just reached my via Marten Vijn. Thought it might be interesting to you:
I am pleased to announce OpenCommunityCamp 2010.
The camp is from 10th to 18th July, in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands.
The website[1] is refreshed and the first speakers are booked.
It is time to register[2] if you plan be there (please do this
quickly). Currently we need to find more people to attend, self-organizing groups
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February 11, 2010
Berlin Buzzwords - June 2010 # As announced at FOSDEM: Early June (currently scheduled for 7th/8th) a conference on the topics scalable search, storage and processing will take place in Kalkscheune/Berlin. The conference is co-organised by newthinking store, Jan Lehnardt, Simon Willnauer, Thilo Fromm, and Isabel Drost.
The focus will be on NoSQL databases like CouchDB, Jackrabbit, MongoDB, HBase. Search tracks will cover topics like Lucene, Solr, katta and others.
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February 11, 2010
Apache Hadoop Get Together - March 2010 - Update # Due to conflicts in the schedule of newthinking store, we had to change the time of the Get Together slightly. We will start one hour earlier than announced.
When: March 10th, 4p.m.
Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte
Looking forward to seeing you there.
February 10, 2010
FOSDEM 2010 - part 3 # Sunday started in Janson with Andrian Bowyer’s talk on RepRap machines, that is devices that can be used as manufacturing devices and are able to replicate themselves. After that I went over to the Mono dev room to listen to Miguel de Icaza on Mono Edge. A great talk on the history of Mono, the way the community interacts with Microsoft, the C# language itself and special features only available in Mono.
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February 9, 2010
FOSDEM 2010 - part 2 # The event itself featured 306 talks - so pretty hard to choose what to watch on two days. This time, not only the main tracks were awesome, but also several dev rooms featured very interesting talks by well known FOSS developers.
Saturday started with a FOSDEM birthday dance done by all attendees. The first keynote speaker Brooks Davis explained his experiences promoting open source methods at a large company.
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