Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher did a nice writeup on our Kraków, Poland presentation. Hopefully, the momentum will continue to build for Kraków as a technology hub in Central and Eastern Europe. As always, the Kraków…
Update on the open source ‘miracle’ paper: It has been accepted at the HICSS 2010 conference track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access and Open Communities. The paper now features the more sedate…
After spending July in Krakow, Poland visiting companies, startups, and universities, I am truly impressed with the Krakow tech scene. Together with a colleague at Cisco Systems Poland, Ramon Tancinco, I have put together a…
Thanks to a recent discussion on slashdot, I learned that the entire editorial boards from at least three journals have resigned to start new journals that are open, or lower cost: Journal of Algorithms Topology…
For most of June, I was a visiting researcher in the Informatics division of the Swedish Business School, Örebro University. Thanks to the group’s rigorous, precise daily schedule of lunch times and coffee breaks (fika),…
Robin Teigland at the Stockholm School of Economics and Anders Lundkvist were kind enough to organize a meeting of local social media experts at the offices of Springtime, a Swedish PR and communications firm. I…
In partnership with the Department of Technology at the City and County of San Francisco, I’ve been studying the deployment of new applications using open source. We looked at three projects (including the recoverysf.org site),…
The open source platforms I admire the most, and are most useful for business, are the ones with the largest communities behind them. For open business platforms, it’s not just the contributions to the core…
The sabbatical year plans are coming along nicely. You can follow the latest updates on our Allen World Tour 2009-10 Itinerary page. So far, I have four official university visits lined up: Swedish Business School,…
It’s official. I’ve been named a Fulbright scholar during my 2009-10 sabbatical year. The host country will be Portugal, specifically the Azores islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. At the University of the…