Back in July 2017 I wrote a blog post, published by Codethink, explaining why is a good business to support community driven FOSS events. This post is related to that one. I will be attending to Akademy 2018. It will take place in Vienna, Austria, from August 11th to 17th. I will be there representing … Continue reading Codethink is sponsoring Akademy 2018 and I am attending.
Category: free software
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
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.
Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
IntroductionWhen the Agile Manifesto became popular and based on them, agile methodologies like Scrum, XP or Kanban, upstream development was in its early stages as collaboration ecosystems of companies.Only a few for profit organizations embraced developing upstream back then. Most of them were small and heavily influenced by FLOSS engineers vision. Free software communities were … Continue reading Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
Two risks when working as employee in Free Software communities
I would like to point two risks that I have experienced myself and as manager throughout the last few years working in open environments (Free Software Communities) or projects involving interactions with them. 1.- In any community, there is so much to do...., so many interesting and innovative areas, so many disruptive ideas that can … Continue reading Two risks when working as employee in Free Software communities
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VI): organization
Please consider reading previous post of the Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities series:Introduction.Root article (you can access the rest of the posts from this one).This project must have a legal entity that support the activity it will generate. That legal entity must be as flexible as possible. In Spain, for example, it would … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VI): organization
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (V): services
Since this is the fifth post of the Building Innovation Nodes Through Free Software Communities, I strongly recommend you to read the previous four (I, II, III and IV) This post will explain my ideas about what are the basic services that the initiative should provide so Local Free Software Communities (LFSC) and local player … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (V): services
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (IV): localization/facilities
Please keep in mind that this is the fourth of a series of post. Please read previous ones ( I, II and III) before the following. The venue is very important in order to be successful. I suggest to launch the project in a city with the following characteristics:Big not not too much, so activities … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (IV): localization/facilities
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (III): participants
This is the third post of this serie. Please read the first two (I and II) before reading this one. A.- ParticipantsAs mentioned in the previous post, the participants in a project like the one we are describing can be organized in three different groups:1.- SourceThere are the organizations which represent the innovation source, that … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (III): participants
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