• The wise writing from Dave Pollard about Un-learning to play. I find his let-self-change  concept both powerful and poetic. Change is a posibility most of the time.
• Dave also writes about building natural enterprise. How to make a living doing what is relevant.
• The road itself is inspiration: social media, online conversations, blogs, … whatever, just watch your steps.
• People like Crossfit-Hq demostrate the many niches available for meaningful, community-based business.
• Small changes, a word at a time, that invite to change and reflection, ecopreneur, entregreeneur, communities of practice, openspaces.

And from the experiences of people playing with money and free/open software:

• Running your company as an Open Source Project
• Software as a public good
• The meatcloud manifesto: men trying to tame infrastructures and meatclouds, and making money in the process.
• And learning from the errors of others, never forget that money changes everything.

When i firs heard of chef i got a litle worried about the possible damages to puppet as a community and as a project. It seemed weird to me to hear from chef on the #puppet irc channel and also weird were some of the opinions on the blogs of Chef’s evangelist (in particular one impliying bad behavior from Lak when he asked for money/contract to fix a particular issue).

In my opinion puppet is a well-behaved FLOSS project that is fostering community, writing code, and earning money. I’m glad to see those same worries of community hijacking being discussed in puppet-users. And even happier seeing the changes in licensing and focus that are underway at reductivelabs.

So, cheers for reductivelabs for keeping the good work and trying new roads to grow and prosperity. Let’s not repeat the Tla Tale.

You can read the (now old) news about Chef at The Madstop.