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Visualizing OASIS Technical Committees 1 Jul 2013 | 05:28 pm
So what do we have here? This is a simple social network visualization, of OASIS Technical Committees. Each circle in this graph represents a single Technical Committee (TC). The size of the circle...
The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 2 12 Jun 2013 | 10:55 pm
In Part 1 of this series we looked at a model of product adoption and market share that had a special and valuable property: the parameters of the model could be derived from a single survey question...
Who wants to develop OpenOffice for Tablet? 29 May 2013 | 08:24 pm
One of the most common user questions I see on the Facebook and Twitter streams for Apache OpenOffice is “Do you have a iPad version?” or “Do you have a tablet version”? Although there are companies...
The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 1 13 May 2013 | 08:15 pm
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful” said G. E.P. Box of Box-Jenkins fame. Today we’re going to look at a model of market share, and I hope it is a useful model. One nice propert...
Mapping the ASF, Part II 6 May 2013 | 07:59 pm
In my last post I showed you one view of the Apache Software Foundation, the relationship of projects as revealed by the overlapping membership of their Project Management Committees. After I did tha...
Mapping the Apache Software Foundation 3 May 2013 | 08:01 pm
So, what do we have here? This is a graph of Apache projects and how they are related, by one definition of “related” in any case. Click on the image for a larger PNG version, or here if you would ...
A Tale of Two Cities 23 Nov 2012 | 07:39 pm
“When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.” That, in the words of John B. Bogart of the New York Sun, is a classic rule of press ...
LibreOffice’s Dubious Claims: Part 3, Developers 5 Nov 2012 | 01:43 am
(This post represents my personal opinion only. The standard disclaimer applies.) In previous posts I looked at claims made by LibreOffice, in project blog posts and press releases, related to the nu...
LibreOffice’s Dubious Claims: Part 2, Community Size 3 Nov 2012 | 05:31 pm
In a previous post I looked at how LibreOffice inflates its user and download stats, claiming to have far more users than it actually has. Several journalists took these claims at face value and repe...
LibreOffice’s Dubious Claims: Part I, Download Counts 31 Oct 2012 | 03:39 pm
The Claims I’ve recently read some implausible claims from the LibreOffice project, concerning their stats for downloads and users. (These two different statistics are unfortunately conflated in the...
