Concerns about SOPA
Joining in the blackout; however, I’ll defer to more articulate bloggers on this topic.
View ArticleOpenStack vs CloudStack? It’s about open innovation.
Yesterday, I got a short drive in a “Kick-Ass” Fisker Karma. As someone who converted a car to electric, it was a great treat to see the amazing quality, polish and sophistication of the Karma....
View ArticleSeven Cloud Success Criteria to consider before you pick a platform
From my desk at Dell, I have a unique perspective. In addition to a constant stream of deep customer interactions about our many cloud solutions (even going back pre-OpenStack to Joyent &...
View ArticleOur Vision for Crowbar – taking steps towards closed loop operations
When Greg Althaus and I first proposed the project that would become Dell’s Crowbar, we had already learned first-hand that there was a significant gap in both the technologies and the processes for...
View ArticleWhat foo is “contribution” to open source? Mik Kersten & Tasktop @ SXSW
How do we really know who influences most in a software project? We can easily track code commits, but there are more bits to the project than the commits. I had the good fortune to attend Mik...
View Article“Stack Shop” cover of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop
Sometimes a meme glitters too strongly for me to resist getting pulled in… that happened to great effect that just before the OpenStack Havana summit. When my code-addled mind kept swapping “poppin’...
View ArticleAs OpenStack enters rapids with Grizzly, watch for strong currents, hidden...
Play Boating From Wikipedia I enjoy kayaking white water rapids – they are exhilarating and demanding. The water accelerates around obstacles and shows its power. You cannot simply ride the current;...
View ArticleFrom orphans to open source, data matters
My wife’s day job helps Indian orphans through the Miracle Foundation here in Austin. On the surface, our jobs are very different; however, there is lately more and more intersection in both form and...
View Article7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at DevOpsDays Austin and continue to be impressed with the enthusiasm and collaborative nature of the DOD events. We also managed to have a very robust and engaged...
View ArticleOpenStack leaders learning by humility, doing and being good partners
With the next OpenStack Board meeting on Thursday (5/30/13 agenda) and Mark McLoughlin’s notes crossing my desk, I was reminded of still open discussion topics around OpenStack leadership. Reminder:...
View Articlemy lean & open source reading list – recommendations welcome!
I think it’s worth pulling together a list of essential books that I think should be required reading for people on Lean & open source teams (like mine): Basis for the team values that we...
View ArticleKicking off discussion about OpenStack Core
I’ve been leading an effort with Alan Clark to define “what is OpenStack core” for the Foundation Board. Now that I am sitting here at OSCON and celebrating OpenStack’s third birthday, I think it’s a...
View ArticleDoing is Doing – my 10 open source principles
Open source projects’ greatest asset is their culture and FOSS practitioners need to deliberately build and expand it. To me, culture is not soft or vague. Culture is something specific and actionable...
View ArticleMayflies and Dinosaurs (extending Puppies and Cattle)
Josh McKenty and I were discussing the common misconception of the “Puppies and Cattle” analogy. His position is not anti-puppy! He believes puppies are sometimes unavoidable and should be isolated...
View ArticleWhy I’m learning open source best practice from Middle School Students
Engineering in open source projects is a different skillset than most of us have ever been trained for; happily, there is a rising cohort of engineers and scientists who have been learning to work in...
View ArticleSuccess Factors of Operating Open Source Infrastructure [Series Intro]
Building a best practices platform is essential to helping companies share operations knowledge. In the fast-moving world of open source software, sharing documentation about what to do is not...
View ArticleUnderstanding OpenStack Designated Code Sections – Three critical questions
A collaboration with Michael Still (TC Member from Rackspace) & Joshua McKenty and Cross posted by Rackspace. After nearly a year of discussion, the OpenStack board launched the DefCore process...
View Article7 Open Source lessons from your English Composition class
We often act as if coding, and especially open source coding, is a unique activity and that’s hubris. Most human activities follow common social patterns that should inform how we organize open...
View ArticleCloud Culture: New IT leaders are transforming the way we create and purchase...
Subtitle: Why L33Ts don’t buy from N00Bs Brad Szollose and I want to engage you in a discussion about how culture shapes technology [cross post link]. We connected over Brad’s best-selling book,...
View ArticleCloud Culture Series TL;DR? Generation Cloud Cheat sheet [Collaborative...
SUBTITLE: Your series is TOO LONG, I DID NOT READ It! This post is #2 in an collaborative eight part series by Brad Szollose and I about how culture shapes technology. Your attention is valuable to us!...
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