Tweet Canonical recently announced that it open sourced Launchpad, its web-based project management and collaboration platform. This news came out while we were conducting an evaluation of Open Source collaboration platforms for a client. The client’s intent is to host Continue reading
Tweet I’ve yesterday had a conversation with the CEO of an Open Source company who sounded rather frustrated when I discussed the importance of nurturing Open Source communities. He said: People seem to think they have a right to free Continue reading
Tweet Rome is a great city and it will host a bunch of great people (including me ) at November 12-13. This is when the second IKS Project workshop will take place. The goal of this workshop is to start Continue reading
Tweet Matt Aslett has made his stance on a discussion that started on Twitter about Open Source vendors giving away control to their community with the goal of better monetization. I concur with Savio Rodriguez’s doubts, but I believe that Continue reading
Tweet I am particularly proud to welcome Alexander Kempkens on board of the Initmarketing team. Starting in 2004 as a developer for the Mambo project he co-founded the Joomla CMS in 2005. Ever since he is working for the Joomla Continue reading
Tweet Matt Asay urges Open Source software vendors to rethink their marketing stance: Open-source advocates for years have waved the banners of “freedom” and “no vendor lock-in” to sell the value of open source. It hasn’t worked. Chief information officers Continue reading