Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes
It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software

Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class
As textbooks, [...]

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I started linkrolling my bookmarks during during this weekend’s U.S. Open but soon became obsessed by Rocco and Tiger. So here’s my marketing, SEO, and social media links for last week.

The Marketing of Fear - “The challenge of marketing with fear isn’t efficacy. Of course fear marketing works. The challenge is ethics and brand.” My [...]

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Red Hat News | RHX: Lessons Learned - RHX is different now. The team is smaller and the target market is different; but, fundamentally, RHX is smarter. It’s very much alive and is undergoing its third iteration.
The Real Firefox-Killer | Linux Journal - This new competitor to Firefox is called Maxthon, and, significantly, come from [...]

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ZDNet: Stallman comments on Oyster
Richard’s not happy about the  London’s Oyster system which does use an open source operating system and other OSS it has a “freedom flaw”.  Due to the unique ID of each card makes it very easy to be used as surveillance tool, I like Richard’s remedy…
To protect yourself from surveillance, [...]

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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - 50 ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook… (via the Real Paul Jones)
Blogging [...]

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