First of all, note that I said “for consideration.” Members of the OpenOffice “podling” at Apache, including folks who are IBM employees, will get to look at the changes and improvements that IBM made to OpenOffice code when it was incorporated into Symphony. If the podling members decide to use it, great! If they decide to do something else, so be it, that’s the way open source communities work.

The changes affect areas of usability, performance, and accessibility. IBM’s hope is that this donation can further accelerate the development of OpenOffice as a platform for openness and innovation in the document creation and editing space. OpenOffice and software like Symphony that builds on it continue to help drive use of ODF, the Open Document Format. We’ve learned over the past few years that vendor-controlled or -dictated document formats are just a bad idea. A healthy and vibrant OpenOffice open source development community in Apache will help ensure continued adherence to the open standard as well as a codebase that can be used for desktop, mobile, and even cloud applications.

Work on Symphony will continue with the Apache OpenOffice code an essential part of its core. Just as IBM’s WebSphere Application Server (a product now very close to my heart) uses Apache open source code but has code also written by IBM, so too will Symphony continue to evolve within IBM using code from Apache. Employees of IBM will contribute to OpenOffice as part of the community. IBM will benefit from the work done by others in the community, but so too will we all.

As the core OpenOffice code gets better and better, downstream projects and products like Symphony will benefit because they can focus on the features that distinguish them and add particular value for their users. This other software might have alternative user interfaces, support different devices, or be optimized for particular consumer or enterprise applications.

I believe a strong OpenOffice community within the Apache Software Foundation benefits everyone who cares about standards and innovation for document processing. The community is growing, code is being added, the roadmap is becoming clearer. Please consider participating.

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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced “Open Source Enterprise Solutions, Cloud Computing, and Community Leadership” as the theme for ApacheCon North America.

ApacheCon is the ASF’s official conference, trainings, and expo, created to explore key issues in using and developing Open Source solutions “The Apache Way”. This year’s event takes place 7-11 November 2011 at the Westin Bayshore Vancouver, Canada, with early registration incentives available through 2 September 2011.

I keynoted at this conference last year and it is definitely worth your consideration for attendance. You can learn more at the ApacheCon website.

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The GNOME Foundation today announced that it has appointed Karen Sandler as Executive Director. Sandler’s dedication to software freedom, her non-profits experience and her involvement in a wide range of free and open source software communities distinguish her as the logical choice for GNOME. “I’m very excited that Karen is joining the GNOME Foundation as Executive Director!”, says Stormy Peters, former Executive Director who has recently joined the GNOME Board as a new Director, “Karen brings a wealth of experience in free software projects and nonprofits as well as a passion for free software. That experience will be invaluable as GNOME continues to expand its reach with GNOME 3.0 and GNOME technologies.”

Good luck to Karen in her new role in this exciting time for user interface technologies on the desktop and on mobile devices.

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Much will be written over the next few days about this move, and all sorts of theories and opinions will be advanced about what did happen, why it happened, and what else might have happened. There are many fine free and open source licenses out there as well as hosting organizations. Be that as it may, I think the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a great place for this project to be incubated. With luck and a lot of community participation and work, OpenOffice will soon advance to a full fledged project.

Though I had earlier heard of the Apache HTTP Server project, I really started learning about Apache about 10 years ago when IBM and others helped start projects related to XML and web services. That is, I discovered that Apache was a very significant organization for creating open source software implementing open standards.

In some sense, the value of a standard is proportional to the number of people who use it. An Apache implementation of a standard means that software, be it open source or proprietary, can start using the standard quickly and reliably. An Apache implementation of a standard immediately increases the value of the standard.

OpenOffice happens to implement a standard called the Open Document Format (ODF), something I’ve written about several hundred times in the last few years. While the incubator won’t be starting from scratch, ODF will continue to evolve and need updated implementations.

Over time, the code will be refactored and more uses will be found for it. Within a couple of years I think you’ll find greater use of ODF in other desktop applications, mobile apps, and even in the cloud. This won’t all come from the existing code base but rather also from new contributions from others working in the ASF.

ODF is not the only thing that OpenOffice supports: it’s got word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and other capabilities. Within Apache I think you’ll see advances in the user interface, functionality, performance, and reliability.

This has to be done, in my opinion, in a way that makes subsets of the code easier to use in other software. That is, and again this is my opinion, OpenOffice will get better by being more modular with well designed interfaces. I’m not dissing what is there, I’m describing how I think it will get even better and enabled for much broader adoption of the code.

