The business of Open Source

15 Sep 2004

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I'm only three weeks into a year-long contract working on an Open Source project (KnowledgeTree), and part of this is figuring out how the company (Jam Warehouse) will make money providing the impetus for the project, and also how we'll work towards getting contributions from other service providers and community users of the project. I need to figure out just how much I can talk about in public, but I imagine this is something I'm going to talk about quite a bit in the next few months. So far, we've had pretty good response on development-for-hire (and fed back to the community) and on documentation, but are these renewable sources?

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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