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Jenkins! By a massive margin (214 to 14) the Hudson community has decided to rename itself Jenkins and rehost on independent resources. I just hope Oracle decides to stay with the community and not try to keep a fork going. ODF Plugfest UK As well as the usual ODF testing opportunity, this event promises to [...]
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Last week I broke the news that ForgeRock (where I work) had gained an architect for OpenIDM. Today is the last day of ForgeRock’s first year, and I’m pleased to say we have gained an architect for the open source LDAP directory product we work on, OpenDJ. Matthew Swift comes with great experience, having worked [...]
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I just got home from a week in Brazil, where I gave talks for IBM and for a large ForgeRock customer and also at the remarkable Campus Party. This is the second year I have spoken at Campus Party in Brazil and once again it was an interesting and overwhelming experience. Campus Party started in [...]
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O artigo “Direitos Humanos estão acima dos Direitos do Autor” está agora disponível traduzido para o Português na seção Essays. Muito obrigado a Bruno Souza por doar seu tempo.
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Bookdarts bookmarks I have loved these paper-thin metal page markers ever since I first discovered them in the US over a decade ago. I’m delighted to find they are now available in the UK (and thus in plenty of Europe too) via Amazon. If you’d like me to send you one to try, just ask [...]
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My article on the problem of indemnity requirements for open source procurement is now available in the Essays section, in English and Portuguese. O artigo “Aquisição de Software Livre: Indenizações” está agora disponível traduzido para o Português na seção Essays. Muito obrigado a Bruno Souza e Ana Prado.
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The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3 Congratulations to the Document Foundation team who have just released the first full version of LibreOffice. The key improvements are largely invisible to the user – creating a new build system that’s more usable, tidying the code to make it easier for community members to participate, simplifying the Windows [...]
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Brazil’s new License for Trademarks (Licença Pública de Marca, or LPM) adds additional rights on top of those delivered by open source. It ensures that any trademarks used in the software can be freely used by the community and means that control of trademarks can’t be used to chill the ability to exercise the four [...]
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Oracle Nominates Bruno Souza of SouJava to JCP EC A very astute move by Oracle here. They are proposing that the seat on the Java Community Process Executive Committee vacated by Apache should be filled by the São Paulo-based Brazilian Java User Group SouJava, represented by my charming and smart friend and former Sun colleague [...]
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You’ll recall that ForgeRock (where I work) launched the OpenIDM project back in October. One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning or IDM software. It’s the point all the threads of directory, authentication, authorisation and provisioning come together and it’s the part that the proprietary vendors are least willing to [...]
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