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I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break as the first couple weeks of January 2021 have been pretty wild, from insurrections to new COVID strains. In cloud native land, the CNCF recently released its annual report on all the work we accomplished last year. I recommend everyone take an opportunity to go through the [ ]
Late last year marked the 4th year anniversary of the formation of the CNCF and me joining The Linux Foundation: this also marks 4+ years since I joined the @linuxfoundation, after experiencing crazy startup growth/success at Twitter, I was looking for something more NOT startup was somewhat suckered in by @jzemlin to join a [ ]
Over the years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about and working on open source communities from bootstrapping projects out of corporations (or broken communities), to starting brand new open source foundations. 'Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern The most important element of government, [ ]
Last month, we held KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon in Shanghai, one of the largest open source events in China. Recently, we published the conference transparency report detailing how the 3500 person event went but I d like to share a couple take aways as someone who has been traveling to China quite a bit the last [ ]
Note: this article was original posted on https://opensource.com/article/19/4/ways-support-sustain-open-source To make sure open source continues to thrive, we all need to find ways to sustain the communities and projects we depend on The success of open source continues to grow; surveys show that the majority of companiesuse some form of open source, 99% of enterprises see open source as [ ]
There has been a lot of discussions lately on open source sustainability and honestly, it’s something I think about on a daily basis through my current role at The Linux Foundation and myself being an open source contributor and maintainer for ~20 years. Open Source Tip Jars There has been a trend lately to have [ ]
After a week in Shanghai all I can say is wow, I m truly humbled by the open source and cloud native community in China that showed up to support our first conference in China. I first want to thank the amazing CNCF events team and most importantly Janet Kuo and Liz Rice who acted as [ ]
What an M A surprise in the tech world yesterday with IBM picking up Red Hat, the jokes on Twitter were of course on point: Nobody got fired for buying Kubernetes Alexis Richardson (@monadic) October 28, 2018 To expand on Alexis Richardson s funny joke above, the clouds wars are no joke amongst the hyper scale [ ]
While I’m not a huge fan of arms races, I have a unique perspective amongst open source foundations by having involvement from all the major cloud providers so I have an interesting vantage point in seeing a trend amongst them in ramping up developer advocacy hiring over the last couple of years. Furthermore, this hiring blitz [ ]
What a crazy week helping host our annual European community conference in Copenhagen it s been wild to see the community grow since the CNCF took over the stewardship of the conference (thank you Joseph Jacks, still remember those conversations we had in the early days): Somehow the crowd at #KubeCon is simply stunning pic.twitter.com/MMzXgfSARg [ ]