A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at an Open Source event for professionals. A senior developer asked me a question that got my attention. It was something like... So do you recommend to consider the business model when choosing a particular piece of Open Source software, beyond the license? My answered was … Continue reading Business model as a variable to consider when choosing Open Source software.
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Automotive, what an opportunity for KDE!
During the last year I've focused a significant part of my effort on driving the GENIVI Development Platform, together with some Codethink colleagues and other GENIVI professionals and community members. What is GENIVI Development Platform? GENIVI Development Platform (GDP) is a project and an outcome. As a project, it can be defined as the delivery … Continue reading Automotive, what an opportunity for KDE!
Moving from a traditional product/release focused delivery model to a rolling model
The past few weeks the GDP delivery team together with some key contributors, has been working on a not very visible but still important change. The GDP project has put the basis to turn GDP release based delivery model to a "rolling" one. My colleagues will provide in a coming post the technical details behind … Continue reading Moving from a traditional product/release focused delivery model to a rolling model
Embrace Open Source culture: the 5 common transformations.
Article originally published at Linkedin on May 15th 2016. This is a story of what I have lived or witnessed a few times so far. A story of an organization that used to consume, develop and ship proprietary software for many years. At some point in time, management took the decision of using Open Source. … Continue reading Embrace Open Source culture: the 5 common transformations.
Testing then quality. Really?
Introduction Nowadays the topic automated testing is becoming mainstream. Organizations and projects are investing significant effort in creating tests, using tools to automate them and plug them in their delivery chain. Combined with continuous integration tools, automate testing increases the usefulness significantly. I obviously find this trend unavoidable. Sooner or later every software organization will … Continue reading Testing then quality. Really?
Say Hi! to the new GENIVI Development Platform
On Wednesday February 17th, the GENIVI Alliance released a QEMU image of the GENIVI Demo Platform ivi9 Beta version, together with everything needed (instructions, source code, recepies, etc.) to build GDP-ivi9 with Yocto. A few weeks later, on March 8th, the first release candidate was published.Finally, last April 19th GDP-ivi9 was published targeting QEMU, Renesas Porter … Continue reading Say Hi! to the new GENIVI Development Platform
Virtue of Necessity. Canary, sublime your company.
The past July 16th I participated in the Tenerife LAN Party, in its section Tenerife Innova, invited by the Free Software Office of La Laguna University, included in the track titled (free translation from Spanish) Open Source from the Canary Islands, stories told in First Person.This Free Software Office is well known in Spain for … Continue reading Virtue of Necessity. Canary, sublime your company.
Consumir Software Libre es bueno. Producirlo es mucho mejor.
Las elecciones locales y autonómicas en España han vuelto a poner de moda el Software Libre debido a su inclusión como línea estratégica por parte de algunos partidos políticos.Dejando a un lado el error que, a mi entender, significa politizar el Software Libre, ignorando pasados fracasos, me gustaría centrarme en otro riesgo que percibo, mucho … Continue reading Consumir Software Libre es bueno. Producirlo es mucho mejor.
openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release that was designed with a clear goal, target and metric. It was developed following a clear picture of where to go. Design it was a painful but unavoidable process that challenged an assumption established in many people mindset back in 2012. Latest/greatest and stability were incompatible. Hence, Factory, the … Continue reading openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
Bitacora: impact mapping
Introduction This is the fourth of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the previous ones to get full context: The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environment. Bitacora: environment definition. Bitacora: personas Why Impact Mapping? The steps taken so far are standard for me since long time ago. At this point though, … Continue reading Bitacora: impact mapping
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