First week on the job

August 27, 2007

So, I’ve now been at my new workplace (opensourceriskmanagement) for a week. Well, not quite. I was only *there* (in Durham) for 2.5 days last week. Since last Wednesday evening, I’ve been in San Jose, CA, attending meetings with current and prospective clients, and doing code audits. My Black Duck experience today was less than 100%, in that the server environment wasn’t set up for my code scan, the server crashed twice (necessitating reboots both times), and I really didn’t get going until 2:30. I’m going to have to stay another night here - so I will have been away from home for 8 days during my first two weeks!.

I don’t want to be doing this every week, but I do have to say it’s been a rather exciting first week. I wish I could say more, but I can’t. This is probably the most frustrating thing about the job - I’m meeting some interesting and powerful people, and learning about some very interesting behind-the-scenes things going on at very large companies, but I can’t *write* anything about any of it.

I’m used to writing about issues at work, but that’ll need to stop, at least with respect to naming names. To the extent that I’m able to share some of my more interesting experiences, I will, but I don’t expect to be able to do that too much, at least to start with.

Overall, there’s quite a lot of potential here, though, which I’m very excited about. I’ll also add that if you’re at a company that uses open source software in your products, and you’d like to have some expert auditing and assessment of your risks and compliance with open source licensing obligations, drop me a line.