Thoughts on Open Source

Fighting feature bloat in open source

I've grown up in open source, I learned how to code in open source and my thinking about software was founded on the principles of open source. Needless to say as things went

Mautic

Automation Days: Brazil Edition

As my evening winds down I am sitting here putting the finishing touches on a couple of talks I'm about to have the privilege of delivering at two different Brazilian Automation Days. This

Saelos

Saelos Sunday: The Little Red Hen

Well it's that time again, for all you eager individuals waiting all week for the Saelos Sunday post. Here it is. Although I must admit I am anxious to see how many of

Saelos

I Need Your CRM Feedback

This is a bonus Saelos mid-week post, but that's because I need your help and I need it urgently! I'm doing a quick feedback loop about CRM platforms and I realized there's no

Mautic

Commencing Core Monthly Meetings

I am so thrilled to be able to write up the follow-up from the first Mautic monthly core meeting. Before I give you the details about the meeting itself (which will eventually live

Saelos

Desire Paths

Yesterday I finished up my somewhat exhaustive study on my latest topic of interest. And by exhaustive study I mean I went spelinking. (See what I did there? It's like spelunking, only for

Open Source

Improving Usability with Simple Javascript

If you read my blog much or listen to the podcasts you know I tend to talk a lot about active listening. (In fact, I just referenced this Sunday.) But the idea of

Mautic

Changes to Mautic Leadership

Recently the Mautic community shared an incredibly important blog post on their site. I'd recommend you read the full post for yourself but I will give you the summarized version here to make

Open Source

Apples, Oranges, and Communities

"You're only focused on the developers." The comment stung but only for a second. I was deep in conversation with a few Mauticians when this supposed truth bomb was dropped in my lap.

Saelos

Saelos Sunday: Take Notice!

As I hope you have come to expect, Sunday is our day to explore what new and exciting things are happening with Saelos, the open source CRM. Last week we looked at download

Open Source

Fact-Based Feelings

Recently I posted on Twitter a personal observation about growing older and learning to appreciate the value of disagreement and even of a heated discussion. Maybe I’m growing up or maybe I’

Community

The Power of Passionate People

Stop for a second. I could almost bet money that you read this title and instantly thought about open source communities. Of course it’s entirely possible that inclination towards open source is

Business

Microsoft, Github & Changing A Reputation

Today another headline has captured the minds of many in open source as it seems that yet another open source centric company has been acquired by a private one. Only a couple weeks

Open Source

Saelos Sunday Stuff

Here we are on another weekend, and it sure feels like they come fast and furious these days. I don’t know if it’s just me or if time is actually speeding

Mautic

Creating MarTech Glue

Yesterday I published a post about Filling In The Marketing Gaps and I hinted at returning to a topic I have grown increasingly excited about. I want to share just a few more

Marketing

Filling In The Marketing Gaps

One of the biggest features and benefits of an open source platform like Mautic is the extreme amount of flexibility and customization that is possible. Open source gives incredible power to each business

Mautic

Marketing Automation & CRM

One of the more recent announcements in Saelos was in regards to the first plugin written for the Saelos platform. As you can probably imagine, this plugin focused on the relationship between Mautic

Marketing

Marketing Automation Microservices

Recently I was on the phone with a good friend of mine, he’s not directly involved in a technology sector and as such it makes our conversations incredibly fun, light-hearted, and many

Open Source

Saelos Sunday Update 2

Here we are on the weekend again; and I love the weekends. Partly due to the fact that the schedule tends to be more relaxed, and partly because this means I get to

Mautic

Mautic 3 Proposed Timeline

The next major topic everyone is very interested in relating to Mautic 3 is the proposed timeline for when things will be worked on...and maybe more importantly when they’ll be available

Mautic

The Business Benefits of Mautic 3

Longer posts are always an undertaking. It involves a lot of thought and attention to detail to make sure the information I share is clear and easy to understand. There’s a lot

Mautic

Mautic Release Strategy 2018

The Mautic community has a history of various release schedules and timings as we’ve sought to find the best strategy that works for our devs and our users. This tends to be

Marketing

Headless Marketing Automation

Yesterday I released a blog post entitled Looking Ahead at Mautic 3. This blog went into great detail on why I believed a Mautic 3 should be considered next on our product roadmap

Mautic

Looking Ahead to Mautic 3

Mautic 1.0 was released out of beta on March 10, 2015. Then Mautic 2.0 was officially released on July 5, 2016. And that's where we have continued to make improvements. This

Saelos

Saelos Sunday Update

Well this is an exciting update to share. Saelos was announced and released on April 15. Today is April 29, exactly 2 weeks later. Because everyone is busy I’m sure you haven’

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