We know that using an open source model for software development drives innovation, reveals bugs and fixes more quickly, and allows for creative minds to collaborate in ways that just can't happen with proprietary code. Because of this, we have been seeing more open source software projects emerge over the past few years. That's not [...]
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This weekend I attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose. Before it even started, I had an interesting discussion with Jack Repenning and a man who was investigating various community models for a homeschooling organization he's working for. As we talked about the needs of the parents of homeschoolers, I realized how much they [...]
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For two days last week myself and the other CollabNet community managers brainstormed ideas, shared experiences, and drove direction for an Enterprise Community "Cookbook". Over the course of time, it has come to the managers attention that written processes were needed, problems shared, and solutions derived and pulled together into a single resource area, not [...]
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Last week I attended the Virtual Edge Summit, which focused exclusively on providing education, training, and solutions for planning and producing virtual events. I attended the first day in person, and the second day virtually. It’s not surprising in this economy that virtual conferences are becoming more popular. What I did find interesting was the [...]
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I must admit, I really enjoy my job, and the industry that I'm in. This week I went to the Virtual Edge Summit conference in Santa Clara. Today, I am attending that same conference, but I'm participating while lying on the couch, laptop on my lap (go figure) in my jammies, and getting other work [...]
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As the new Community Manager for CollabNet, I wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I come from a 10-year stint at Sun Microsystems, having worked in their Java forums, on java.net, writing for java.sun.com, and as developer represenative in Second Life. In working with each of those communities, it was important for me to [...]
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To address the “handoff” dilemma, CollabNet TeamForge and VMware Studio deliver an on-ramp to production and cloud environments. Now, you can take advantage of this end-to-end solution. Code applications, create and publish virtual appliances, connect with cloud service providers, and then manage and update conveniently through the CollabNet TeamForge – VMware Studio combination. The application [...]
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For those of you with CollabNet Subversion 1.6, we have updated our binaries with the 1.6.1 release for Windows. Binaries for RHEL and Solaris will follow shortly. Feedback and questions regarding our Subversion binaries should go in the discussion forums. Dana NourieDana Nourie is a CollabNet Community manager, and has worked with a variety of [...]
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I recently had the pleasure of attending the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in San Jose, and it gave me the opportunity to listen to 2 very contrasting approaches to what amounted to the same thing: university outreach. On one side was Jean Elliott, discussing how Sun was going to approach (reach? eclipse? fall just [...]
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As we work on some new initiatives for 2009 (news to come later!), I recalled a presentation I gave in March at the SDForum Open Source SIG with Fabrizio Capobianco from Funambol. Read on for highlights and to see the slides. Dana NourieDana Nourie is a CollabNet Community manager, and has worked with a variety [...]
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