Stormy Peters

High context cultures value personal relationships over process.

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about why we have so few women in open source and web development and how to encourage more women to join.

So now that I work at Mozilla, I figured it was time to develop a “web app” just to make sure I understood it all.

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Can forking a free software project enable you to regain your internal motivation to work on a project?

“How do I raise enough money to be able to spend all my time working on my favorite free software project?”

Planning a hackfest is not an easy process.

I got back from GUADEC and was ecstatic to find a letter from the IRS saying that Kids on Computers is officially a US federal 501(c)(3) organization!!!

[caption id=“attachment_1579” align=“alignleft” width=“300”] [/caption] I watched How to Train Your Dragon yesterday and I really enjoyed it.

Here’s a writing tip from a reader: do not make things too easy for your protagonist.

Recently I met someone who insisted on describing every department in his organization, all the acronyms and what they stood for.

Typically free software projects have lots of very smart developers.

I’ve recently watched a few people struggle to get things done in online projects.

When it comes to web applications, I think free and open source software fans are settling for “free” instead of looking for the freedom they would get from open source.

In 2003 I gave a talk in Malaysia.

The GNOME community is extremely diverse when it comes to nationality.

Chris Blizzard introduced me to Clay Johnson.

The GNOME Foundation’s mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone.

I “multitask” all the time.

Etherpad is being released as open source software because the team is moving onto Google Wave.

Since I’ve started talking about Would you do it again for free?

Eight of us from the GNOME Marketing team got together in Chicago for a hackfest earlier this week.

This morning I tried to attend a webinar, The Open Source Community vs.

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Chris pointed me at this cartoon as a comment to my It’s not about not offending post and I keep finding myself looking at it.

When talking about women in free software or political correctness in general, we seem to focus on saying things that “don’t offend” the minority group.

While I’ve learned not to procrastinate, the truth is that I do procrastinate every once in a while.

One of the hardest things to learn in management is how not to do it all yourself.

Bounties or grants are often suggested as a way companies can pay for work on free software projects.

If you follow any of the links to Amazon in this post, any purchases you make will send a referral fee to the GNOME Foundation.

One of the most common questions I get asked, right after “What do you do?”

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People go to conferences to see friends, meet people and learn new things.

Against my dad’s best advice, I’m going to admit that I don’t feel like I’m the best person to give a “State of GNOME” talk.

I recently started investigating how GNOME could fund projects with grant money.

At OSBC last week I saw a great presentation by Dries Buytaert on how to build community.

* Kim Weins is the Senior VP of Marketing at OpenLogic.

*Dave Neary gave me his speaking slot at OSiM USA.

Companies and communities is a topic I’ll speaking on at SCALE.

Most people used to the proprietary software world, with no experience in open source software, are amazed that anything gets done.

Some friends and I are setting up a computer lab in an elementary school in Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico.

I get asked a lot what I do, exactly, as executive director of the GNOME Foundation.

Next week I’m speaking at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference where the theme is “free software for innovative business.”

According to Stephen Vaughan-Nichols there will be 2.4 million more Linux desktop users by the end of the year.

I get asked a lot about my “Would you do it again for free?”

Sandro Groganz interviewed me at OSiM - his questions were all about GNOME Marketing.

I now work for a nonprofit board of directors, so when one of my friends told me that she just joined a nonprofit board and took a class on what it means to be on the board of directors, I got pretty excited.

Creating effective presentations is really hard.

Social norms govern whether you are willing to help a friend move or cook dinner for your family.

501(c) organizations are US non profit organizations. 501(c) is actually the name of the IRS tax code that defines non profits.