This blogpost was originally published on the Codethink website on Thursday March 9th.On April 4th 2016 a new Linux Foundation initiative called the Civil Infrastructure Platform was announced. CIP aims to share efforts around building a Linux-based commodity platform for industrial grade products that need to be maintained for anything between 25 and 50 years … Continue reading Why Codethink is a founding member of the Civil Infrastructure Platform, a Linux Foundation initiative
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Automotive supply chain and Open Source: a personal view
Software in automotive yesterday The automotive industry has treated software like any other component, as part of the traditional, well structured and highly controlled supply chain. Tier-1's has been providing software to car auto-makers for some years now and both together have done what they have could to prevent consumers or downstream players in the … Continue reading Automotive supply chain and Open Source: a personal view
Codethink is hiring engineers.
Codethink is steadily growing for some time now. I have been working for 18 months in the company and it is about time for me to tell you that this is an outstanding place to work if you:Love Open Source and work upstream.Prefer to work in a startup kind of environment than in a corporate … Continue reading Codethink is hiring engineers.
Business model as a variable to consider when choosing Open Source software.
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.
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.
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