Joseph Ottinger

232 points

Raleigh, NC

I am a writer, musician, programmer, husband, and father. I read way too much, and probably write too much as well - but my passion is transfer of information, so that's okay. :)

Open Minded Author

Authored Content

Team operating principles: the open source way

Improve your online relationships with a dose of empathy

Humans have always formed communities. They are necessary for support both physically and, according to psychologists, emotionally as well. Until recently, though, the…

The feedback loop can improve your game

It's football season and I'm trying my hand at helping coach my son's team. He's surprisingly good at defensive end and I am obviously very proud. It's all what you would…

Gnome 3 vs. Gnome 2 vs. change

Exploring different desktops is a good thing. I’ve recently converted to GNOME 3 ("hallowed be its Name in all the earth, etc.") and I admit freely to enjoying it (a lot). I…

Lab of the dead

I’ve wasted a few hours finishing an odd game called “ Lab of the Dead,” a game in which you play a scientist doing experiments on zombies in an attempt to find a cure for…

OpenROV: Open source robotics seek sharing, travel, gold

OpenROV is a project that provides plans and software for a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Currently, it's a series of prototypes, with the goal of a fully-realized design…

I miss E-mail

I miss asynchronous conversation. I miss the ability to have an actual thread of thought preserved in something less ephemeral than memory, or in some chat log somewhere on…

Authored Comments

jottinge

23 Feb 2012

I miss E-mail

Paul, fair enough! There's really no problem with that - there's room for all kinds. For me, though, I don't like the inability to develop longer thought lines. I like the focus things like twitter provide, definitely, but once given the thesis that twitter forces upon us, I prefer to be able to work through it in detail.

jottinge

16 Feb 2012

Does open design hardware have a place in manufacturing?

There's a lot of room for open source hardware design - for example, I find myself lusting after an open source guitar. One example is http://www.praxisguitars.com/; there're others (including http://www.zoybar.net/main and others - more than I expected, really!)