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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Britten Martin

In this interview with Britten Martin we talked to him about:

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Robert Bray

In this interview with Bob, Architect for Geospatial Products at Autodesk, we asked him about:

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart , Richard Bowler

Interviewee: Matt Gibbs

In this interview with Matt, we asked him about:

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Comments (0) Posted by campsean on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart

Interviewee: Rod Johnson

In this interview with Rod, CEO of Interface 21 and founder of the Spring framework, we asked him about:

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Comments (2) Posted by campsean on Monday, September 10th, 2007

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: John McCreesh - Open Office

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John McCreesh

In this interview with John who is the Marketing Program Lead for Open Office we asked him about:

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Comments (6) Posted by campsean on Sunday, August 5th, 2007

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: James Reinders - Intel

In this video interview at OSCON 2007 we talked to James Reinders - The Chief Evangelist for Intel’s Software Products Division.

We’ll talked to him about the following:

 
icon for podpress  James Role at Intel [0:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Some of the Software Products produced by Intel [1:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  How Intel integrates the community into the process of Q/A, etc [1:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  How does the development model differ when Intel builds a product for the open source community [1:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Intel's announcement at OSCON 2007 about a new open source release [2:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Impacts of Open Sourcing Threading Building Blocks [1:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  What are some rationales for not Open Sourcing a project? [3:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Parallelism and Open Source / Closed Source [2:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Building applications for Closed Source vs. Open Source ecosystems [1:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  VTune and the Development Process for it. [3:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Q/A Process Around VTune [2:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Full Interview [15:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Comments (0) Posted by campsean on Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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Just walking through reading it but here is a interesting study by the University of Victoria on code review processes in Open Source Projects.

http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/Rigby2006TR.pdf

Some of the research questions are:

    What types of review does a project use?
    Why are patches rejected?
    Who performs the review?
    When are reviews performed?
    How long do reviews take to perform?

Etc.

There is a ton of interesting data in the study from a breakdown of the Linux “Pyramid of Trust” method, two reviewer model that Mozilla uses to the voting model used by Apache.

Well worth the read.

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart, Richard Bowler, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Marc Miller

In this interview, we spoke with Marc Miller about his views on the current state of open source software.  Marc works for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and in January, Marc took on a role as the open source software evangelist in the AMD Developer Outreach organization enabling Linux kernel and application developers to develop optimized code using both AMD and 3rd party tools and resources. In his role as a software Alliance Manager for AMD 2001-2006, Mr. Miller played a significant role in developing a Linux marketing strategy with a focus on integration of AMD technology with software tools developed by the open source community and industry partners. Throughout his career at AMD, Marc has been a key contact for open source developers wishing to work with AMD, and has been an open source ambassador for AMD, helping to coordinate outbound and inbound communication between AMD and Linux developers.

In this interview Marc talks about:

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Comments (0) Posted by scottswigart on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007