François Charette

I am committed to Open Source since the 1990s. I have decades of experience in various IT roles in engineering and customer-facing activities for large enterprises, especially in the financial and public sectors. I have joined Red Hat in June 2022 as Solution Architect in the German team. I studied physics and mathematics in Montreal, Canada, and thereafter obtained a doctorate in history of science and technology. This hybrid background in science and humanities influences to this day the way I look at technology in today‘s society.

    Review of 2023

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    OpenSourcerers 2023 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting articles covering a wide range of topics. There are 52 articles available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s products and other OpenSource technologies. Your Opensourcerers blog editors followed along of course! As we come from varying backgrounds […]

    Beyond Hype: How Open Source, Open Science and Open Data fuel innovation

    The latest book by the Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure (The MIT Press, 2023) inspired me to write this blog entry, partly as a review, but also as an opportunity to share some reflections about its implications for the domain of open source […]

    Approaching the Kubernetes Bridge – Multi-container Apps with Rootless Podman

    In the year 2023 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Docker and the 9th anniversary of Kubernetes. Container technology has now become mainstream. But recent advances in the Podman ecosystem prove that innovation in the container world is still happening at a strong pace. Podman 4 was released in February 2022 and brought considerable improvements […]