Interviews
How Wil Wheaton Gets Things Done [Interviews]
In 1988, if you'd told my Star Trek-loving 12-year-old self that someday I'd get to meet Wil Wheaton—and that he'd know my name—my preteen head would have exploded. Twenty years later, I...
Interview: Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader
Steve McIntyre is the recently elected Debian Prioject Leader. He is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the Debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.
Patron Saint of Computing on Free Software
During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is pretty much at the apex, certainly in the world of computer science.
His interviews are all-too rare these days, not least because he is racing against time to write as much of his magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming, as he can. So I was pleased to come across this one, in which St Donald has these wise words to say on the subject of free software:
The success of open source code is perhaps the only thing in the computer field that hasn’t surprised me during the past several decades. But it still hasn’t reached its full potential; I believe that open-source programs will begin to be completely dominant as the economy moves more and more from products towards services, and as more and more volunteers arise to improve the code.
Open Enterprise Interviews
On my other gig, at Computerworld UK, there's now a handy page bringing together the growing collection of interviews with open source luminaries. Here's the list so far:
Denis Lussier: Postgres
Rich Guth: Actuate
Jeff Haynie: Appcelerator
Ismael Ghalimi: Intalio
Mary Lou Jepsen: One Laptop Per Child founding CTO
Howard Chu: OpenLDAP chief architect
Ivo Jansch: PHP
Stefane Fermigier: Nuxeo
Javier Soltero: CEO Hyperic
Jono Bacon: Canonical's Ubuntu Community Manager
Fabrizio Capobianco: Funambol founder
Tristan Nitot: President Mozilla Europe
Dominic Sartorio: President Open Solutions Alliance
Mark Taylor: President Open Source Consortium
Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom
Bradley Kuhn is one of the founding team members of the Software Freedom Law Center, and a longtime advocate for the cause of Free Software. Many consider him one of the most influential voices in the worldwide FLOSS community. Kuhn, formerly the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, took some time recently to catch us up on his latest work.
ccLearn—Features in Open Education
Lately, a virtual whirlwind of projects and people and organizations have blown our way, and we don’t expect the dust to settle any time soon. To keep track of some of the progress and collaboration within open education, we’ve started to host bi-monthly features ranging from individual interviews to project spotlights. We hope to open your eyes and ears to what these voices in the movement have to say.
Spotlight on FOSS: An Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
We decided to start an impromptu video podcast called, "Spotlight on FOSS," or Spotlight on Free and Open Source Software. The premise of the show is that we interview someone in the Free and Open Source Software world, and spotlight a software solution they have contributed to.
My Interview With Richard Stallman.
"Last week I got the opportunity to fire questions to unarguably one of the most influential and inspirational people of our time.
Interview: How a hacker became a freedom fighter
"One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law.
The FlyLady Interviews Lifehacker Today [Announcements]
This evening at 5PM Pacific Time I'll be joining The FlyLady Marla Cilley and Alan Levy on their streaming radio show at BlogTalkRadio called Now is the Time. Join us at 5PM this evening to listen...
Richard Stallman, Live and Unplugged
It’s almost 8 PM on a Tuesday night, and the lecture hall here at Virginia Tech University is filled nearly to capacity. The students – many of them computer science majors – have come to hear Richard Stallman, the grand forefather of GNU/Linux. The crowd is chatty and seems in a good mood.
