Brand Community
Having seen the power of the open source community first-hand, I am of the opinion that the fastest way to innovate involves setting free the collective intelligence of your community.Your community may be your team, your company, your customers, or anyone who can identify with others through a common
Company Culture
We are proud to have been asked to participate in the AIGA and Adobe series Defining the Studio of 2015.This exploration by AIGA and Adobe is all about taking a look at the design studios of the future and the different set of expectations for design practice. Being a
Company Culture
In the open source software world there has long been the mantra of "Release early, release often." This served many purposes to the mechanics of the open source way of working. Mainly, it ensured that people were able to keep on top of the codebase when they wanted
Leadership
Reconnecting North CarolinaThe Research Triangle Foundation is the private organization that manages the Research Triangle Park. The research park is reconnecting with North Carolina to reimagine the state’s future and redevelop the area. In addition to promoting the Research Triangle, attracting tenant companies, and maintaining the Park, the Foundation
Brand Community
We are operating in the social era, where groups of people can create powerful change. Check out New Kind thinking on how to thrive.Thank you to the National Council on International Visitors for inviting New Kind to speak at the 2012 NCIV Southern Regional Meeting! The NCIV and its
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The Open Source Observatory flashed an eye-popping headline last week: “Moving to open source would save [The Netherlands] government one to four billion [euro].” I had hoped I could do the dirty work of going over the report in fine detail and give you the summary, but there are two
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"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.”Those were the words of James Madison in 1822, repeated in a letter dated February 25 to Librarian of Congress James Billington. The letter
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There was a bit of news coming out the European Parliament recently that could be easily overlooked. MEP Indrek Tarand (of Estonia no less), along with some non-MEP partners, started the European Parliament Free Software User Group (EPFSUG).With goals like “assist people in using Free Software in the European
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A funny thing happens as a Congressional session comes to a close. Priorities, whether political or policy, rocket to the surface. It becomes a war of attrition, of who can keep things 'out of sight, out of mind' before people get tired and want to go home.But,
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Last week I attended the EPIC conference in New York City. One of the more interesting topics came by way of Saudi Arabia. If you haven’t heard of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, you’re missing out on one of the grander experiments at the
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Is there such a thing as the open source community? A related question was covered here before, about whether the word community means anything anymore. But, I still see the term “the open source community” regularly lobbed. Here on opensource.com a search turns up 61 articles. [Some were for
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Jonathan Rauch wrote in the National Journal Saturday on the “radical decentralization” of the tea party. A “Tea Party Patriots coordinator and co-founder” talks about it this way:“I use the term open-source politics. This is an open source movement.... The movement as a whole is smart.” No doubt, this