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.
Category: free software
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
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (II)
Please read the previous post about this topic to have a better idea of what I'm trying to explain here. When thinking about how to create a local node in a certain area where all the knowledge from GFSC can be used to improve local economy and social rights I came to the conclusion that … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (II)
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities
Global Free Software Communities (GFSC from now on) are a proof that Silicon Valley model is an industrial innovation and business model from past century. GFSC are building, not just great products, but creating new engineering procedures and tools, new ways of governance models, supporting and promoting new legal improvements in some areas, creating its … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities
Libre Software Communities and Universities: talk at La Laguna University
On September 19th I planned to give a talk in La Laguna College, Tenerife, Canary Islands. The idea was to promote involvement in Free Software Community projects, like KDE, among students and teachers.Due to a problem on my trip to Tenerife from La Palma (my mom's car decided to stay in La Palma instead of … Continue reading Libre Software Communities and Universities: talk at La Laguna University
Some previous ideas about building new ecosystems around free software projects (IV)
After the previous three articles about very basic previous ideas to take in consideration before designing an engagement program for organizations, we need to think about what are going to be the concepts to base our program on.To have a better chance to succeed, we have to build our program on our strengths and not … Continue reading Some previous ideas about building new ecosystems around free software projects (IV)
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