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Open Source Strategy: OpenMRS case study

Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to Indianapolis to give a talk at the Regenstrief Institute – an informatics and healthcare research organization – which also happens to host the founders of OpenMRS.
For those not familiar with OpenMRS (which I assume to be most of you) it is open-source, enterprise electronic medical [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 | David Eaves § OpenMRS § open source § technology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Making Open Source Communities (and Open Cities) More Efficient

My friend Diederik and I are starting to work more closely with some open source projects about how to help “open” communities (be they software projects or cities) become more efficient.
One of the claims of open source is that many eyes make all bugs shallow. However, this claim is only relevant if there is a [...]

Posted 23 November 2009 | David Eaves § open source § technology ‡ Comments (14) ° Also tagged: , ,

SXSWi Panel: Fostering Collaborative Open Source Communities

Yesterday I saw this academic journal article and was reminded about how an individuals behaviour can negatively impact and groups productivity. In his article “Overlooked but not untouched: How incivility reduces onlookers’ performance on routine and creative tasks.” in the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (109: 29-44) Amir Erez describes how even just witnessing [...]

Posted 31 August 2009 | David Eaves § negotiation § open source § technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Remixing Angie Byron to create the next Million Mozillians

As I’ve noted in some previous posts, Angie Byron gave a presentation on getting more women in open source. My feeling is that the systems, culture and tools we put in place to attract more women into open source are the same systems we need to attract lots of new people into open source. Something [...]

Posted 28 July 2009 | David Eaves § open source ‡ Comments (27) ° Also tagged: ,

Women in Open Source and Florida’s Bohemian Index

Just a quick somewhat brief follow up to yesterday’s post on women in open source.
I got lots of great feedback and comments for which I’m grateful and wanted to say one or two things.
First, I recognize the title to the post, particularly the “Canary in a Coal Mine” was far from perfect. The exclusion of [...]

Posted 21 July 2009 | David Eaves § open source ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , ,

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