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I finally listened to Randy Pausch’s last lecture linked from Stephen Walli’s blog. It was so good I clapped at the end of the lecture alone in my office. Randy passed away last week from pancreatic cancer and this is his last speech. Randy was a brilliant man who was a professor of computer [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/07/30/randy-pauschs-last-lecture/" });

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particularly good episode because of the open source angles. Here’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/07/17/zenoss-opennms-and-clouds-on-the-it-management/" });

tecosystems » Earth Class Mail: Still Open for Business? - Stephen’s review of Earth Class Mail a snail mail handling service.

A few weeks ago I felt a little like a proud pappa, well maybe more like an uncle since I can’t claim to have been present for the conception.

SourceForge.net: ICEcore - ICEcore collaboration software is the July 2008 SF.net project of the month. GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director - Open Logic’s Stormy Peters leaves OpenLogic for the GNOME Foundation interesting job. (Via Savio) SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds - Integration and Cloud Computing - Mikeyp gets it right, “…cloud computing will not happen overnight [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Open Source Links 7-11-2008", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/07/13/open-source-links-7-11-2008/" });

Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive team as the VP of Business Development.

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class As textbooks, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Links: Open Source Week in Review", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/06/22/links-open-source-week-in-review/" });