A few weeks ago I published a post entitled Some Thoughts on Improving Bugzilla. The post got a fair bit a traction and received a large number of supportive comments. But what was best, about the post, about open source, about Mozilla, is that it drew me into a serious of conversations with people who [...]
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Bugzilla – progress made and new thoughts
On Governments and Intellectual Property (or why we move slowly)
David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week. The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the hands of those who desperately needed it. But alas, no [...]
Some thoughts on improving Bugzilla
One of the keys to making an open source project work is getting feedback from users and developers about problems (bugs) in the code or system. Mozilla (the organization behind Firefox and Thunderbird) uses Bugzilla, but organizations have developed a variety of systems for dealing with this issue. For example, many cities use 311. I’m [...]
Awesome Interactions: More on my Mozilla Summit 2010 Ignite Talk
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of being at the Mozilla Summit. This is a gathering of about 650ish people from innumerable countries around the world to talk about Mozilla, the future of the open web, the various Mozilla products (such as Firefox and Thunderbird). As Mozilla is a distributed community of thousands of [...]
Saving Millions: Why Cities should Fork the Kuali Foundation
For those interested in my writing on open source, municipal issues and technology, I want to be blunt: I consider this to be one of the most important posts I’ll write this year. A few months ago I wrote an article and blog post about “Muniforge,” an idea based on a speech I’d given at [...]
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