Development by Davis: “Mozilla measures interest in their open source projects using site metrics” plus 4 more

Mozilla measures interest in their open source projects using site metrics
Who would you take...fishing?
AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Outlines Vision for “Surround Computing,” Bringing an Era of Personalized, Adaptive and Responsive Environments to Consumers
AMD Hires John Gustafson as Chief Graphics Product Architect
Linux Foundation welcomes newest silver member, Twitter

Mozilla measures interest in their open source projects using site metrics

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

David Boswell has a couple of interesting posts (here and here) about how he is using metrics to measure how effective Mozilla is at attracting and engaging people who express an interest in helping contribute to the Mozilla mission.

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Who would you take...fishing?

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT

If you had a boat and a cooler full of bait for a week of fishing off your favorite body of water, who would you take?

Linus Torvalds (Linux)

Mitchell Baker (Mozilla)

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu)

Bob Young (Serial entrepreneur)

Richard Stallman (GNU/FSF)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

McKayla (She's still not impressed)

This poll is based on a life situation you will likely never find yourself in, but isn't it fun to ponder who you would take and why (comments)?

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AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Outlines Vision for “Surround Computing,” Bringing an Era of Personalized, Adaptive and Responsive Environments to Consumers

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

In a keynote address opening the prestigious annual Hot Chips symposium, AMD (NYSE: AMD) CTO Mark Papermaster delivered a vision for the coming "Surround Computing Era," and unveiled new processor architecture details which will enable technologies and desig...

AMD Hires John Gustafson as Chief Graphics Product Architect

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that the visionary behind Gustafson's Law, John Gustafson, has joined the company as senior fellow and chief product architect, Graphics Business Unit. In this role, Gustafson will set the technical vision for the AM...

Linux Foundation welcomes newest silver member, Twitter

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Our interview with Chris Aniszczyk this month explored why open source software is the key to how Twitter successfully sends over 400 millions tweets a day. To manage that kind of massive, real-time data, they've identified Linux as the best possible system for the job. So, it comes as no surprise that Twitter became a silver member of The Linux Foundation this week—reportedly only costing them around $15,000 USD.