Inductive Bias

Yesterday I was invited to give a keynote at CiviCon.

Nothing to hide?

Netzwerkfrühstück: Open Source in der Verwaltung # Networking breakfast: Open Source in public admin (at German “Smart country convention” Berlin).

Playing with LLMs locally # After a talk by Nick Burch at Berlin Buzzwords I finally got started playing with LLMs locally.

How I was invited to give a keynote in Darmstadt # It was autumn 2009 at an ApacheCon in Oakland/ California: I asked one of my fellow ASF people what it would take to get him to visit Berlin.

Visiting (and speaking at) the German Bundestag # Many, many years ago, I invited Berlin Buzzwords keynote speakers to join me for lunch pre-conference.

Learning German in Berlin # So you have been living in Berlin for a while, maybe even for years – but you fail to speak German fluently.

Notes on meetup organisation # What feels like decades ago I went to a talk at FOSDEM.

Open Source, InnerSource, CRA?

Some useful OSPO links # https://todogroup.org/ … TODO group of Linux Foundation generally collecting material around OSPOs and getting people interested in the topic together https://github.com/github/github-ospo/?

How hard can it be: Open Source contributions # “Sharing is caring - if only more downstream users simply contributed to the open source software that they depend upon.” - a thought that has crossed my mind more than once in the past decades.

Reboot blogging?

Children tinkering, part 2 # Roughly a decade ago I wrote a short post about children tinkering.

A short, incomprehensive history of spam and counter measures # “… it should be clear that improvements in communication tend to divide mankind …” by Harold Innis in Changing Concepts of Time This post was triggered by multiple conversations in my big data

InnerSource Commons Board of Directors - a retrospective # In the last years I had the honour of serving on the InnerSource Commons board of directors.

When it takes a pandemic … # to understand the speed of innovation. 2020 was a special year for all of us - with “us” here meaning the entire world: Faced with a truly urgent global problem that year was a learning opportunity for everyone.

Apache Board of Directors - a retrospective # Last term I had the honour of serving on the ASF board of directors, better explained in context of the ASF governance structure.

FrOSCon 2018 # A more general summary: https://tech.europace.de/froscon-2018/ of the conference written in German.

DataworksSummit Berlin - Wednesday morning # Data strategy - cloud strategy - business strategy: Aligning the three was one of the main themes (initially put forward in his opening keynote by CTO of Hortonworks Scott Gnau) thoughout this weeks Dataworks S…

Apache Breakfast # In case you missed it but are living in Berlin - or are visiting Berlin/ Germany this week: A handful of Apache people (committers/ members) are meeting over breakfast on Friday morning this week.

FOSS Backstage - Schedule online # In January the CfP for FOSS Backstage opened.

My board nomination statement 2018 # Two days ago the Apache Software Foundation members meeting started.

An argument against proxies # Proxies?

FOSDEM 2018 - recap # Too crowded, too many queues, too little space - but also lots of friendly people, Belgian waffles, ice cream, an ASF dinner with grey beards and new people, a busy ASF booth, bumping into friends every few steps, meeting humans you…

FOSS Backstage - CfP open # It’s almost ten years ago that I attended my first ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam.

Trust and confidence # One of the main principles at Apache (as in The Apache Software Foundation) is “Community over Code” - having the goal to build projects that survive single community members loosing interest or time to contribute.

Open Source Summit - Day 3 # Open source summit Wednesday started with a keynote by members of the Banks family telling a packed room on how they approached raising a tech family.

Open source summit - Day 2 # Day two of Open Source summit for me started a bit slow for lack of sleep.

Open Source Summit Prague 2017 - part 1 # Open Source Summit, formerly known as LinuxCon, this year took place in Prague.

Open development and inner source for fun and profit # Last in a row if interesting talks at Adobe Open Source Summit was on Open Development/ Inner Source and how it benefits internal projects given by Michael Marth.

Note to self - slides for staying sane when maintaining a popular open source project # For further reference - Simon MacDonald has a great collection of good advise on how to stay sane when running and maintaining a popular open source project.

Async decision making # This is the second in a series of posts on inner source/open source.

Notebook - OSS office at Adobe # tl;dr: This post summarises what I learnt at the Adobe Open Source Summit last week about which aspects to think of when running an open source office.

Agile, inner source, open development, open source development # Last week I had the honour of giving a keynote at Adobe’s Open Source Summit EU in Basel.

Note to self: Backup bottlenecks # I learnt the following relations the hard way 10 years ago when trying to backup a rather tiny amount of data, went through the computation again three years ago.

How hard can it be - organising a conference # Setup a CfP, select a few talks, publish a schedule, book a venue, sell a few tickets - have fun: Essentially all it takes to organise a conference, isn’t it?

Berlin Buzzwords - Associated Events # Back in 2011 I had a weird idea: Berlin Buzzwords as a core event kicks off on Sunday evening with a Barcamp but closes on Tuesday evening.

I love FS 2014 # It’s that day of the year again: Time to buy flowers and chocolate for your beloved one.

FOSDEM 2014 # By now FOSDEM turned into some kind of tradition in our family: Since 2007 every year in February we are travelling to that one comfy B&B in Brussels for a weekend - not to take a closer look at the city but to attend (together with thousands

On being aggressivly public # If it didn't happen on the mailing list it didn't happen at all. ... with all it's implications this seems to be the hardest lesson for newcomers to the Apache way of development to learn.

Scientific debugging - take 2 # Back in - OMG was that really back in 2010?

Children tinkering # Years ago I decided that in case I got the same question for at least three times I would write down the answer and put it somewhere online in a more or less public location that I can link to.

Don’t dream it, be it # After two years in a row of receiving 120 submissions for Berlin Buzzwords from the usual crowd - young, white, male, caucasian - only this year we decided we needed to work towards increasing diversity.One piece in the puzzle was…

On geeks growing up # I’m a regular visitor of the Chemnitzer Linuxtage in March - at first going to talks learning lots of interesting stuff I didn’t know about like aspect oriented programming, strace, squeak, which open source licenses are best for dif…

Hello elasticsearch # First of all a disclaimer: I had a little bit of time left during the last few weeks.

Building online communities - from the 0MQ trenches # After seeing several talks on how open source communitites are organised at FOSDEM, on how to license open source software strategically at Chemnitzer Linuxtage and on how to nurture open source commun…

Wonder if you should switch from your RDBMS to Apache Hadoop: Don’t!

JAX: Project Nashorn # The last talk I went to was on project Nashorn - demonstrating the capability to run dynamic languages on the JVM by writing a JavaScript implementation as a proof of concept that is fully ECMA compliant and still performs better th…

JAX: Tales from production # In a second presentation Peter Roßbach together with Andreas Schmidt provided some more detail on what the topic logging entails in real world projects.

JAX: Logging best practices # The ideal outcome of Peter Roßbach’s talk on logging best practices was to have attendees leave the room thinking ``we know all this already and are applying it successfully’’ - most likely though the majority left thinking…