Happy to Announce that I’m Joining Index Data
Index Data posted an announcement on their blog about how I will be joining them next month. Confirmed! I'll be working on the open source library serv...
Open Source
Setting the Right Environment: Remote Staff, Service Provider Participants, and Big-Tent Open Source Communities
I was asked recently to prepare a 15 minute presentation on lessons learned working with a remote team hosting open source applications. The text of that pr...
Case Studies on Open Source Adoption in Libraries: Koha, CoralERM, and Kuali OLE
LYRASIS has published three open source software case studies on FOSS4LIB.org as part of its continuation of support and services for libraries and other cu...
Kuali Reboots Itself into a Commercial Entity
Did you feel a great disturbance in the open source force last week? At noon on Friday in a conference call with members of the Kuali community, the Kuali F...
Implemented Open Source in your Library? Get Paid to Write a Case Study
Share your story of implementing an open source system at your library. If selected, you will get paid to develop a case study of your open source system ado...
LYRASIS’ “Reposervice” Setup Pushed to GitHub
Earlier this month published 'reposervice' to GitHub. Reposervice is a "self-contained" Islandora installation source tree that is intended to smooth the LY...
Vote for an ALA2013 Ignite Session on Open Source Communities
I've put in a proposal on the importance of communities in open source software for an "ignite" session at the ALA Annual meeting in Chicago, and I'd appreci...
Helping Libraries Consider Open Source Software
One of the key activities that brought me to LYRASIS many months ago is going to see the light of day in about 10 days at ALA Midwinter -- a set of tools to ...
Governance in Open Source Software Projects
Below is the text of an article I wrote for a LYRASIS member newsletter in which I talk about the nature of governance in open source software projects. I&r...
Seeking consultants to create decision support tools for open source software selection
My employer (LYRASIS) is seeking to engage consultants to create decision support tools in the form of whitepapers, self-guided assessments, and worksheets f...
How Do You Decide To Use Open Source Software and What Software to Use?
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant funding the start-up of LYRASIS Technology Services, LTS is to produce a series of tools that enable libraries to deci...
When Closed Source Companies Contribute to Open Source Communities
I was reading a story last week about the Linux Foundation's third annual report [PDF] of the Linux kernel, and in it was a section that talked about the aff...