Oct 26, 2009 6:18pm 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 source and how she gets to Be Excited for a living leading the Fedora Marketing team. Q: Who are you? A: My name is Mel Chua; I go by mchua online. I'm a hacker – started with hardware, then moved to software, then... more »
2010: The Year of WIOS at Events!Oct 26, 2009 2:54pm 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 event... more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: Noirin Shirley, Vice President of the Apache Software FoundationOct 20, 2009 2:47pm 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 sp... more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: Cheryl McKinnon, CMO of NuxeoOct 19, 2009 5:04pm 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 co... more »
Color of the CommentsOct 14, 2009 5:54pm 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 again the pa... more »
Juliet Kemp on Green ComputingOct 12, 2009 4:26pm GMT
Check out Juliet Kemp's cool article on LinuxPlanet about Green Computing. Kemp compares power usage and lifespan between desktops and laptops, adding, "But power usage isn't all there is: there are those production and disposal costs, for which lifespan really does matter." Kemp also talks about the push for more efficient code. more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: KDE Project's A. L. SpehrOct 06, 2009 2:51pm GMT
Q: Who are you? A: A. L. Spehr, "Alex" – blauzahl online. I co-founded KDE's BugSquad, a bug triage group. I've done all sorts of other little things for the KDE Project as well. Through people I met working with the KHTML (browser rendering) people, I was hired into my current job at froglogic GmBH. Q: What do you currently do in open source? What do you love about it? A: L... more »
