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Come work with me – developer edition!
It has been a long time since I was able to say to developer friends “come work with me” in anything but the most abstract “come work under the same roof” kind of sense. But today I can say to...
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What tools are changing our world next?
Quick brain dump after a bike ride home: free software took a huge leap in the late 90s and early 00s in large part because of non-ideological advantages that the rest of the world is now competing...
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Wikimania 2015 – random thoughts and observations
Random thoughts from Wikimania, 2015 edition (2013, 2014): “Wikimania 2015 Reception at Laboratorio Arte Alameda – 02” by Jarek Tuszynski, under CC BY 4.0 Dancing: After five Wikimedia events (not...
View ArticleReinventing FOSS user experiences: a bibliography
There is a small genre of posts around re-inventing the interfaces of popular open source software; I thought I’d collect some of them for future reference: Recent: Drupal WordPress: ma.tt, wp.com...
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Copyleft and data: databases as poor subject
tl;dr: Open licensing works when you strike a healthy balance between obligations and reuse. Data, and how it is used, is different from software in ways that change that balance, making reasonable...
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Copyleft, attribution, and data: other considerations
Public licenses for databases don’t work well. Before going into solutions to that problem, though, I wanted to talk briefly about some things that are important to consider when thinking about...
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Public licenses and data: So what to do instead?
I just explained why open and copyleft licensing, which work fairly well in the software context, might not be legally workable, or practically a good idea, around data. So what to do instead? tl;dr:...
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Governing Values-Centered Tech Non-Profits; or, The Route Not Taken by FSF
A few weeks ago, I interviewed my friend Katherine Maher on leading a non-profit under some of the biggest challenges an org can face: accusations of assault by leadership, and a growing gap between...
View ArticleWriting elsewhere; the pain of moving platforms
I’ve been doing a lot of writing elsewhere of late. Some links: I’ve written a fair amount in the past year for the Tidelift blog, most recently on the EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act and what it might mean...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Upstream podcast
Open is 1️⃣ all over and 2️⃣ really interesting and yet 3️⃣ there’s not enough media that takes it seriously as a cultural phenomenon, growing out of software but now going well beyond that. And so,...
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