Leftovers: OSS
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How I learned the difference between a community and an audience
It's not every day that your CEO gives you a telephone ring, so I definitely remember the day mine phoned me. He'd called to tell me about a puzzling voicemail he'd just received.
I was a consultant for a tech community website and the team was rolling out a major site renovation. Our goal was to modernize the look and functionality of the site and, equally importantly, better monetize it so it could survive and thrive in the long term.
Apparently, however, not everyone welcomed the changes we'd made. In fact, that's why the CEO was calling me: an active and passionate member of the website's community, someone irked by our alterations, had found his home phone number and called him directly to protest. And he wanted me to intervene.
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IBM Adds Node.js Debugging to Bluemix
After building up its Node.js expertise with its StrongLoop acquisition, IBM has added Node.js debugging capabilities to its Bluemix PaaS.
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Xen Project 4.6 released with enhanced security to match challenges in cloud computing, IoT
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Xen Project Virtualization Updated With Improved VMI and Security
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Xen 4.6 strengthens security and Intel support
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Xen 4.6 Open Source Linux Hypervisor Brings NSA's Virtual Trusted Platform Module
Earlier today, October 13, the Xen Project, through Liu Wei, had the great pleasure of informing the world about the immediate availability for download of the Xen 4.6 open-source Linux hypervisor software.
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[Older] Innovating in a time of budget cuts: Why the city of Bari swapped Microsoft for open source
One Italian city has decided to move its 1,700s PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
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Concurrent Announces Open-Source Transparent Caching Solution
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Startup DataVisor Nabs $14.5 Million to Fund Spark-based Security
DataVisor, a startup company that is building big things around Apache Spark, has announced that it has secured $14.5 million in Series A funding, led by GSR and NEA, to purportedly help protect consumer-facing websites and mobile apps from cyber criminals. The young company's founders spent years working on computer security at Microsoft Research, and are now focused on big data.
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LLVM Is Pursuing A Community Code of Conduct
While the LLVM community tends to be very respectful to one another and I'm having a hard time thinking of when things have ever gotten out of hand in their mailing list discussions, they are now pursuing a Community Code of Conduct.
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21 October: session on public sector modernisation
Five experts plan to challenge some of our traditional assumptions about the role of the public sector at the 'Public Sector Modernisation: Open(ing) Governments, Open(ing) minds' session on Wednesday 21 October. The experts will elaborate on questions like 'How can governments meet the expectations of 21st century citizens?' and 'How is the information revolution going to further transform our governments?'.
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Google Introduces New Developer Tools for Cloud Platform
Google's Cloud Datalab and Cloud Shell continue company’s efforts to help developers with apps running on Cloud Platform.
The developer community has been a key focus area for Google in its strategy to drive broader enterprise adoption of the company’s Cloud Platform service. -
2013 and internship
My college days were coming to an end with placements all around. I was sure to work in a startup. One fine day, I saw a job posting on hasjob on 12th December 2012 that boldly said “HackerEarth is buidling its initial team - Python/Django enthusiast needed”. The idea made me apply to HackerEarth and after a few rounds of email with Sachin and Vivek. I landed up in a remote intern position.
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