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 was the power-packed Status.Net team which included the former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Brian [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Open Source’
December 13, 2009
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 in the Canadian Digital Media landscape should participate in. The goal of this initiative is [...]
December 1, 2009
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 it really make sense doing the same for open source projects. Open source business models [...]
June 12, 2009
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 happen will be meeting in New York City for the Open Video Conference. Open video [...]
April 5, 2009
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 together to share our experiences with U of T students on how to succeed at [...]
January 25, 2009
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 community members who can come and go as and when they please. The wide open [...]
September 14, 2008
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 ring true. This further reinforces my belief that open source collaboration solutions are inherently superior [...]
June 15, 2008
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 brand new perspective that brings the open source way of doing things into a non-software [...]
March 23, 2008
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 of it as a YouTube type system for embedding videos on a webpage with the [...]
