Tag: open source

October 6th, 2015

How Open Source transformed my career

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[ This post is also published on opensource.com ]

I was introduced to open source through immersion, when I learned C and Perl in college. Compared to previous programming languages like BASIC and Pascal which I had learned only from textbooks, I learned C and Perl in the context of the Internet. I would ask […]

February 27th, 2012

Announcing Collabograte!

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I’m happy to announce the open source Collabograte project, an integration platform for collaboration components!

https://github.com/kartiksubbarao/collabograte/

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/collabograte collabograte@googlegroups.com

Collabograte helps you integrate collaboration components in your IT environment. Currently, it supports the following software packages:

Cyrus IMAP ejabberd INN MediaWiki OpenLDAP Postfix Sympa WordPress

Collabograte provides a reference virtual machine implementation that includes […]

April 25th, 2011

Open Source, Giving Freely, and Self Awareness

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[ This article is also published on opensource.com ]

In a July 2010 post on opensource.com, Jonathan Opp wrote about the nature of giving and participating in a gift culture/economy. One point that he mentions is the benefit of giving freely, without strings attached. I’d like to expand on that, since I think there’s a […]

August 31st, 2009

Open Source and Interdependent IT

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In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey presents a maturity continuum that progresses from dependence, to independence, and then to interdependence.

Dependence, Independence and Interdependence

Covey concisely observes: “Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people […]

March 27th, 2009

Mental Models of Commerce and Community

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Commerce and community play important roles in open source ecosystems. Companies are great at building capital and targeting it towards focused goals through products and services. Communities are great at bringing together like-minded people from all walks of life and advancing their common ideals. Together, commerce and community can be an unstoppable force for turning […]

Kartik Subbarao

How Open Source transformed my career

Announcing Collabograte!

Open Source, Giving Freely, and Self Awareness

Open Source and Interdependent IT

Mental Models of Commerce and Community

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