http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/ en-us mitch@osafoundation.org 2006-01-16T18:21:44-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 This blog is closed. I'm leaving it up for historical purposes only.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000967.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2006-01-16T18:21:44-08:00 We've opened a new blog for all things OSAF. Many OSAF staff will be posting there. It's intended to be a good place to keep up with project developments without having to make a huge investment of time and effort. I'll be posting there from now on.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000929.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-06-15T14:55:23-08:00 I gave a demo of Chandler at the Wall St. Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference last Monday. It was billed as the first public demonstration of the program, which is a bit ironic for an open source project which can be downloaded off the website at any time.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000923.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-05-29T14:03:40-08:00 Tim O'Reilly has given a couple of good talks lately about design patterns for innovation. Here is a summary of his Etech talk, and here (5 MB PDF) are the slides from his presentation at the Eclipse conference.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000903.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-04-15T08:39:45-08:00 We've released Chandler 0.5. It focuses on building out some of the core calendaring functionality for supporting basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks. Feel free to play with it, but PEASE NOTE IT'S NOT READY FOR REGULAR USE YET. NOT READY YET. NOT. (Am I afraid of this point... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000894.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-31T08:52:51-08:00 I've been playing with the pre-release builds of Chandler 0.5, due out next week. As an end-user, you definitely don't want to try to use this version yourself (thank you for your continuing patience), but if you want to see how a real product emerges step-by-step, you might find... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000890.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-23T12:59:08-08:00 EDUCAUSE Review has published an article by me: "How is Open Source Special". Thanks to Pieter Hartsook for all the help.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000888.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-22T08:50:03-08:00 Networks of amateurs (in astronomy, publishing) are displacing the professionals -- Leabeater, quoted by Rael Dornfest Too much important knowledge is locked up on paper where it's not searchable and hard to get to. -- Jeff Bezos, also by Rael. Pay attention to design patterns for innovation -- Tim... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000881.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-15T15:08:09-08:00 I'm at the airport on my way to San Diego. Should be a good chance to catch up face-to-face with lots of folks. Report to follow.... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000879.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-14T17:16:11-08:00 Andrew from Blogging on the Free Web asks whether I discussed taking Groove open source with Ray Ozzie prior to the Microsoft acquisition. Unfortunately, one of the constraints of working in the proprietary world is the loss of liberty to be open about the details of business transactions (at... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000878.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-11T15:13:51-08:00 Microsoft acquired Groove Networks yesterday and Ray Ozzie was named CTO. The press is focusing on this as about Ray joining Microsoft, which underplays the potential importance of Groove's technology. Microsoft has been a substantial investor in Groove for years and Bill Gates' huge respect for Ray is well... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000877.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-11T06:55:21-08:00 ZDNET Australia This is frightening. By tracking micro-variations in computer clock speed it's possible to uniquely identify a PC connected to the net, regardless of firewalls, anonymizers, etc. So far, a Ph.D. thesis, but practical implementation can't be far off. Has the NSA had this for a long time?... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000872.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-04T13:01:26-08:00 Ted Leung has posted an announcement about OSAF's upcoming activities at PyCon. OSAF will be running a Chandler sprint at PyCon in about three weeks. The focus of the sprint is going to be writing parcels for Chandler. Chandler's end user functionality is built using parcels, so the parcels... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000871.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-03-03T16:27:47-08:00 Quite a few folks, myself included, have signed a letter opposing a patent policy being adopted by OASIS, a major industry consortium that produces e-business and Web services standards, that threatens to undermine the development and licensing model for open source software. Discussions are ensuing with the hope of... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000869.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-02-28T00:00:10-08:00 Jef Raskin, who named and created Apple's Macintosh project, passed away yesterday. He was an original thinker whose designs were never completely realized and an ardent, original, often contrarian advocate for radically re-thinking and improving information appliances for regular folks. I met Jef in 1980 while I was working at... http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000868.html mitch@osafoundation.org 2005-02-27T17:55:44-08:00