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John Mark Walker

Linux.com

John Mark Walker has been a Free Software agitator and contributor for over a decade. At VA Linux Systems, he survived an IPO and learned the ins and outs of Open Source politics. He then went on to stints at No Starch Press, GroundWork, IDG World Expo (as LinuxWorld conference director), and Hyperic.

John Mark views the opening of software technologies as an inevitable expression of long-term economic trends driving down the price of commodity software and all commoditized knowledge, for that matter. His great quest is to figure out how to leverage the economies of scale driving the big picture into a micro-level view of successful community development for individual projects and companies. You can find his musings on Open Source at his blog, There is no Open Source Community.

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10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008

The Evolution of Community

Administration, Emerging Topics, Linux, Programming
Location: Portland 255

Joe Brockmeier (Novell), Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.), Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd), John Mark Walker (Linux.com), Jeremy Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.) Moderated by: Joe Brockmeier

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Over the past ten years nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today. For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they've built? Read more.