I was at OSBC last week, manning the SpikeSource booth and was able to slip into Nick Carr's keynote. Nick Carr basically compared IT today to the state of electicity in factories in the early 1900s. During that time factories had their internal power plants that weren't added value to …

There was another portion of the SDForum meeting titled "Building your startup using Python". It was moderated by the creator of BitTorrent, Braham Cohen and had Steve Kirscho (CEO Propel), Francis Kelly (Founder Loomia), and Peter Yared (CEO ActiveGrid) on the panel. It was interesting to have an assortment of …

As I promised, here is the writeup of Greg Stein's keynote last week at the SDForum Python Meeting. All text in italics are my thoughts. This is a repeat of the talk he gave last year at PyCON. He began with his introduction to python and how he began to …

My buddy Matt has an interesting post on the problems with OpenOffice. I'm sad that Matt misses what I feel is the most important contribution of Open Office.

I would argue that Open Office along with Firefox are two of the most important and successful Open Source applications for the …

Just saw this post about xGL development closing up. My thought from that post was Novell thinks in house development is better or they don't want to collaborate with others (who are interested in xgl, ie users/developers from redhat, debian, gentoo, ubuntu, ...).

So I thought I'd put my box …

This is the Bangalore Palace. Site of FOSS 2005.

This morning I had a few hours to myself in a jetlagged induced stupor. It was refreshing to sit and watch the sunrise, yet disappointing to realize I had driven to work only to be locked out for an hour. So I had some time to ponder.

Being the visual …

UPDATE (Jan 2007)Duncan McGrego has taken these scripts and run with them. There is an updated version on the cheeseshop! Thanks Duncan. (Behold open source!) end update

While attending FOSS.IN, one of the sessions was a website security session. I only caught the tail end, but it felt …

One of the nice things about conferences is the oppurtunity to meet new people. It was nice to be able to mingle with Alan Cox for a little bit while fighting for Pizza at FOSS. Talking with Seemant was cool too. Props to those community volunteers such as Seemant who …

Today started off with a bang with a keynote Andrew Cowie. He did an excellent job speaking and wasn't afraid to ruffle feathers. One of the best parts was his proposal to change Linux to "Open Office/Mozilla/Apache/Perl/Gnu/Linux" (talking RMS's GNU/Linux fixation one step further …