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Open Coral – users and projects

By On January 1, 2012 · 17 Comments · In dashboard, Ecosystem, network, Open Coral, Qt, research

Here’s some initial ideas for the database structure regarding several tables/objects such as user, projects, blog and mailing list messages. Note that this is just first iteration and most likely will contain oddities and fails (in multiple levels). Let it be just a starting point for future ideas. Below is a database defined with a [...]

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Unified Universal Open Source Dashboard

By On October 10, 2011 · 18 Comments · In community, dashboard, Ecosystem, Open Coral, open source

What if open source projects would have possibility to use unified dashboard instead of creating one for every project? What if anyone could see what’s the status and history of each package?

What if we would have single entry point to browse project (and packages included in it) details such as

bugs history and details, [...]

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Reuniting hackerminded Tampere

By On September 19, 2011 · 12 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, MeeGo, meego network finland, open source, Qt, Uncategorized

Tampere has a lot of great activity concerning open source, hacker spirit, talent, determination and creativity. I’ve been lucky, since I’ve been involved in many of them (and still am). A lot of activities are taking place in parallel in wide variety of communities. Tampere has hosted a lot of big (in Finnish scale) and [...]

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Network Programmers and Switchers

By On August 25, 2011 · 17 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, Qt, research, Understand

I’ve been a fan of Castells[1] ever since I read his trilogy The Information Age [2][3][4]. When I started to think about my PhD around a year ago about open source ecosystems, I stumbled upon Castells latest theories in a great book “Communication Power”[5]. His theory of networks and communication inspired me and I decided [...]

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Developers – refers to what?

By On August 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Ecosystem, MeeGo, Participate, Qt, research, Uncategorized, Understand

Discussions around (open source and other) ecosystems and communities often include word ‘developer‘. Developer does this and that, developers are part of the community, developers need tools, they create apps, etc. Evidently, the word ‘developer’ refers to wide scale of roles and functions. I’ve been doing my PhD research about open source ecosystems and interviewed [...]

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Hello World! (or community)

By On December 24, 2010 · 5 Comments · In common, community, finland, MeeGo, meego network finland, network, suomi

Well…where should I start? Before jumping into experiences and lessons-learned, some background information about me and the community (MNFI, MeeGo Network Finland). My name is Jarkko Moilanen aka kyb3R.

This first entry will be rather long because I have to gather some history into it. I’ll try to keep it as short as possible. I’m [...]

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