I hope that OpenOffice in Apache will be viewed as a way to bring together some of the threads that have separated from the main project trunk over the last few years. Apache has a well deserved reputation for its process and high quality software. This is a place where people can get together under one virtual roof and turn OpenOffice into what people always thought it could be.

With this move, we’ll get a chance to see what empowered individuals with the right technical chops can do in a community to innovate on the current code base. I’m very excited to see what they come up with.

Also see

• Comments by my IBM colleagues Ed Brill and Rob Weir.
• The IBM press release on how it plans to take part in this project at Apache.

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Here are the videos directly:

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Related Blog Entries

• “Asking the hard questions about open source software”
• “10 elements of open source governance in your organization”
• “10 considerations for maintaining open source in your organization”
• “10 ideas about integrating open source into your IT infrastructure”
• “10 things traditional software customers want to know about open source”

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If I’m an individual and I want to open source some code and start a project, I suppose I could always do it by myself. My code would get out there, people could use it to do whatever it does, and they could harvest the source to do bigger and better things. That’s fine, but for the project to really take off and grow, you’re going to need more people.

You’ll want coders and architects and testers and, if you are lucky, you’ll get documenters and designers and UI specialists. Yes, you might be able to do all these things eventually, but it will go faster and better with friends.

If you are a business and have made the decision to open source some code, you need to learn to trust others in the community. Through the years I’ve heard of multiple companies that never really opened up their open source projects to non-employee committers because they were afraid of losing control.

“What if they steer the project to someplace we don’t want it to go?”

“What if someone who doesn’t work for us becomes the leader of the project and we lose the PR advantage?”

“WHAT IF SOMEONE ELSE MAKES MORE MONEY THAN US?”

While bad things can happen in any group of two or more people, here’s the thing: you need to let go.

The project will stay on track in a direction useful to you if you participate aggressively and contribute solid code, but only if you let others do the same. Don’t expect others to yield to you as the project founder, have them do so because you deserve it because of your high quality contributions and good behavior.

Similarly, you will continue to be a leader if you act like one. That means you don’t keep threatening to take up your marbles and go home. That means understanding that sometimes other people have better ideas than you do. That means learning to negotiate and collaborate vs. being a bully.

As to making money, open or closed source won’t save you if you are fundamentally not good at business. However, I would caution you that having an “it’s only business” attitude might not jive well with others in your community if you carry an attitude that you should be the only one profitting from the effort.

So in my opinion, this is how you can succeed in starting an open source community:

• Be honest with those people you are trying to recruit about your reasons for working in open source. Clearly state your goals and how you will measure success for yourself and the community.
• Contribute your code, but accept improvements or better solutions.
• Give up sole control of the project to a more democratic leadership in order to get a better code base that you can use, at a lower development cost to yourself. Don’t stack the leadership group with cronies or puppets.
• Don’t act like a prima donna just because you started the project.
• Trust that if you and everyone else plays fairly but works hard, you’ll get something of great value that many can use.

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With all the progress open source software has made in the last few years, especially Linux, things don’t seem quite so certain in the area of software for mobile devices. In this talk I’ll discuss some of the problems developers are facing as they try to build applications for the hottest platforms and the choices they have available to reach the maximum number of users.

As I prepare the talk over the next few weeks I’ll put some links up here to relevant sites that support some of the points I’ll be making or provide more information.

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The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference brings a world-class lineup of IT thought leaders to the Southeast for three days to discuss the latest issues for developers, executives, government leaders and educators.

Open source software continues to be one of the hottest and most relevant topics in information technology as organizations strive to meet the increasing demand for innovation with shrinking budgets. That’s why the goal of the organizers is to provide affordable access to quality open source education.

In 2010, more than 350 people from 14 states, 20 colleges and universities and about 100 business and government organizations attended.

In 2011, POSSCON will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center for all three days and will feature an executive forum, hands-on workshops, and social and networking events. Programming tracks will be offered in the areas of Technical, Educations, Healthcare and Leadership

Update: The video of my keynote is now available.
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The announcement details what the Foundation is looking for:

The Gnome Foundation is currently recruiting an Executive Director to run and grow The GNOME Foundation and project by engaging volunteers, governments, partners, companies and independent organizations. The Executive Director will work to develop and maintain programs to further GNOME’s goals, to promote the benefits of the GNOME platform, and encourage contribution and collaboration within the GNOME ecosphere. Applicants for this job would be able to work effectively on their own, with little oversight, while possessing clear communications and persuasion skills so as to be comfortable talking about GNOME in front of large crowds at conferences, executives in boardrooms, one-on-one with heads of state, and with the GNOME volunteer community.

