Author Archives: meshedltd

FLOSS Weekly 470: Processmaker

Simon co-hosted FLOSS Weekly 470 which was an interview with Processmaker, a BPM system with an AGPL-licensed core that’s proprietary for enterprise use and an Apache licensed visual designer.

Simon mentioned:

Simon built a short slideshow for InfoWorld with some of the highlights of the first 20 years of open source. Take a look here.

20th Anniversary Slideshow

FLOSS Weekly 469: nanomsg

Simon hosted FLOSS Weekly 469, interviewing his former colleague Garrett d’Amore on the nanomsg MQ library project and more.

FLOSS Weekly 467: Aragon

Simon co-hosted FLOSS Weekly 467, covering the Aragon project. It’s a blockchain-based system layered on Ethereum using smart contracts to support distributed ownership and operation of a company. The project is also implementing distributed political discourse, especially in support of LiquidDemocracy.

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FLOSS Weekly 466: Open Mainframe Project

Simon co-hosted FLOSS Weekly episode 466 with Randal Schwartz, interviewing representatives of the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project.

The show is short because they spent over half an hour helping the guests with their video and audio setup. A hint to future guests: the instructions Randal sends out in advance really matter!

FLOSS Weekly 463: Linkerd

Simon co-hosted this week’s episode of FLOSS Weekly, which explored the Linkerd and Conduit projects. Both are provide a service mesh for load balancing and micro-service discovery in cloud computing.

This article on the Open Education Consortium’s Year of Open site highlights his views on software freedom.

Open Education Consortium

You’ll recall Simon was re-elected to the OSI Board after a year’s absence to satisfy term limits. Following the resignation of the excellent Allison Randal to focus on her PhD, he has now been re-elected as OSI President by the Board. More details can be found in Allison’s article.

Simon’s article explaining why the Facebook license combo used for React.js and much more is a problem was published by the Red Hat OpenSource.Com site today. Because our articles are supported by Patreon Patrons and not reliant on artificial scarcity to pay the bills, we were able to offer Red Hat the article in response to the one by Facebook’s outside counsel yesterday. A win for the patronage economy!

Read and respond here.

FLOSS Weekly 448: Hiawatha Web Server

Simon co-hosted FLOSS Weekly 448, featuring the Hiawatha web server and associated projects.