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By Ben, on November 5th, 2008
 On November 4, 2008 a great wish came true for most of the United States and the rest of the world: a great alliance of liberals, progressives, new voters, young voters, men, women, blacks, hispanics and people who wanted change in general rose up and dropkicked George W. Bush and his neoconservative cronies out of power in Washington D.C.
So now it is November 5. It’s the morning after and instead of being just the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama is now the president-elect of the United States. Which means that the time has finally come for those of us who cannot vote to start thinking about what we can expect in the way of change. Of course we all know about the big things that have been central themes in the campaign, like the economy and the war in Iraq. But for us who work in the technology sector it is also interesting to wonder what changes might be on store.
Now, I am not a real political pundit. So I might be talking out of my ass in the rest of this article. But nevertheless what follows is, in no particular order, the topics that I think will be interesting to watch in the next few years in the United States under new management.
Continue reading Yes We Can….the day after
By Ben, on October 15th, 2008
I just got done reading Jettro’s post on refactoring your library. And still being in the vacation mood, it reminded me of an idea that surfaces in my so-called brain every now and then: the public library for the twenty-first century.
Much like Jettro I have the habit of accumulating odds and ends of documentation over time (sometimes including entire books which tend to go out of date). Which means that I tend to run out of space after a while. At the same time all this documentation suffers from the problem of not being very portable, which means it doesn’t fit very well with our information at your fingertips age. All in all a digital form of storage available at any time and possibly to a large audience (or at least available to me from any place) would be far preferable. However, that solution runs afoul of copyright laws and treaties.
Looking at it in a more general way, there is a general contradiction between the historical rights of authors and the needs of information consumers in the modern age. In the following sections I will attempt to provide an overview of the reasons and interests in this situation and what I think would be a good idea for our modern age.
Continue reading Redesigning libraries completely
By jettro, on September 27th, 2008
 Some time a go I was talking to Freddie. We were talking about my previous article discussing open source : Open source, fashion or commodity. He asked what has changed in the last two years in open source landscape. One of the things that came to my mind is that I got the feeling that open source is becoming more professional. Together we started thinking whether this was good for open source in general or not.
The result of that conversation is this blog item, read on if you are curious …
Continue reading Does professionalization kill open source?
By jettro, on September 20th, 2008
 Everyday I hear the words open source coming by more than once. Alright, I admit, open source is a big part of my work. In the ICT world talking about open source is very fashionable at the moment. If I am thinking about my situation at home or with my friends, it’s different. Open source, my wife does not have a clue and she does not care. Maybe I should talk in the past. A few months a go things changed. I moved from my previous employer to a small software company (jteam). The bigger company provided software like MS Office for use on one pc at home. Therefore my wife got used to having MS Word around. Now that I left that firm I had to de-install that software. Of course I had to give her an alternative. We could have bought a license of at least a 00 euros. At work I was using OpenOffice more and more. Therefore I suggested my wife to install it at home as well. Immediately my wife had questions like:
Isn’t that open office thing a lot harder to use?
Can I still open the sam documents at home as I can at work?
 This uncertainty was not surprising me, and I was prepared. I had open office installed on my machine so I could easily show it to her. I also explained to her that we use open office on a lot of different computers using windows, linux and of course my Mac. Another thing is that I am around on a daily bases, so I can always help her if she has problems. We downloaded the complete suit and within a few minutes (Yes I have a pretty fast internet connection) her laptop was prepared for first use. Now, after she has been using it for a few weeks, she had no complaints, so everything is working. Now I can proudly say that my wife is using open source software.
So can we concluded open source is becoming mainstream? Not just yet, read on to learn why.
Continue reading Open source, fashion or commodity
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