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Justin Miller on how Mapbox runs like an open source project (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com has been running a series of interviews with OSCON speakers. In this article Justin Miller, a developer at Mapbox, talks with Michael Harrison.
[Michael] Mapbox is "running a business like you would run an open source
project." Can you elaborate on what that means?
[Justin] This is the meat of my talk, but basically, the organization is flat and open. People join in on projects based on interest and available time, or start their own projects based on an idea and the ability to convince a couple coworkers that it's a worthwhile effort. If you have an idea for improvement, talk is cheap and putting in the code to demonstrate its potential is preferred. It's a very exciting way to choose direction and participation and lets everyone engage based on their interests and skill set. And nearly everything we write, anything that's easily reusable by someone else, is completely open source.
Calls for Presentations
Tracing Summit 2014 Call for Presentations
There will be a Tracing Summit on October 13 in Düsseldorf, Germany, co-located with LinuxCon.eu. Registration to LinuxCon or CloudOpen is required in order to register for the Tracing Summit 2014. The call for papers closes August 31.CFP Deadlines: July 17, 2014 to September 15, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 20 | January 12 January 16 |
linux.conf.au 2015 | Auckland, New Zealand |
| July 21 | October 21 October 24 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2014 | Madrid, Spain |
| July 24 | October 6 October 8 |
Qt Developer Days 2014 Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| July 24 | October 24 October 26 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2014 | Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| July 25 | September 22 September 23 |
Lustre Administrators and Developers workshop | Reims, France |
| July 27 | October 14 October 16 |
KVM Forum 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 27 | October 24 October 25 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| July 30 | October 16 October 17 |
GStreamer Conference | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 31 | October 23 October 24 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| August 1 | August 4 | CentOS Dojo Cologne, Germany | Cologne, Germany |
| August 15 | September 25 September 26 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
| August 15 | August 25 | CentOS Dojo Paris, France | Paris, France |
| August 15 | November 3 November 5 |
Qt Developer Days 2014 NA | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 15 | October 20 October 21 |
Tizen Developer Summit Shanghai | Shanghai, China |
| August 18 | October 18 October 19 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Beijing, China |
| August 22 | October 3 October 5 |
PyTexas 2014 | College Station, TX, USA |
| August 31 | October 13 | Tracing Summit 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| August 31 | October 25 October 26 |
T-DOSE 2014 | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| September 1 | October 2 October 3 |
PyCon ZA 2014 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| September 1 | October 28 October 29 |
2014 LLVM Developers' Meeting | San Jose, CA, USA |
| September 2 | November 11 | Korea Linux Forum | Seoul, South Korea |
| September 7 | October 4 October 5 |
Iberian minority language groups reach out to open source | Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| September 8 | November 10 November 14 |
21'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| September 10 | October 8 October 10 |
X Developers Conference | Bordeaux, France |
| September 11 | October 6 October 9 |
Perl::Dancer Conference 2014 | Hancock, NY, USA |
| September 14 | December 27 December 30 |
31st Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: July 17, 2014 to September 15, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 18 July 20 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2014 | Cambridge, England, UK |
| July 19 July 20 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| July 20 July 24 |
OSCON 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 21 July 27 |
EuroPython 2014 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 26 August 1 |
Gnome Users and Developers Annual Conference | Strasbourg, France |
| August 1 August 3 |
PyCon Australia | Brisbane, Australia |
| August 4 | CentOS Dojo Cologne, Germany | Cologne, Germany |
| August 6 August 9 |
Flock | Prague, Czech Republic |
| August 9 | Fosscon 2014 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 15 August 17 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014 | Munich, Germany |
| August 18 August 19 |
Linux Security Summit 2014 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 18 August 20 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 18 | 7th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 18 August 19 |
Xen Developer Summit North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 19 | 2014 USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
USENIX Security '14 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
LinuxCon North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
CloudOpen North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 22 August 23 |
BarcampGR | Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| August 23 August 31 |
Debian Conference 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
| August 23 August 24 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany |
| August 25 | CentOS Dojo Paris, France | Paris, France |
| August 26 August 31 |
ownCloud Contributor Conference and Hackathon | Berlin, Germany |
| August 27 August 30 |
LaKademy 2014 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| September 2 September 5 |
LibreOffice Conference | Bern, Switzerland |
| September 5 September 7 |
BalCCon 2k14 | Novi Sad, Serbia |
| September 5 | The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| September 6 September 12 |
Akademy 2014 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| September 7 September 12 |
CppCon | Bellevue, WA, USA |
| September 11 September 13 |
Free and Open Source Software Expo and Technology Conference | Orlanda, Florida, USA |
| September 12 September 14 |
Kiwi PyCon | Wellington, New Zealand |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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