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Today is the 4th of July. What does it mean to you? Joni Douglas writes "Do we ever reflect on the hardship and terror that the early Americans must have lived through day after day? Do we truly understand the hopes and dreams that lay secretly hidden away in the hearts of the people back …
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Community Metrics in Context In late 2011 I started working for DISA on the Forge.Mil project. Forge.Mil is a really great concept that was born out of the need for a change in the Department of Defense concerning software development and application life-cycle management. Some the concepts that attracted me to Forge (that is …
I am writing you today that I am fed up. I am fed up with being fed up. I have spent more time using the backspace key today than any other single letter. I am only on the third sentence but there could have been a book already. I have leaned forward in the chair …
From my friend Ronald Batdorf We need consensus building not just compromise. We know from science that changes between steady states in natural law come at predetermined tipping points but to understand these tipping points we have to know what we are looking for as the end result. However, getting to the end results doesn’t …
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I got up this morning early to go into work to meet and mingle with people in my company. I realized when I got to work *early* that it was raining and that I did not feel like walking a mile to talk about things I am doing at work. So, I decided to actually …
The Cohenization Project 