ROSE Blog: Rikki's Open Source Exchange

Oct 28, 2009 GMT

In this interview, we hear from Juliet Kemp, sys admin extraordinaire and a frequent contributor to Linux Magazine/Linux Pro Magazine. Her articles in our issues include:

Serving up ASP.NET from Apache with Mod_Mono

Linux Software on Mac OSX

Get Started with... more »

Oct 27, 2009 GMT

MindTouch released a list of Most Influential People in Open Source, and despite rereading the list several times, I'm not seeing any women on it.

More than 50 votes from "industry insiders" determined who would make this list of influential people (specifically, men). I'm not sure who the insiders are – were you one of them? If not, who would you name as some of the Most Influential People in Open Source? And would any of... more »

Oct 26, 2009 GMT

Mel Chua made her event-speaking debut at last weekend's Ontario [Gnu] Linux Fest. Congratulations, Mel!

In this interview, Mel explains how she got sucked in to open... more »

Oct 26, 2009 GMT

I spent this past weekend at Ontario [Gnu] Linux Fest, which was my first trip to this event. Ontario [Gnu] Linux Fest also marked my fourth time speaking at an event this year.

As you might know, earlier this year I spoke at SCALE 2009 for the first time, and in each of my talks I share my experience with the hope that other women will be inspired to speak at events, too. Most of the events I attended this year would have been great events for... more »

Oct 20, 2009 GMT

ApacheCon 2009, held November 2-6 in Oakland, California, will also be a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation. In this interview, Noirin Shirley, VP of the ASF, discusses her work as a technical writer at Google and the upcoming ApacheCon event.

Q: Who are you?

A: I'm Noirin Shirley. I work as a Technical Writer in Google's Zurich office, where I get to spend 20 percent of my time working on Open... more »

Oct 19, 2009 GMT

Cheryl McKinnon will be one of the speakers at this week's Ontario Linux Fest. In this interview, Cheryl talks about her new role at the rapidly growing open source ECM company Nuxeo.

Q: Who are you?

A: My name is Cheryl McKinnon. I've spent most of my career in the technology space known as ECM – Enterprise Content Management. It's a pretty broad category that includes software to help companies with their electronic content: document and records management, archiving,... more »

Oct 14, 2009 GMT

As soon as I arrived for the monthly Tweetup last night, I received a DM via Twitter that alerted me to a couple of new beyond-offensive comments left on a recent blog post. You're welcome to read that blog post, but I've turned off the comments for now. Originally I decided not to mention who left the majority of the offensive comments – the same few nasty comments, over and over... more »