open source communities

Linux.com: "Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world's most populous country have become a part of the open source world."

The Open Road: "Open source is a bit the same. There are some who pay for the 'full-price rooms/seats,' while others pay by sticking with a project for a long time, devoting either small amounts of cash or code..."

Polymorph: "Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities..."

Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities.

Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit.

I myself have joined in the guilty pleasure of kvetching about how this year's iteration of a given conference just doesn't have the same soul as some previous year.

Open Source communities are a mess and with CouchDB this is no exception. Luckily, our community is rather small, but there are things happening in all sorts of places that might or might not be obvious for everybody.

I try here, more or less regularly, to mention selected highlights from what I hear is going on in CouchDB-land. This Week in CouchDB is a working title and Week is a bendable term here.

On the Zend Developer Zone today, Andi Gutmans has written up a new post that, in light of a recent announcement from Microsoft about "going open source" with some of their products, asks what it means for the web and for the PHP community specifically.