Probably the most relevant non technical action that a community executes is events. Most mature communities organize one or several big events in different part of the world with different goals, but one of them is common in every single case: engagement needs face to face relations. We are humans....after all.In order to organize these … Continue reading Sponsored vs supported
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Summary about what the openSUSE Team @ SUSE is doing
openSUSE 13.1 is about to be Released (Nov. 19th) and I would like to share what the team I am part of is doing.I joined SUSE in June 2012, almost 18 months ago. I haven't written much about anything during this time. And it haven't been because I hadn't time, but because I haven't have … Continue reading Summary about what the openSUSE Team @ SUSE is doing
A champion instead of a leader.
I am one of those who actively supported Canonical in the past. Mark Shuttleworth succeed in linking his success to our success in Ubuntu's early years. I believe that customers/users are smart. Ubuntu became, still is, the number one distribution for good reasons. In his journey toward success, Mark played hard, too hard sometimes. … Continue reading A champion instead of a leader.
Are you a senior KDE developer? Join openSUSE Team at SUSE
openSUSE Team at SUSE is looking for a senior KDE developer that is willing to join the company to work on openSUSE distribution and customer products where KDE technologies are present.As those of you who are closer to KDE and/or openSUSE know, Will Stephenson has been leading this area the last few years. He is … Continue reading Are you a senior KDE developer? Join openSUSE Team at SUSE
2012 for KDE: the financial perspective
2012, a great year for KDE2012 has been an important year for KDE from many perspectives. KDE e.V. turned 15 years old, Nokia finally quit Qt and a new ecosystem lead by Digia is laying on KDE to get mature. We have published our Manifesto, that is the result of long internal and very interesting … Continue reading 2012 for KDE: the financial perspective
Last months
Last four months have gone fast, really fast:Akademy-es in ZaragozaFlying to Berling to work on KDE eV economic report and LinuxTagMoving to NuremebrgBegin to work as openSUSE Team Lead at SUSEPrepare my Akademy keynote and my talk about KDE ConnectDevelop and present the economic report during KDE eV AGM plus Board elections Complete the administrative … Continue reading Last months
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
KDE Connect: becoming an official KDE eV program for organizations
During the last 3-4 weeks we have been testing if KDE Connect attract attention from different organizations. To do so, we have done the following:Make a presentation during Akademy-es in SaragossaTalk to different organization representatives and KDE people at LinuxTag about the project to get feedback. Both experience has been positive so we think we … Continue reading KDE Connect: becoming an official KDE eV program for organizations
Thank you for your monetary contribution to KDE
This post is dedicated to everyone of you who contributes (or did) to KDE with donations, sponsorship or participating in any of our corporate programs we are currently running.KDE publish a quarterly report where we include the major activities we do thanks to the money we receive from you. We also publish some numbers so … Continue reading Thank you for your monetary contribution to KDE
KDE as incubator and as an umbrella for other projects: KDE project definition
In KDE we discussed some years ago about who we were and should we define our selves as a project. In simple words, we came up defining KDE as the community the develop the software.This could be seem as trivial, but in fact, it has a big impact in many areas beside marketing. We put … Continue reading KDE as incubator and as an umbrella for other projects: KDE project definition
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