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About two months ago, I embarked on a new employment adventure. I really enjoyed my previous role in the Alfresco open source community (PDF), but my imagination was captured when a friend told me about Evernym, and their mission to help individuals control their online identities. This post briefly describes our goals ...
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Part of the fun of being a product manager at Alfresco is the open source component of our business model. Product managers need to thoroughly understand the game they are playing, and open source software businesses differ from proprietary companies in important and nuanced ways.
The most fundamental decision that a business makes is in ...
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I have a large family, and live at the top of a large hill. There are a couple of days each year that the snow is too slick to get up the hill without 4-wheel drive. I got tired of sliding my minivan into the curb, so I bought a 2011 GMC Yukon XL K1500. ...
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I finished my graduate degree last fall, and I knew it was time to upgrade my server. I haven't really touched it since October 2012, and I have grown increasingly paranoid that my server will get hacked due to the out-of-date web applications. So I finally carved out a weekend and got to work. Most ...
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I joined the Alfresco Product Management team about a year ago with the goal of helping Alfresco clarify our strategy around Alfresco Community Edition. I wanted to make it easier for adopters of Alfresco to benefit from the open source product, and easier for Alfresco to invest in further open source development. I did a ...
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Though a day late, I am publicizing our September release of Alfresco Community Edition. Yesterday we pushed out Alfresco Community Edition 201509 EA, which contains the 5.1.b builds of the Alfresco Platform and Alfresco Share. This release contains no new features, and a lot of bug fixes. Though still an Early Access release, our ...
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Our last release of Alfresco Community Edition was at the end of March, so I should update you on our progress towards the next release. You have probably seen our announcements about releasing a number of modules to Enterprise Edition, but we have also been busy on enhancements to Alfresco Community Edition. Our plans ...
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Since closing our latest round of funding in August 2014, Alfresco has increased our pace of growth. At the same time, our community of customers, partners, employees, open source contributors, and developers have also been more enthusiastic and engaged. During Alfresco Summit 2014, I mentioned that we were working to restructure our community ...
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I recently replaced my aging Thinkpad with a Dell M3800. I selected it over the 15" MacBook Pro after spending almost a month with the MacBook. It is the nicest laptop I have ever had, and I am not the only one to highly recommend it as a Linux laptop for developers. My machine ...
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I have been surprised at the adoption of OSX by developers; it seems to have become the default choice, especially for open source savvy web developers. I find it especially odd when open source advocates tell me how they love free-as-in-freedom, but just can't give up their OSX. People frequently express surprise that I use ...