Following this is a list of the job requirements for potential applicants. They are all important, but in my opinion the one that states

Able to lead in a distributed volunteer, open source non-profit.

is especially significant.

Those with whom the ED must work are distributed around the world and are volunteers. This is very different from directing a local staff of paid workers.

The GNOME culture is open source through and through, and the ED must be in tune with that.

Finally, non-profit experience is very important because, again, the money to support the important work of the Foundation must come from somewhere, and the ED must drive the fund raising.

Though not stated in this requirement, strong communication skills are important for anyone in this position.

I encourage you to think about whether this position might be right for you or someone you know. I believe it is a great opportunity for the right person. Directions for applying are in the announcement.

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Dave Neary has written an article called ‘Open Source community building: a guide to getting it right’ that talks about open source communities and how and why companies get involved. It’s a very good roadmap for doing the right thing and also points out some pitfalls to avoid.

I haven’t read all the articles to which he links and may have some quibbles with them, but Dave is spot on with his analysis and advice. He offers this toward the end of the article:

After embracing open development practices, investing resources wisely, and growing your reputation over time, you can cultivate healthy give-and-take relationships, where everyone ends up a winner. The key to success is considering communities as partners in your product development.

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Here’s a list of these types of questions and my guesses at answers:

• Will ChromeOS from Google be an interesting player, will it merge with Android, and will it replace Windows on hundreds of millions of desktops? Yes / maybe / no.
• Will Android devices surpass those from Apple? Perhaps, but only in aggregate volume.
• Will one emerge that will clobber the iPad in market share? No way.
• Will some flavor of Windows be more significant than Android on tablets? No.
• Will we see more open source apps on the most popular smartphone platforms? Fewer than some people will hope, since developers see those platforms as a way to make money without a lot of the overhead.
• Will Linux gain further market share as people continue to flee from Solaris and install new servers for new applications? Yes for both the shift and the lift.
• Will there be more lawsuits around the use of open source in smartphones? Yes, and from the same and usual suspects.
• Will Windows Phone 7 beat out Android phones or iPhones? Only in the State of Washington, briefly.
• Will LibreOffice pass OpenOffice in downloads? No, but check back in 2012.
• Will open source virtualization via KVM start to gain market share against VMWare and Microsoft HyperV? Yes.
• Will the “open cloud” become more significant and more widely implemented? Only once we agree on a definition.
• Will Windows Internet Explorer continue to lose market share to Firefox, Chrome, and Safari? Yes.
• Will Diaspora replace FaceBook? No.
• Will any open source system replace WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla in the top three of open source content management systems? No.
• Will 2011 be the Year of the Linux Desktop? That was last year. Seriously, the question is no longer relevant, though Desktop Linux will be adopted by several surprisingly large organizations as well as many individuals.

In my personal opinion, the main open source areas to continue to watch in 2011 will be cloud, virtualization, system management, and analytics. Simplification and ease of use will be critical make or break factors for each.

On the standards side, the so-called open data movement will gain increasing importance especially as potential users realize they don’t want to have the formats dictated to them by a single company.

What are your predictions?

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Every once in a while I get asked to talk to a customer or a partner about “open innovation.” I immediately make it clear that I am not involved in the design or manufacturing of consumer products, be them electronic devices, household cleaners, or light bulbs. I have been very involved with open communities that have led to the creation of software and worldwide standards. That is, though I have focused on software there is a tremendous amount of open innovation in the IT industry.

While there are fairly formal definitions of open innovation, let me dance around the idea with a few statements that could come from people looking for it:

• “My organization is locked into old ways of thinking and process, and we need fresh ideas from outside to reinvigorate us.”
• “I recognize that the best ideas for growth might not come from people on my payroll.”
• “It’s too much work and expense for us to build a platform on which we can then innovate, so we want to work with others to build a common, shared foundation.”

Ideas that can derail this are:

• “I want to get good ideas and useful technologies from the outside, but I don’t want to give any back.”
• “There’s nothing ‘open’ about what we do, but it makes a heck of a great marketing term.”
• “We’ll start off being open and then become more proprietary if we gain marketshare.”
• “We would never be part of an open community unless we maintained control and were really in charge.”

While it is true that some in the open source community propose that all software be 100% free and unfettered forever, there are others that focus more on the core idea that sharing is good but what people do with the software after that is up to them.

