I am no longer working for Mandriva S.A. since the beginning of the year. I was working as a consultant on marketing as well as on the Open Source relations for the company since 2012 and it is time for me to move forward. I had a great time at …
If you have been following the news and stories on Linux distributions since over ten years like I have been, you tend to have a fairly standard view -yet an educated one- about what’s going on with them, why every year since about 2002 this could have been the year …
This is the second edition of my “Eyes and Ears” series of posts and this time it’s Christmas time, so I felt the urge to start by sharing this typical Christmas music video (yes it is typical): Christmas Is All Around from Clips on Vimeo. And without much further ado, …
A few days ago I entered a conversation (in French) on the LibreOffice mailing lists that was highlighting the misunderstanding that some people were caught into about how the project is running and how Free and Open Source Software works. There was nothing new in this conversation, so to speak. …
Last week I was speaking at the SFSCon 2013 in Bolzano-Bozen in South Tyrol, Italy. This event was a great moment as it connects both the local players of Free and Open Source Software and the boader FOSS scene, while the relative seclusion of the Tyrolean mountains and – we …
A few weeks ago we started to have a quite interesting discussion on the LibreOffice project’s marketing mailing list on how to engage users in our community. Readers of Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards may remember that during the LibreOffice Conference of 2012 in Berlin, the marketing strategy …
The title of this post may sound rather belligerant, but it is for a reason. Ever since this Summer -longer in fact- I ended having several conversations with people from the FSF, OSI, April and FSFE (as well as other orgs). Something is becoming increasingly obvious: FOSS has come of …
During the last OpenWorld Forum in Paris there were a lot of panel discussions and talks, private and public about the trends in Free and Open Source Software. I was part of a panel about FOSS communities growth and development and there was in the room next to us a …
Today we are happy to announce that the final schedule of the LibreOffice Conference 2013! Very quickly, the first day -the 24th- will be dedicated to board and community meetings such as the Localization meetup and the Engineering Steering Committee session. Then for the ongoing three days 2 tracks, community …