My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when I use them in conversation.
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Next week JavaZone, the conference that brought you Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office, we’ve arranged for a party just before the conference starts, on Tuesday evening. If you are in Oslo and would like to attend, please send an RSVP to the address on the web site.
As part of that, James Gosling and I will be “beaming in” via webcast to give short talks and maybe even answer a few questions. If you’d like to join the webcast (using DimDim), please register on our website.
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In response to several comments, I’ve just extracted my discussion of direct and indirect causality from my recent article on why “which licence” is now the wrong question in understanding open source communities. The discussion can found as the essay Direct and Indirect Causality. I’m keen to get it fixed up so your comments are invited (here).
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Just a reminder that, in addition to this blog, I still maintain an aggregator over at webmink.net which collects all the posts I make from various places. If you read mainly through a feed reader, you may prefer to follow webmink.net as that way you’ll also see all the posts I make on ComputerWorldUK as well as photographs from Flickr and occasional posts elsewhere. If you have an Amazon Kindle, you can also subscribe to webmink.com so you can read everything on your Kindle.
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Small administrative note: ComputerWorldUK switched over to a much more attractive design last night, and at the same time switched their blogging platform to Moveable Type. As a consequence, the URLs for my blog postings over there have all changed, along with the address for the RSS/Atom feed. Although I gather they will be maintaining redirects, you’ll want to update your bookmarks.
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If you’re a Kindle owner, you may be interested to know that Wild Webmink is now available for the Kindle. Go to the Kindle Store US or the Kindle Store UK to subscribe.
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Today is a significant milestone for the new venture I’m helping, ForgeRock. We’ve announced availability of our first full independent release of OpenAM, the open source authentication and access management system. If you look at the release, you’ll see it’s a significant update, with SAML2 support, fine-grained authentication controls and a host of other improvements.
It’s significant for open source because it signals that the OpenAM community – especially the part on ForgeRock’s own team – is up to speed maintaining and evolving the code and that the transition from its former home is going well. And it’s important to OpenSSO customers because it finally gives them a smooth upgrade path from the version 8 of Sun’s old OpenSSO product, which most of them are using.
My congratulations go out to the whole community for their work, but especially to the ForgeRock team who have been working flat out to make it happen – especially Steve, who really deserves a break! Great job, everyone!
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You may have noticed I was a bit quiet last week. The reason? I was in Norway at a company summit for my new job, which actually starts today. More than that, I also have a new column in ComputerWeeklyUK, joining the esteemed Glyn Moody in providing their coverage of free and open source software. Glyn’s view is as an observer and (in the best sense) critic. Mine is as a practitioner, reporting from the field – a little like Matt Asay on CNet in the US. I’ll keep on blogging here, but anything with a tone of reportage is likely to end up over there.
The first post for the new column is today – read about my new job over there now.
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I’m sitting at Heathrow Airport waiting for my flight to the US, volcano permitting, reflecting on the week.
It’s been a busy week on multiple levels. Last weekend I was up in Liverpool at OggCamp, where the photo to the right was taken after my keynote address – one of the delegates had brought a full picnic basket and we sat eating cake and drinking Pimms on the steps in the centre of the city.
OggCamp was a great event, full of energy, enthusiasm and optimism (which I almost felt sad to be damping with my pessimistic views on the future of our freedoms). An unconference created on-the-spot by the attendees,, it was well worth the trip to Liverpool (despite the Millwall “fans” on the train home). I’d recommend attending next year.
Following OggCamp I went abroad for the start of the week, spending an intense three days with some really great people talking about a very exciting set of plans and ideas we share. I’ll be announcing full details on Monday when I’ll have two pieces of news I find tremendous.
The week ended with the general election in the UK. No political party has overall control in Parliament and I view that as the best outcome from a bad set of options. The politicians have the chance to create consensus-driven minority-led government, if they choose to set their egos and power-lusts aside. Drawing together the views of many individuals is exactly what’s needed to deal with the hard problems that face us – participating in a highly-meshed global economy, providing security in a connected society without eliminating privacy and rights, conducting politics in a diverse and rapidly changing society.
For those sorts of problems, we need people who understand the connected society first-hand rather than from the dinner tables of the powerful. I think that a Parliament where respect for the views of many is an essential predicate for progress is actually what we need, rather than the hollow bluster we heard from the political parties.
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Geeks Vote Too
As the election in the UK approaches, I think it’s time to tell the people chasing our votes that actually we do understand the issues around digital liberty and we think it’s time for them to listen to us as well as the lobbyists. After all, we have votes and the lobbyists don’t.
I’ve designed the simple logo you see to the left. It’s meant to capture the idea that I’m a geek with a vote. During the election season, I intend to wear a badge with this logo, or at some events a t-shirt. I’d be delighted if other people did the same, and/or used the image online.
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