Therefore if you are in another business that is considering working with people or a community outside your organization, be aware that there are many models for openness. Do the research on which is most appropriate for what you plan to do and how you want to engage.

I believe open innovation involves creating win-win situations for everyone involved, and that will require shared control, democratic governance, and trust. Something needs to be in it for everyone, though the gains desired and made will vary by party.

Not everyone will be successful when they are involved with open innovation. The best ideas in the world won’t always compensate for being lousy in business. Understand what risks you are willing to make and how hard you are willing to work, but also go into the endeavor knowing what success will look like for you and how you can measure if you have achieved it.

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Perhaps I’m thinking that because I myself haven’t blogged much lately. The main reason for that is that I’ve been exceptionally swamped with work and, in particular, have been doing a lot of writing. (If you haven’t tried it, the no-charge Lotus Symphony word processor is quite nice, by the way.)

So let’s consider why the news might be slowing down:

• The Apache Software Foundation vs. Oracle events are dominating the news cycles (as Tony Baer tweeted back to me, and I agree with him).
• Students are busy with final exams (per Brian Proffitt on Twitter).
• End of the year exhaustion (I’m certainly feeling some of that), coupled with that strange period between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the US.
• There are so many open source projects that it is harder for them to get much traction in the media.
• Many of the big projects have done minor releases lately (I installed WordPress 3.0.3, but it is not big news).
• Open source is become a common part of mainstream software discussions, and so doesn’t stand out as much as it used to do.
• WikiLeaks.
• People associated with commercial open source ventures have their heads down trying to close end-of-year deals.

Note I’m not basing my slowdown theory on any sort of formal measurements, just a feeling based on what I’ve been seeing on Twitter and in the news.

So it is December and things always pick up again in January. I love January announcements around products and industry efforts, especially if they surprise people. They are especially fun if people spend a lot at the end of one year doing detailed planning for the next, only to have an unexpected industry announcement cause them to rethink everything.

This is not to say I like having that happen to me, but it adds excitement to the IT industry, and that includes open source.

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I agree. See for example, my blog entry from June of 2005 called “Open Document Formats: “Open” must be more than a marketing term.” There, of course, I was talking about ODF and document formats and not the yet to be born or at least named technology of cloud computing. Here I want to expand a bit on what “open” might mean for cloud computing and quibble a little bit over one of David’s points.

David offers three conditions whereby someone can claim to be doing or providing open cloud computing.

• First, the vendor must provide the code for the core cloud product or service — not a subset of items on a separate code tree, which many vendors call the “open source version,” but what the vendor is actually pushing for its customers to use.
• Second, the vendor must take feedback, fixes, and new features back into the core code tree from outside the organization.
• Finally, the vendor doesn’t take legal action against anyone who takes its core product and builds something better with it, or includes it in other products.

It seems to me that David, who by the way is a seriously smart guy on these matters, is talking about “open source cloud computing.” That is, he is worried about the source code used to implement the cloud computing service and the right of others to use that code without fear of legal action.

I think we need to include some consideration of the standards being used, not just availability and reuse of the code. That is, can users and clients of the cloud service under discussion interact with and manage that cloud via fully open standards developed in a democratic and transparent manner by a diverse community of stakeholders? Are users locked into having their data owned by the cloud provider or can it be extracted at any time in an open and reusable format?

For this case, should we refer to “open standards-based cloud computing”? Might we reserve the term “open cloud computing” to include both the standards and open source components?

One comment on David’s second point: committers on open source projects may consider “feedback, fixes, and new features” for inclusion in the source code tree but they are not obligated to actually insert them. On the off chance that the feedback is misinformed, the fixes are buggy, or the new features lead to unnecessary bloat, it would be best to leave them out.

If the committers never ever consider the elements that David describes then indeed there is a problem. A healthy open source project takes the best recommendations and code and then uses them if they are in the best interest of the community of users and the architectural direction of the work.

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• For any programming language I mention that does something, there will be 10 that do something similar that I won’t mention, including your favorites.
• X10 does not try to hide concurrency or the multiprocessor, or pretend that concurrency is just a minor extension.
• We need more information like “it’s probably best not to try to solve that kind of problem in this language.”
• Would WoW use JavaScript today if Blizzard started over?
• How do you answer: how much energy is used in computing that result?
• People are terrified of being stuck with huge libraries of source code written in now abandoned languages.

I’ll post the full set of slides after the talk.

