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Development by Davis: “Open source meets capitalism: Collaborate by competing” plus 2 more

Open source meets capitalism: Collaborate by competing
AMD’s Mike Wolfe Named Transformational CIO by The Enterprise CIO Forum
What open source can teach government officials

Open source meets capitalism: Collaborate by competing

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT

The internet has had a profound effect on many areas of commerce. One area the internet has not yet had a profound affect upon is how people are organized to perform work. We believe this is about to change and change dramatically. TopCoder is an early example of a 'pure internet' model which performs complex work at scale.

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AMD’s Mike Wolfe Named Transformational CIO by The Enterprise CIO Forum

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Mike Wolfe is the inaugural 2012 honoree of the Transformational CIO Award, which recognizes leading-edge CIOs...

What open source can teach government officials

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:50 AM PDT

What started with a unanimous vote to adopt an open source resolution eventually became a long-term commitment to the open source way. How many of you have had an elected official attend a citizen-lead event? Probably some of you. But how many of you have had your entire city or town council attend an unconference?

At a recent open government unconference, all city council members—including the mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina—attended some or all of the event. Their attendance wasn't a requirement—and it wasn't a political drive-by. It was genuine, natural. And some of them got knee-deep in the "code," competing in the civic hackathon.