{"id":89,"date":"2011-12-12T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-12-12T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:00:48","slug":"what-will-i-cover-at-redmonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2011\/12\/12\/what-will-i-cover-at-redmonk\/","title":{"rendered":"What will I cover at RedMonk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2011\/12\/09\/the-littlest-monk\/\">promised<\/a>, here&#8217;s some of the things I want to focus on. My interests are all over the map, so this is just a partial list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data &amp; analytics.<\/strong>\u00a0Whether the data&#8217;s big, small, or in-between, I love working with it to extract new insights and understanding how others are doing the same. I&#8217;m very interested in the ways people cope with and learn from huge amounts of data, whether it&#8217;s structured or unstructured. But even on the small scale, there&#8217;s a lot you can learn if you apply the right methods. My experience has given me the background in experimental design, data analysis, and statistics to do precisely that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IT management, virtualization, cloud, &amp; DevOps.<\/strong>\u00a0During my 5 years in Oregon, I was closely involved with sysadmins at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/osuosl.org\/\">Open Source Lab<\/a>. The OSL\u00a0hosts servers for major open-source projects including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/\">Gentoo Linux<\/a>\u00a0(prompting my relationship with them), the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apache.org\/\">Apache Software Foundation<\/a>, numerous other Linux distributions, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kernel.org\/\">Kernel.org<\/a>\u00a0&amp; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/\">Linux Foundation<\/a>. Interacting with the OSL folks on a daily basis gave me a deep interest in the technologies involved in managing and scaling servers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open-source software.<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ve spent the past 8 years working in OSS projects of all sizes, from 200+ (as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2011\/12\/09\/the-littlest-monk\/\">mentioned<\/a>) down to tens (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.org\/wiki\/\">X.Org<\/a>) or even just a couple of people (<a href=\"http:\/\/burrow-owl.sourceforge.net\/\">burrow-owl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/proteingeometry.sf.net\">proteingeometry<\/a>). Outside of those, I have a broader view of the free- and open-source software world through my participation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/flossfoundations.org\/\">FLOSS Foundations<\/a> group. I&#8217;ve got an insider perspective on how open-source projects operate and look forward to applying that here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community.<\/strong>\u00a0My positive and negative experiences leading Gentoo Linux and working with the Google Summer of Code have given me a great respect for the power of community and culture. It can make or break companies or open-source projects. For that reason, I plan to spend some time on the cultures of companies, OSS projects, and the communities around them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile.<\/strong>\u00a0It&#8217;s pretty clear at this point that there&#8217;s an inevitable flow toward open standards and technologies, even within closed app ecosystems. Furthermore, we&#8217;re seeing a continuing convergence of more and more functions onto single mobile devices and a migration of functionality to more mobile places. I&#8217;m also interested in the re-use of the same technologies in multiple scales and niches (e.g. web technologies like JavaScript and HTML5 used in apps for Windows 8, GNOME 3, and iOS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should be enough to give you an idea of my interests, but if you think I might want to hear more about what you&#8217;re doing, please do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/contact\/\">get in touch<\/a> regardless of whether it&#8217;s on the above list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"acc_license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"by-sa\" \/><\/a><\/div><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"><Work rdf:about=\"\"><license rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" \/><\/Work><License rdf:about=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Attribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Reproduction\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Distribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#DerivativeWorks\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#ShareAlike\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Notice\" \/><\/License><\/rdf:RDF>-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here&#8217;s some of the things I want to focus on. 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