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Can Open Source Scratch an Itch Before It Happens?

by anandeep on February 05, 2007

I am an avid reader of Joel On Software – I find his insights great and very revealing. I was reading a recent blog post by Joel entitled “The Big Picture”  in which he has this to say about open source: “Open source doesn’t quite work like that. It’s really good at implementing copycat features, because there’s a spec to work from: the implementation you’re copying. It’s really good at Itch Scratching... more

• Monday, February 05, 2007
• in: Community
• anandeep

Madison Digital Image Database: Art History Evolves Through Open Source

by MichaelF on September 27, 2006

To continue the series of interesting people we met at OSCON Anandeep spends some time with Andreas Knab Computer Systems Engineer at the School for Instructional Technology at James Madison University. Andreas works on an Open Sourced .NET project at the University called: Madison Digital Image Database...... more

• Wednesday, September 27, 2006
• in: Media
• MichaelF

Thoughts from OSCON: Development Practices

by MichaelF on August 14, 2006

I recently attended OSCON 2006, and had a lot of fun being there. Microsoft’s presence in the Open Source World is still a novelty (to say the least), so I always got a reaction out of people at the conference when they saw my badge! ... more

• Monday, August 14, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF