Evento (meetup): La Palma Tech Tagoror

La Palma Tech Tagoror es un evento de networking organizado por el grupo meetup San Miguel de La Palma Tech Lovers y enfocado en el intercambio de conocimientos sobre tecnología entre dos grupos objetivo: Trabajadores remotos o nómadas digitales presentes en La Palma, Islas Canarias, España. Entusiastas locales, profesionales y organizaciones apasionadas por la tecnología. … Continue reading Evento (meetup): La Palma Tech Tagoror

Improve your software product delivery process performance using metrics (I)

This is the first of a two articles series about the topic. I recommend to read this one first. Click here to open the second one. UPDATE June 2023 - I have also done some talks and workshops on this topic, like you can find in these slide deck. Introduction As many other graduates in … Continue reading Improve your software product delivery process performance using metrics (I)

Berlin as Free Culture innovation pole: an idea

In November 2011 I wrote a project for Saragossa city council to create there an innovation pole of Spanish Free software Communities. Two basic ideas were behind this project:Hosting in Saragossa the legalized communities that are established in Spain, so they could:Share facilities and services for to reduce expensesIncrease the collaboration between themDevelop a continuous … Continue reading Berlin as Free Culture innovation pole: an idea

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

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