The Register: Open source a needed outlet for programming pros

Open source hackers are very likely to be programmers with a decade of professional experience employed by a commercial software company, and very unlikely to be the stock high school math-club geeks of popular press reports, a survey of SourceForge members conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates.

PS it looks unlikely that I will manage to attend the Departmental Seminar | Robert Chassell | Free Software: Access and Empowerment today (Thursday). Keeping my fingers crossed that my schedule allows me to work it in but I'm not confident.

OSDN: Open Source Development Network | The Boston Consulting Group/OSDN Hacker Survey

Who are the hackers that create all this great free software? How much time do they spend? Why do they do it? Where are they from? Do they think its sustainable?

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002

The 6th Institutional Web Management Workshop will take place at the University of Strathclyde on 18-20th June 2002.

As participants at previous events will be aware this workshop is aimed at those involved in management of institutional Web management services. The workshop aims to address a broad range of topics, including strategic, managerial, resourcing and technical issues.

A key feature of the workshop is the importance placed on participative and interactive sessions, including hands-on sessions, group discussions, etc.

We are now issuing a call for speakers and workshop facilitators.

I was co-opted onto the Programme Committee yesterday. In his 'welcome' e-mail to the rest of the committee Brian Kelly (chair of the Programme Committee) introduced me as:

"Duncan will provide additional technical expertise and interest to the programme committee together with links with the Scottish and Computer Science sectors.

Duncan also has an interest in blogger technologies. As we've talked about previously it would be useful to make use of new Web technologies to support the workshop, not only to make use of the functionality which can be provided, but also as a learning process for ourselves and workshop delegates so that we can gain experience in new tools."

I am delighted to be associated with this workshop and thoroughly enjoyed the 2000 Institutional Web Management Workshop in Bath. One of the first things I'll be doing is to set up a Free-Conversant site to introduce the rest of the committee to this great technology. Looking foward to renewing contact with friends made at the Bath event.

O'Reilly Network: The new iMac may be the Ideal platform for XP [February 06, 2002]

Those unfamiliar with Extreme Programming may wonder what all of this has to do with XP. First, let's get one thing straight -- long before Microsoft decided to co-opt XP to stand for their operating system, Extreme Programming has been using XP as the short hand for their methodology. Ron Jeffries holds the rights on the XP logo that predates the MS release. I was teaching a seminar on XP at a local University when MS made the announcement of their choice of name. So if a Windows user types XP into a search engine and comes across a headline that leads them to believe their beloved OS runs on a Mac ...

So there!!

Manila Envelope - some more thoughts from Jarrett House North : Blogger API in ME 1.1.

David C-T is about to find out how long ago it is since I last visited Serious Instructional Technology (SiT): A Daily Log of Instructional Technology News and Ideas as it's only now I've noticed the new look. Nice and clean David.

PS Is it just me that finds it strange that there's so many Davids blogging ;-)?

PPS That give me an idea: blogrolling wth a different daily theme. For example, "today I will blogroll sites that are written by people called David." ;-) Tomorrow, cat-lovers. The day after Mac OS X users.... You get the idea ;-)...

One of the nice things about RSS aggregation is the impulse linking that spins out from it. Since installing Radio I've visited more new sites than I would normally have done. In fact, it'd make an interesting study to 'discover' when and where people first started blogging on the basis of their circle of blog-friends. Personally, I still most often visit the sites that started out in the early day of EditThisPage. Blogging can be rather incestuous in that respect.

SOAPBuilders Interoperability Lab

Dan Gillmor - PC unreliability rears its ugly head again

I decided that my opinion about David B pushing back at Dave W was just cluttering up my home page and because it's been a while since I used the Summary feature of this weblog. The comments link above will still take you to the original text.

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