Celebrating Open Source at the Paris Summit – My talk on HashiCorp Nomad

Another exciting event is coming up for the global open source community.  I’m proud to be a part of the upcoming Open Source Summit in Paris which is happening December 10-11, 2019.  Lots of info is available online including registration for tickets and all the logistics on getting to the event.  It’s been exciting with … Read more

Open-ish: Knative Steering Committee Brings Open Foundation Role into Question

It was a surprising email to see from Donna Malayeri, on behalf of Google which you can read here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/knative-dev/YmL2vgMC4rc The core of the story comes from a long-asked question about Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform which allows the running of serverless workloads.  The question is “whether Knative would be donated to a foundation, such as CNCF” to … Read more

Podcast Episode 73 – Open Source, Closed Minds – A Discussion on Open Core and Open Source Monetization with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle) of @RackN

Episode 73 – Open Source, Closed Minds – A Discussion on Open Core and Open Source Monetization with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle) of @RackN PODCAST LINK: http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/ep-73-open-source-closed-minds-a-discussion-on-open-core-and-open-source-monetization-with-rob-hirschfeld-zehicle-of-rackn/ LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE: As more open source projects become commercially driven (rightly so) there is a challenge among open source community folks as to when it is … Read more

Microsoft, GitHub, and the Power of Corporate Support of Open Source

Let me start by saying that I’m a massive advocate, contributor, and supporter of many open source communities, while also working in my role for a technology vendor who provides a commercial product that also supports many open source platforms.  The reason that matters is that I’m not saying this without an understanding of the … Read more