How Software is Built

Interviewers: Scott Swigart, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee:Michael Tiemann - RedHat / President of OSI

In this video interview at OSCON 2007 we talked to Michael Tiemann - VP of Open Source for RedHat and President of the OSI.

We’ll talked to him about the following:

 

 How does a Distro get built... [3:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Differences between Fedora Core and RedHat Enterprise Linux [2:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Working with multiple distros. [3:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 What is mainline Linux? [1:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Making changes to the kernel - some stories... [4:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Christmas buying season and Open Source... [2:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The right to fork and Open Source. [3:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Source Code and the OSI [2:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 What makes something Open Source from the OSI's perspective [6:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Unpacking the Engineering process at RedHat [4:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 How does RedHat's engineering process and the five year horizon. [2:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Entire Interview (WMV) [37:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Entire Interview (MP4) [37:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Robert Bray

In this interview with Bob, Architect for Geospatial Products at Autodesk, we asked him about:

• Introduction of open source within Autodesk
• Role of project steering committees
• Decision to create an open source product
• Open source impact on closed source product
• Developer and engineer adjustments to open source process
• Differences between feature design in open and closed source
• Test and documentation for Autodesk open source
• Community contribution to open source projects
• Business reasons for creating open source products

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart , Richard Bowler

Interviewee: Matt Gibbs

In this interview with Matt, we asked him about:

• Approaching open and closed source SDL
• Development challenges for UI Framework and Services team
• Handling security within feature development
• Incorporating SDL into ASP.NET
• Launching multiple distributions with open source
• Testing against multiple operating systems
• Testing cycle for features
• Managing bug fixes and feature stability
• Following a development cycle
• Microsoft philosophy on product development

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart

Interviewee: Rod Johnson

In this interview with Rod, CEO of Interface 21 and founder of the Spring framework, we asked him about:

• Development methodology of Spring framework
• Contributors to Spring
• Selection of code and features for the Spring framework
• Ways in which developers support open source
• Open source development cycle
• Importance of technical support
• Code aggregation in open source development
• Choosing open or closed source within small businesses

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Ganeti (how do you pronounce that?) has launched.  This is virtual server management for Xen.  I’m looking forward to checking it out.  The announcement is here, and the project page is here.