2012-02-15T12:02:35Z http://jonas.lophus.org Jonas Haag jonas∂lophus.org 2012-02-15T12:02:34Z http://jonas.lophus.org/2012/02/the-adventures-of-a-pythonista-in-schemeland.html <p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/index.html">The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland</a> is a great introduction to the Scheme programming language and from a Pythonista's view. Also available as <a class="reference external" href="http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/TheAdventuresofaPythonistainSchemeland.pdf">PDF</a>.</p> 2011-12-08T18:23:09Z http://jonas.lophus.org/2011/12/08/thank-you-10gen.html <p>So I'm one of the <a class="reference external" href="http://blog.10gen.com/post/13885501875/announcing-the-mongodb-masters">MongoDB Masters</a> and therefore have been invited to attend the first MongoMasters Summit and <a class="reference external" href="http://mongosv.com">MongoSV</a> 2011 in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley).</p> <p>I really appreciate having been invited to the Masters program, particularly because it's so incredibly well-organized. For example I've been picked up at the San Francisco airport to be transferred to the hotel they've booked for all the Masters. I have been reimbursed for all travel costs which is very important to me at least (students usually don't have money to burn :-) I didn't even need to manage anything on my own, things just happened.</p> <p>I'm convinced <a class="reference external" href="https://twitter.com/meghanpgill">Meghan Gill</a>, 10gen's Community Manager, played a major role in organizing the Masters Summit -- Meghan definitely knows how to do her job.</p> <p>So does 10gen. 10gen is doing it right. I actually think 10gen's the first Free Software company that has such a &quot;key community members&quot; group in the first place, at least I'm not aware of anything comparable in the Free Software world.</p> <p>I think most people (me included) don't expect companies to maintain such relationships to key community members at all. But maybe we should because for a company that makes Free Software, having a great and actively evolving community is everything.</p> <p>10gen wants to make their community want to stay. They had at least some success with that so far -- I will certainly stay.</p> 2011-11-27T00:01:32Z http://jonas.lophus.org/2011/11/25/first-post.html <p>More useful posts will come soon. Stay tuned!</p>