‘Business’ is often seen as a dirty word when talking about open solutions – whether that be open access, open data or for me open source software. It’s amazing that people always seem to think that the two things don’t go together…but of course for anything to survive in any practical sense, someone has to … Read more
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog piece – sorry, I’ve not had all that much to say of late! So I thought I would have a bit of a friday afternoon think and see if there was something loitering around in my brain. Lately work has been very process driven – the … Read more
When I was just a little girl, TV introduced me to the concept of the ‘civil servant’ through teams on quiz shows like Master Team and Busman’s Holiday. The civil servant teams were always made up of stereotypes – dull, gray men in suits. I remember thinking that it must be the worstest, dullest job … Read more
Just back from the very hectic FAM10 conference and the RAPTOR project board meeting in Cardiff. RAPTOR is looking great by the way – have I mentioned that before? 🙂 It’s now time for me to start putting some serious head time in to the future of Shibboleth and where the Shibboleth Consortium takes the … Read more
I was reading an old favourite of mine last night (A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham) and was struck by a list at the back of the book which listed all of the poems and songs quoted in the book, cited the copyright owner and expressed that permission had been … Read more