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Last spring I gave a talk at OSBC called “Asking the Hard Questions About Open Source Software.” Since that time I’ve given the talk several times to customers and partners, have added some more material about IBM’s use of open source, and tweaked it here and there.

Unfortunately, I never bothered to rename the basic talk. In case anyone finds it useful, I’m making the PDF of the presentation available here. I’ve covered several of the slides in more details several times on this blog, for example in this entry about open source governance.

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You less often hear about what I’ll call a “reverse fork”: people developing largely similar but separate projects who decide that they instead want to work together. They can do this for a variety of reasons but it all comes down to “burying the hatchet” or otherwise resolving their differences for the sake of the project.

With that preamble, IBM and Oracle have announced that they will work together on the newly reinvigorated OpenJDK project. As described on its website, OpenJDK is “The place to collaborate on an open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and related projects.” IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source runtime for Java. IBM will be shifting its development effort from the Apache Project Harmony to OpenJDK. For others who wish to do the same, we’ll work together to make the transition as easy as possible. IBM will still be vigorously involved in other Apache projects.

We think this is the pragmatic choice. It became clear to us that first Sun and then Oracle were never planning to make the important test and certification tests for Java, the Java SE TCK, available to Apache. We disagreed with this choice, but it was not ours to make. So rather than continue to drive Harmony as an unofficial and uncertified Java effort, we decided to shift direction and put our efforts into OpenJDK. Our involvement will not be casual as we plan to hold leadership positions and, with the other members of the community, fully expect to have a strong say in how the project is managed and in which technical direction it goes.

We also expect to see some long needed reforms in the JCP, the Java Community Process, to make it more democratic, transparent, and open. IBM and, indeed Oracle, have been lobbying for such transformations for years and we’re pleased to see them happening now. It’s time. Actually, it’s past time.

Ultimately this is about making Java more successful and pervasive than ever before. Java is not about any single company’s technical direction and it helps prevent lock-in. It runs on many, many different operating systems and hardware platforms. As a blatant plug, let me say Java runs exceptionally well on Linux and IBM’s System z, POWER, and Intel-based hardware. Indeed Java is one of the open standards that makes System z the amazingly interoperable platform that it is.

Java is about compatibility and always has been. It’s not been easy to maintain runtime environments that are consistent across platforms while exploiting the underlying features and performance advantages of those platforms. With this newly unified OpenJDK open source project, we can give customers the confidence they need to continue to invest in Java-based solutions knowing that they will get the best technology, the most important innovations, and the tightest collaboration among industry leaders.

We believe that this move to work together on OpenJDK is in the best interests of IBM’s customers and will help protect their investments in Java and IT technology based on it.

So to summarize my opinions on this: OpenJDK represents the best chance to provide a top notch unified open source runtime for Java; customers will benefit by having first class Java open standards developed collaboratively and constructively; and our energy will be focused on working together and optimizing our joint work, rather than wasting time on duplicative projects.

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ApacheCon, the official conference, trainings, expo, hackathon, barcamp and meetups of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the keynote presenters and sponsors for ApacheCon North America. This year’s event takes place 1-5 November 2010 at the Westin Peachtree in Atlanta, Georgia, with numerous early registration incentives available through Friday, 8 October 2010.

The conference theme, “Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation”, showcases an array of ASF-developed Open Source projects, community practices, and business solutions. Keynote addresses will be presented by:

• Dana Blankenhorn, Linux and Open Source Writer, ZDNet – Wednesday, 3 November, 9AM
• Daniel Crichton, Program Manager and Principal Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Thursday, 4 November 11:30AM
• Dr. Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Systems and Linux, IBM Corporation – Friday, 4 November 12:30PM

Apache developers, users, enthusiasts, software architects, administrators, executives, and community managers will learn to successfully develop, deploy, and leverage existing and emerging Open Source technologies critical to their businesses. Hands-on trainings and general conference sessions will cover in-depth dozens of Apache products such as Cassandra, Geronimo, Hadoop, Lucene, Tomcat, and the Apache HTTP Server.

My planned keynote is called “Data, Languages, and Problems” with the abstract

Much research work over the next decade will be driven by those seeking to solve complex problems employing the cloud, multicore processors, distributed data, business analytics, and mobile computing. In this talk I’ll discuss some past approaches but also look at work being done in the labs on languages like X10 that extend the value of Java through parallelism, technologies that drive cross-stack interoperability, and approaches to handling and analyzing both structured and unstructured data.

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This and other conferences are listed in my calendar of upcoming events.

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