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Hey folks! I just wrapped up leading a session at the Community Leadership Summit during AllThingsOpen 2025, and I wanted to share some of the insights that came out of our discussion about engaging silent community members in open source communities. The Challenge: Vocal Few vs. Silent Community Members One of the most common patterns we discussed was the classic 80/20 rule in community…
Hey folks, Jonas here writing again! I had a great time last week giving a talk at AllThingsOpen down in Raleigh, NC, and wanted to share some of the discussions I was a part of around AI and open source. For those who don’t know me, I’m the Head of Open Source Community Management over at VMware and I’m also the Executive Director at a non-profit called Hit Save! focused on…
This article originally appeared as a chapter in The Open Organization Workbook and on opensource.com . No one working in cloud and data centers should be surprised that organizations have changed how they run their IT departments. Applications are written and deployed differently, moving away from monoliths to microservices. Organizations operate their data centers by applying development…
This article originally appeared as a chapter in The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change and on opensource.com . When teams in the same organization—or even across organizational boundaries—start to collaborate, they will most likely realize that not all of their goals align. The IT team, for instance, might not have the same criteria for success as the sales team. Different teams have…
This is a multi-part blog series. This is part 2. As some of you quickly figured out when playing the ARG there’s also a conversational piece to this game, not just a standard puzzle that you solve on your own. Throughout the ARG you will converse with a chatbot (which I will not name to avoid spoilers) to progress through the game. I got the idea for this last year when playing the…
This is a multi-part blog series. This is part 1. 2 weeks ago I launched something I’ve been working on for a while - an Alternate Reality Game. For those of you who have never played an ARG before and wondering what I’m on about, read on! A little back-story; I love puzzles, riddles and mysteries. Of course there’s the satisfaction of solving them, but there’s just something about the…
I’ve been involved with and learning from the Docker community for a few years now and it’s been an interesting ride. Going from a small project to widespread use and enterprise support, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the amazing community as a Docker Blogger, Organizer and Captain . This post will share a little of my thoughts on the IRL get-togethers that are the Docker…
Lately I’ve been tinkering with home automation, and I wanted to see if I could do something smart with an Amazon Dash Button . They do have official IoT versions but the Dash ones are easy to hack into something more useful and are sometimes on sale for $0.99, so it’s definitely worth trying out. I have a vinyl record player hooked up to my Sonos via line-in, and every now and then…
In the past year and a half I’ve seen some really cool things come from people who are passionate about two things: Docker and Raspberry Pi . There have been contests, showing over 2500 containers running on a RPi 2 . We’ve seen some amazing stuff coming out from Hypriot to get up and running with Docker quickly on RPi. And not that long ago, Docker themselves took this more seriously…
This might come off as a bit of a rant, but the notion of so called vendor lock-in is something I hear constantly in the IT industry and I’m getting tired of it. TL;DR: Lock-in is just a choice of current state. Why is it silly? The concept of vendor lock-in is that if you buy a product you’re locked into that product’s features and functions, and therefore you might be missing…
This post was previously published on Codeship’s blog , reposted here. For anyone who’s been following the container community’s rise the past two years (after Solomon Hykes ’s famous five-minute presentation at PyCon ), you have surely seen many companies and projects spring up, offering really innovative ways of managing your applications. There are several projects around management,…
This is an ongoing comparison series between different publicly available operating systems focused on running some form of containers, trying to be as objective as possible but I’ll add my own commentary of course. I am not covering the different container technologies such as Docker, Rocket, LXC or others. There are no winners or losers, I leave it up as an exercise to the reader to decide…
It’s time to shake things up a bit. I’ve been blogging over at pureVirtual.eu for 4.5 years (wow, it’s been that long already?), and thought it was time for a refreshing change of scenery. The old blog will still live on and keep serving popular articles on VMware, EMC, Open Source, APIs and other stuff for an indefinite amount of time or until I get bored of paying maintenance.…
Contact methods in order of preference: jonas.rosland@gmail.com LinkedIn Schedule a meeting on cal.com Summary 20+ years building and leading open source communities at scale — from developer advocacy at Dell to heading global community management for the Tanzu portfolio at VMware, community leadership for Rocky Linux at CIQ and the Cosmos community at VAST Data, and now directing open source…