AIS Webinar: Peer Production, Collective Intelligence, and Open Communities

Thanks to Kevin Crowston and Joe Feller who contributed their time and energy on a recent Association for Information Systems Webinar on Open Systems:

http://stme.in/YGA70Zqud

Also, thanks to AIS for permissively licensing the webinar!

Julie and Ken Kendall at UNO

Thanks to Julie and Ken Kendall for taking time to come and visit UNO this last week. It was great to see them and discuss a multitude of things centered around the grant. It was great to see progress on the many papers that we have in the hopper!

Bradley Kuhn at UNO

Thanks to Bradley Kuhn for taking some time out of his busy schedule to meet with students and faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It was a very enlightening discussion for sure! Catch one of his presentations here:

http://vimeo.com/60703124

CIST 9080

Thanks to the class for the opportunity to talk about Open Source. Here is a link to the slide deck that I used in class. If you have any questions, let me know as I’m very happy to discuss this more.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/86vnwy7q15rsqab/Organizational%20Participation.Linux.pptx

Matt

SPDX Tooling

Thanks to Kate Stewart from Linaro (http://www.linaro.org/) who took some time to talk with us on the continued tooling around SPDX.

Hoping to be done with the SPDX/FOSSology integration very, very soon.

https://fossology-demo.ist.unomaha.edu/

Open Source and Risk Management

https://vimeo.com/56259806

I had a great chance to present on Open Source and Risk Management at ICIS 2012 in Orlando, Florida. Thanks for the great audience.

Site Visit to HP

I had a great time going out to HP this last week with Liang Cao (UNO) and Brett Young (Georgia Gwinnett). We met with members of the open source program office to discuss many things. We particularly focused on FOSSology + SPDX.

You can find our presentation here.

Texas Instruments at UNO

We had a great visit earlier this month from Jack Manbeck and Eric Thomas from Texas Instruments. They spent time meeting with faculty, giving a talk, and generally discussing things open source. We all learned a lot of what goes on at TI with respect to OS. Thanks Jack and Eric.

The slides that they used are available here.

Union Pacific

Thanks to everyone at Union Pacific. It was great to have an opportunity to to discuss open source issues. Here is a link to the video presentations:

Part1:

Part2:

Localization

I just had a very interesting conversation on localization and internationalization with respect to open source. I find it hard to believe that I just now came across this idea after two years of digging around open source. The general premise is the localization of UI and user docs to local dialects. It seems so obvious. I’m excited to talk about these issues with students.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/09/14/how-to-select-your-localization-team