In recent years, as open source becomes more ubiquitous, I've seen a new breed of participants appearing. They push their code to GitHub like you would wear a very visible good behavior marketing badge. They copy code from multiple open source projects, modify it, but don't contribute back their changes …
Next week, the European free and open source software developers will converge to Brussels for FOSDEM. We took this opportunity to apply for an OpenStack developers gathering in the Virtualization and Cloud devroom.
At 6pm on Saturday (last session of the day), in the Chavanne room, we will have a …
As we pass the middle of the Essex development cycle, questions about the solidity of this release start to pop up. After all, the previous releases were far from stellar, and with more people betting their business on OpenStack we can't really afford another half-baked release.
Common thinking (mostly coming …
The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, or FOSDEM, is an institution that happens every year in Brussels. A busy, free and open event that gets a lot of developers together for two days of presentations and cross-pollination. There are typically the FOSDEM main tracks (a set of …
2011 is almost finished, and what a year it has been. We started it with two core projects and one release behind us. During 2011, we got three releases out of the door, grew from 60 code contributors to about 200, added three new core projects, and met for two …