Since Denver in early May I've been running a timer to limit my work day to eight hours. I've stuck to it pretty well, long enough that I have a few observations.

Some of the expected positive outcomes are there: I have more time to attend to non-work tasks like …

This is a followup to More on Maintainership and OpenStack Denver Summit Reflection. Together these are starting to form the foundation of a series on open source collaboration in the face of the climate emergency and political and social inclusiveness. Starting...

I've decided, if possible, to stop flying to technology …

OpenStack is in the process of merging several of its mailing lists into one, openstack-discuss. The hope is to break down some of the artificial and arbitrary boundaries between developers, users, operators, deployers, and other "stakeholders" in the community. We need and want to blur the boundaries. Everyone should be …

Last week I attended the OpenStack summit in Berlin. Of the several summits I've attended, this one was the most laid back. I imagine other people had different experiences, but my experience involved no surprises, no scandals, I neither got yelled at nor yelled at someone, and at least so …