Recently, we’ve been working with a lot of public agencies (mostly in the transportation sector) who are interested in setting up developer conferences or app contests. While we are big fans of both conferences and contests, our main point of advice has been get away from thinking just about conferences & contests, and focus on Continue reading
Instead of talking about Open Source Software, should we be talking about Public Software? Hypothesis: The most successful open source software projects are marketed to software developers and system administrators because those are the only people who understand and really value the open source nature of a piece of code. Open source is not a Continue reading
The US National Weather Service has a lot of weather to watch! They have sensors all over the continent, and in space, ranging from simple thermometers to orbiting satellites. When weather happens (and let’s be honest, weather is always happening, it’s happening on me right now) it happens fast — how does the NWS take Continue reading