A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community

"Which is not to say that open source isn't still remarkably geeky and willing to celebrate that personality attribute. SourceForge did offer free tattoos to the first 10 people willing to sport an open-source themed design, an offer that we're unlikely to see at a Gartner conference. Nor can I imagine most IT conferences offering session titles like Damian Conway's "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy!""

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