CodeWorks 2009: Recap
Submitted by Keith Casey on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 11:31
CodeWorks 2009 is over.
Before I go any further, you have to understand the undertaking here...
By comparison, imagine your last major project launch. In the last few days, there are always those last few tweaks, those last few problems, those brief moments of panic... which turn into a sense of calm and relief afterwards.
Well, CodeWorks was a little different. Instead of that sense of calm and relief afterwards, we packed and headed to the next city to do it all again: Seven times in 14 days. Luckily, I only did the first three cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Dallas) as staff and was in DC as an attendee.
The Good
Motivation for Contributing to Open Source?
Submitted by Keith Casey on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 04:00On my personal site last week, I talked about Contributing to Open Source projects in a variety of ways ranging from helping with documentation to writing code to just finding and talking about the tools you find useful.
I talked about it without considering a simple question that - luckily - Dennis Crane of Dr Explain asked:
Keith, why [do] you help and contribute [to] open source projects? What's your motivation?
It's a very good question and the answer should sound familiar to quite a few people...
php|tek 2009: Rafael Dohms on PHP in Brazil
Submitted by Keith Casey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 21:00Rafael Dohms is one of the lead organizers in Brazil's PHP Community. He spends a few minutes talking about what they've done to grow and improve their community in recent years.
php|tek 2009: Michelangelo van Dam on PHP Testfest
Submitted by Keith Casey on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 21:00
The slides Michelangelo mentions are available here: "Preparation for PHP Testfest 2009"
php|tek 2009: Eli White on Community, ZendCon, etc
Submitted by Keith Casey on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 00:39At php|tek 2009, I managed to corner Eli White - Community Manager at Zend - to get some thoughts about php|tek, the community, and what he's preparing for ZendCon 2009.
How do you measure 'contribution'?
Submitted by Keith Casey on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 05:00In the past few weeks, I've been working fast and furious at getting web2project to our v1.0 milestone. As part of that effort, I track open issues, problematic modules, community feedback via the forums, death threats via all methods, and other related aspects. And somewhere along the way, it led me to ask a seemingly simple question:
How do you measure an individual's contribution?
So you answer:
Free as in Will
Submitted by Matthew Turland on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 15:47Also known as: Let's See How Many PHP Advent Posts I Can Link In One Blog Post.
Someone once asked J. D. Rockefeller the question, "How much money is enough?" He gave the answer for the ages: "A little more." To paraphrase this, here's a more direct quote: "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
