[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Q: You’re giving a keynote on ‘Mistakes Were Made.’ Without
tipping your hand on the actual talk, can you give us an idea of
what we might expect?“A: I make mistakes all the time. One thing that I have always
loved about open source culture is how we tend to think that if we
just tried a little harder, or if we knew just a little bit more,
we’d totally be able to fix that. “That” being pretty much
anything. There’s an admirable do-it-yourself ethic, well-deserved
mistrust of vendors, and — I think — a problem. We could do
better. Particularly around communicating and recovering from
failure. There are some great thinking about handling mistakes and
failure from the business world that people working with open
source should import, hack and make our own. So, I’m going to talk
about what I’ve learned over the years, and tell some great stories
about failing from my friends.”