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The professional blog of VM Brasseur, concerned primarily with open source, strategy, management, business, and the overlaps between them.

Engineering management / careersSoftware / engineering practiceLinux / Unix

’15’20’25
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127 from 31 Oct 2011 to 1 Jul 2026
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now and then (4 in the last year)
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2026 4

  1. Domo Arigato, Open Roboto 🤖
  2. Domo Arigato, Open Roboto 🤖
  3. I have availability for advising/small contracts
  4. I have availability for advising/small contracts

2025 4

  1. Updating an old Ubuntu to a supported version
  2. Updating an old Ubuntu to a supported version
  3. On with the show
  4. On with the show

2024 6

  1. Let’s Open Ag-Tech
  2. Let’s Open Ag-Tech
  3. 📖 Book Update: The Turning Wheels of Publishing
  4. 📖 Book Update: The Turning Wheels of Publishing
  5. 📖 Open Source Contributions and the Risk of IP Exposure
  6. 📖 Open Source Contributions and the Risk of IP Exposure

2023 9

  1. Hire me!
  2. Hire me!
  3. Book update and cover reveal
  4. Book update and cover reveal
  5. Prepare to Forge Your Future with Hacktoberfest and Pragmatic Bookshelf
  6. Prepare to Forge Your Future with Hacktoberfest and Pragmatic Bookshelf
  7. The latest (good!) news about the book
  8. 📖 Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
  9. 📖 FOSS License Compliance Enforcement

2022 4

  1. VS Code Extensions for Writing
  2. 📖 Open source relicensing: A risk for your business
  3. Farewell, Wipro!
  4. Announcing the Open Source Series at Pragmatic Bookshelf

2021 10

  1. Hello, Wipro!
  2. 📖 FOSS’ killer app: Licensing innovation
  3. Put down the torch, pick up the scalpel: The Future of the FSF
  4. 📖 Software and Copyright: It’s Complicated
  5. Hire me!
  6. 📖 The difference between Free Software and Open Source
  7. 📖 The importance of standards for your business
  8. Coming soon: A new book about FOSS strategy in business
  9. Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks
  10. 8 tips for attending virtual conferences

2020 10

  1. Personality in Open Source
  2. An Easy Introduction to Open Source Projects
  3. Announcing the FOSS Governance Collection
  4. Spread the word: Marketing your FOSS project
  5. Farewell, Juniper Networks
  6. The Real Costs of Open Source Sustainability
  7. A Brief Introduction to Copyright and Licensing
  8. FOSS Community interview for Brandeis University
  9. Meet People Where They Are: Four Ways to Spread the Four Freedoms.
  10. my resume

2019 3

  1. My travel habits
  2. Don’t just do something, stand there!
  3. The problem with Amazon and Open Source isn’t Amazon

2018 11

  1. Commons Clause is a Legal Minefield and a Very Bad Idea
  2. Open source is NOT a business model (and your business will fail if you think that it is)
  3. Farewell freelancing, Hello Juniper Networks!
  4. Redis Labs and the Questionable Business Decision
  5. Open Hardware: Good for Your Brand, Good for Your Bottom Line
  6. The Past, Present, and Future of Open Source
  7. FOSS as a Part of a Corporate Sustainability Plan
  8. Do I have to use a free/open source license?
  9. Using Slack with IRCCloud
  10. Announcing “Forge Your Future With Open Source”: The first book to detail how to contribute to open source projects
  11. The OpenStack identity crisis

2017 18

  1. Jump-start your career with open source skills
  2. Concerns about the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) initiative
  3. Google, can we talk?
  4. Don’t hire team members like they’re consultants
  5. Entering the Free and Open Source emerging market
  6. Advice for new speakers
  7. Avoid failure when supporting free and open source communities
  8. How your company can build and keep community trust
  9. Practical business reasons to support open source communities
  10. Google’s disappointing response to the “manifesto”
  11. What to know before you open source an internal project
  12. I have time availability for another client! Is it you?
  13. Changing the language
  14. Public Speaking Resources
  15. Organise your job hunt with Trello
  16. Thinking Outside the Big Green Box
  17. No, I will not “lighten up”
  18. 3 ways to improve your hiring process

2016 5

  1. On the occasional unpleasantness of community
  2. How to record a presentation screencast video using Quicktime
  3. You don’t get to decide what you’re “worth”
  4. Uploading a Video to Internet Archive
  5. How NOT to Hire an Entirely Remote Workforce

2015 5

  1. Ops/DevOps Learning Resources
  2. Open Source Leadership Succession Plan?
  3. Adding a Slack network to your znc IRC bouncer
  4. OSCON Portland, 2015
  5. Badass: Making Teams Awesome

2014 7

  1. OSCON 2014
  2. San Francisco Perl Mongers: 12 months, 50% growth
  3. Moving On From The Errors of GitHub and The Ada Initiative
  4. A CEO is a Leader: The Recent Mozilla CEO Kerfuffle
  5. Dear Mister Independent Recruiter,
  6. Five Tips for Better Cover Letters
  7. Announcing Documentation for the Internet Archive S3 API

2013 10

  1. The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers: Part 3, The Suggestions
  2. The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers: Part 2, The Business
  3. The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers: Part 1, The Data
  4. Announcing the Perl Companies project
  5. Rename Perl 5? Marketing: UR DOIN IT WRONG
  6. I’m in the Market for a New Job
  7. Putting Away My Pitchfork: The Yahoo Remote Worker Announcement
  8. Is it OK to apply at a company which doesn’t excite you?
  9. Four Questions To Answer For Every Project
  10. Improving Perl’s New Programmer Outreach

2012 12

  1. Stop Hoarding Knowledge
  2. ‘Fail’ doesn’t have to be a four-letter word
  3. Common Resume Mistakes
  4. Managers: It is NEVER OK to be a jerk
  5. Increasing the Role of OSCON in Community Education
  6. Program Like a Pixar Story Artist
  7. Open Source: Why Can’t We Just Make It Easy On New Contributors?
  8. Staff Quality Deserves the Same Care as Software Quality
  9. Rant: I Am Not a Cat Herder
  10. Book Review: “The Information Diet” by Clay Johnson from O’Reilly Media
  11. Technical Job Postings: Know Your Audience
  12. Book Review: “Process Improvement Essentials” by James R. Persse, PhD

2011 9

  1. At Risk: An Online Service is Sometimes Neither Online Nor Serviceable
  2. Online Services I Find Worth Paying For
  3. It’s Called Marketing for a Reason
  4. Rethinking Education Requirements in Tech Job Postings
  5. Email Overload? Reclaim Your Inbox, Don’t Banish It
  6. Take The Red Pill: 8 non-programming books you should probably read
  7. It’s About Needs.
  8. Unsuck Your Meeting
  9. Watch this space