Continuing our discussions with this year’s Women in Open Source speakers,  we sat down with recently appointed GNOME Foundation Executive Director Stormy Peters.  We had a chance to discuss some history of GNOME on alternative platforms as well as efforts to get FOSS computers into the hands of school children in Mexico.

-Gareth

Stormy: Although you wouldn’t necessarily know it now, I have a degree in computer science and started out my career writing code. If someone had told me about open source software in college, I would have started out my career working on open source. As it was, I had to wait a few years to stumble across it.

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SCALE had the opportunity to sit down with the speakers for this year’s Women in Open Source Conference.  We began with Dru Lavigne and ended up speaking on a variety for topics including Dru’s thoughts on being a woman in the FOSS community as well as her work with the FreeBSD community and the BSD Certification Group.

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SCALE had the opportunity to speak with Joe Born, CEO of Neuros Technology about open hardware, DRM, TV Mashups, and their new Neuros Link device.

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Lisa Hoover of OSTATIC published an interview with Gareth Greenaway, the Operations and Community Chair of SCALE.  It’s very well written - worth a read.

Most people who are using a commercial Personal Video Recorder today are unknowingly using an open source-powered appliance. Unfortunately many aspects of these devices remain closed. There have been many efforts to offer a completely free & open alternative to these devices. One such effort is the KnoppMyth/LinHes project. SCALE had the opportunity to chat with the project leader for this open source media center project, Cecil Watson.

- Gareth J. Greenaway

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We asked Phil Dibowitz, one of SCaLE’s co-founders to write a guest post on the SCaLE Blog about the keysigning party he will be leading at SCaLE 7x next month. If you are interested in leading a Birds of a Feather Session (BoF), sign up here.

-Ilan Rabinovitch

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SCALE is fortunate to be able to use network equipment loaned by Extreme Networks at the 7th annual So CaL Linux Expo.  Extreme Networks uses Open Source Software in their products, so we thought it would be interesting to interview them.  Glenn Weinberg, Vice President and General Manager of Extreme Networks was kind enough to answer our questions.

SCALE: How did Extreme Networks get started?

EN:  Extreme Networks was founded in 1996 in the Silicon Valley at a key inflection point for the Ethernet industry, the creation of Gigabit technology with Quality of Service to meet the growing connectivity challenges including corporate enterprises who were transitioning away from ATM and telecom service providers who were dealing with the fast emerging Internet and converged services. Extreme Networks launched its first product, the Summit fixed line of Gigabit switches in 1997, and became a worldwide player in just a few short years, going public on the stock market in 1999.   The company now boasts 190 patents, thousands of customers and a rich history of providing innovation and network performance.

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The SCaLE team recently had an opportunity to speak with Jeremiah Gray of Intarcorp.  Jeremiah and Intarcorp publish “Hackett and Bankwell“, a educational comic about Linux, open-source, and free software.   Intarcorp is a Media Sponsor of SCaLE 7x.

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