Open Source and Open Innovation with whurley

“whurley brings a great deal of open source knowledge and credibility to BMC.”

"whurley joins Qlusters as CTO with deep experience in leading key open source projects and driving important technology innovation."

" I had a blast listening to whurley and I know you will as well. My recommendation is to listen to this more than once."

"The uses for the technology are unlimited, especially as cell phone hardware catches up with the ideas of the innovators."

"Using the ColorAid application, which has yet to be released, a person runs their finger across the screen of the mobile phone and the name of the color is displayed on the left side of the screen."

"Hurley, also known as Whurley in the industry, and his team are harnessing the power of emerging technologies and making them accessible on your cell phone."

"Into this market, a new Austin game company, Chaotic Moon Studios, has launched an app called 'The Quiet Game.'...Parents on long road trips, you're welcome."

"Just the one name adds a bit of mystery to the Chief Technology Officer of Chaotic Moon Studios..."

"Augmented reality interactive technology uses live or taped video and adds some explanatory data to it so the user can better understand content, such as the names of the people or buildings in the video."

"I talked with William Hurley, who is better known as 'whurley' on twitter and everywhere else on the social nets at the recent Twestival at the Molotov Lounge on Austin's trendy West Sixth Street District and we talked about his latest venture called Chaotic Moon."

"...whurley has hit one out of he park with his new software venture, Chaotic Moon. He is spinning out brilliant new game apps for mobile platforms and resurrecting apps that haven’t made it yet but are on the verge of brilliance."

"The Open Source community has many influential and important people. Yet some individuals tend to hold a bigger megaphone than the rest of us. Some of these people are well recognized while others exist in open source niches."

"a cult hero among open-source aficionados. Whurley speaks of 'the interwebs,' he uses words like 'coopetition' and 'augmented reality,' and talks about open innovation."

“The party seems like the best approach. We are not heavy on marketing or pushing ourselves into booths,” whurley said. “We are not about getting 5,000 people at the party. We are about getting the right five.”

"William Hurley, better known as Whurley, is an Austin tech celebrity, but visit his R&D firm to discuss the future of augmented reality and his rather passionate call for better AR hardware."

"William Hurley, known to his fans online as “whurley,” is a longtime AR advocate in the high-tech community. He recently left his tech-industry job to focus full time on developing new AR applications."

"This award is an important aspect of giving back to the technology community in Austin. The winners showcase four examples of incredible work being accomplished in Austin"

"Whurley says there will be a general need for content-management tools to simplify the AR experience"

"Could we sometime soon be seeing whurley zipping down the halls of Microsoft on his beloved mode of transportation--his five-foot-long green skateboard?"

"An expert in open source technology, told me by email that he frequently receives drawings of himself from artists who have seen him speak."

"He's regarded in the public tech realm as a guru of open source"

"Even still, Hurley may have a few points, which are hard to focus on given all the hype."

"But out of this controversy a new website, an idea was born, to use crowd sourcing as a way to get the city's website redesigned"

"He calls himself an 'Evil genius,' but I’m only convinced about the second part."

"Hurley, who's known in tech circles as whurley and considered a leading voice in the open-source community, said he got the idea after hearing about the Web site controversy."

"The three took an interest shortly after learning of the new Web-based programming model, saying they would like to see it succeed as an alternative mobile dev platform."

"Each year at the festival, Hurley has worked from 4 a.m. till after midnight. As a result, he's never been to a session of BarCampAustin. He hopes that'll change."

"First, I recommend making sure that you have one individual who clearly defined person is the ringleader. For preDevCamp, this person is whurley."

"whurley ist langjähriger technologischer Visionär und ein Befürworter von Open Source."

"Later, as I got to know whurley better, I learned that he is literally a virtual crystal ball into the future of technology."

"whurley — is one of the developers in charge of organizing PreDevCamp. He also had a hand in starting iPhoneDevCamp..."

"whurley has decided to dispel the myths in his InfoWorld blog about Cloud Computing."

"Now William Hurley, better known as Whurley, an open source software advocate whose day job is at BMC Software (BMC) says he wants to take it a step further."

"a visionary systems theorist, skateboarder, and self-proclaimed evil genius whurley is all about connecting people and encouraging involvement in collaborative projects so great things can happen."

"we actually just discovered that his corporate AMEX card actually just says 'whurley' like 'mclovin'"

"The Boy Scouts should say that open source is the perfect tool to teach Boy Scouts ... the value of collaboration."

"It has been particularly quiet since former CTO William Hurley left to become chief open source strategy architect at BMC."

"He's going to fill us in on not being an open source evangelist"

"If Apple makes the iPhone more enterprise-friendly, I can guarantee we'd be one of the first to show support for the product,"

"BMC's Chief Architect of open source strategy talks about community, his role as a connector, and the benefits and limits of skateboard politics."

"As the former CTO of open source management company Qlusters and co-founder of the Open Management Consortium, he has the expertise."

"It's about directly interacting with customers in how you can apply open source to build better products."

"He's as comfortable in the boardroom as on his long green skateboard."

"whurley they've got you running around like some kind of spam bot trying to get myspace friends."

"William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he'd love it even more if he could write software for it."

"Has the open-source operating system gotten anyone laid, ever? The consensus: No."

"BarCampESM is being organized by BMC's Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy William Hurley (aka whurley)"

"At the OSCON event in Portland, Oregon this week, Hurley revealed what the company has been working on."

"I was in an Irish pub in downtown Portland, contemplating ordering my third beer of the evening, when a force of energy dressed in black and carrying a very large skateboard shouted my name."

"Adobe donated its space, Yahoo Inc. is picking up the tab for one of the meals, and other local businesses and technology companies are chipping in with food, T-shirts, iPhone accessories and other resources."

"So there you have it. One of the companies that I thought least likely to be involved in open source is actually knee deep in it."

"Call it putting a positive spin on Steve Jobs' positive spin."

"Developers demand more freedom, not less. They want clear, practical leadership, not bombast."

"Giovanni is talking about trying to get a shot of William Hurley on stage at Mix 07 with the Pussycat Dolls and suddenly I think: What The Hell Happened To The Enterprisey Vendor Formerly known as BMC?"

"It's a positive sign to see them acquiring talent versed in the collaborative nature of open source."

"Today's datacenters need a software-based solution that can leverage the cost advantage of commodity, standards-based computing without adding administrative costs or compromising on the high availability, performance and agility capabilities offered by proprietary legacy systems."

"Systems management is a very old, somewhat stale segment of the software industry."

"openQRM is the world's first open source systems management platform."

"This isn't a shift in the development model for the user; it's a shift in the adoption model and go-to market strategy for the companies."

"For systems management to work there needs to be more open source services,"

"There is no open-source systems management play right now."

"The Nessus announcement provides evidence that projects need community supporters or they must go elsewhere."

"At the review meeting, the head of Internal Audit complained that whurley had no right to access the systems"

"Make no mistake, we are in the midst of an information warfare conflict which we have not been fighting."

"Then, out of nowhere, a sniper opens fire in your direction."

"A few days ago, Symbiot Security released news of a controversial new defensive computer security service."