Category Archives: Open Source
Lightning Talk at Business 3.0
On Wednesday, October 6, I was part of a lineup of lightning talk speakers at Business 3.0: How the Future of Technology Will Change Business, an event organized by the Ivey Alumni Association. These are my slides.
Filed under Open Source, TikiWiki, Value Co-creation
The First StatusCamp, in Montreal
Yesterday, I attended the first ever StatusCamp held in Montreal, and came away being very impressed with what I saw. How often does one get to attend an public unconference organized by a venture funded startup? Present in full force … Continue reading
Filed under Microblogging, Open Source, Status.Net
Reflections on Digital Media Camp
It has been a long but very fulfilling day unconferencing Open Space style at Digital Media Camp Toronto. The key headlines: There is a nation-wide effort under the umbrella of Canada 3.0 and Canadian Digital Media Network that all stakeholders … Continue reading
Filed under Creative Commons, Digital Media, Open Content, Open Source
Do Open Source and Venture Capital Mix?
The short answer is in fact a question: “Why not?” Or more pertinently, we should be asking why we are asking this question at all. For starters, it is not quite fair to group all venture capitalists together, nor does … Continue reading
Filed under Disruption, Economics, Open Source, Venture Capital
I am so looking forward to the Open Video Conference
Something is changing in the video world, slowly but surely. And who knows, it may suddenly accelerate and take us all by surprise. In about a week from now, visionaries as well as those hard at work at making it … Continue reading
Filed under Open Content, Open Source, Video
Video: How to succeed or fail at Google Summer of Code
A video of the panel discussion of Google Summer of Code mentors (in which I participated) held at the University of Toronto on March 31 is now available for public viewing here at the FOSSLC website. Six of us got … Continue reading
Filed under Open Source
What does it mean to be an open source business?
More and more companies like Citadel Rock are embracing open source where community-based innovation is key to their very existence. Through open source, open innovation is occurring not just between firms and their partners and customers but amongst loosely connected … Continue reading
Filed under Open Source
Vertical solutions based on TikiWiki – An opportunity for open source entrepreneurs and consultants
The June 2008 report on “Collaboration and Social Media” by the Gilbane Group suggested that “the future of social media focuses on delivering vertical solutions complete with rich domain expertise.” This is a view that I have found to repeatedly … Continue reading
Filed under Open Source, TikiWiki, Wiki, Wikis
Firefox’s revolutionary community approach to customer support
As the launch of Firefox 3 draws close, it is time to reflect on how revolutionary open source has been and how it still has so much to grow into. Being part of the Firefox support team has provided a … Continue reading
Filed under Customer Support, Firefox, Mozilla, Open Source, TikiWiki, Translation, Value Co-creation, Wiki, Wikis
Speed geeking my latest open source passion (Kaltura) at Penguin Day
At Penguin Day New Orleans, in response to request for speed geeking volunteers, I decided to show my latest open source passion – Kaltura. Kaltura is the world’s first open source collaborative video platform. This is quite awesome stuff. Think … Continue reading
