Tune into this episode, a deep exploratory conversation between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting and Rinka Singh, Co-Founder, AccelerateFire shares his stories of Being a serial start-up-personDoing things outside of the day job, including starting the Software Process Improvement Network (BSPIN), BangaloreHow he got interested in quality, process etcThe experience of getting representatives from many organizations to come together and share dataSome of the driving thoughts behind the open source movement, and Linux, in particularCan the NIH syndrome be broken to help with opensource adoption?How an external [customer] trigger pushes internal adoptionWhat would be one overarching reason to use open sourceAbout the value proposition of superior performance for the lucene search engine, from his startupHow github is helping small companies and developersNeed for and possible implications of creating new ways of developing softwareZero cost reviews in open sourceTrends influencing the software development process, including the limitations of hardwareChallenges in computing posed by large volumes of data - and dark dataThe need to look beyond the von Neumann model of computingHis career advice to those aspiring for careers in IT or are looking at the next stage of growthRinka has conceived and is working on a Technology Startupcurrently early stage. He has previously defined and implemented product road-maps, managed multi-million $ contracts out of India and has participated in Industry Forums his company representative. His technology and domain experience is in the systems software and protocols which covers various processors (ARM, ATmega, x86, VIA, Alpha, Sparc, boards from Motorola, Arduino & TI), various OSs (VxWorks, pSOS & various flavors of Unices) and both Datacom (TCP/IP & IPv6 stacks, WAN & Routing protocols) and Telecom (ATM, ISDN, etc).His specializations include architecting, product and technical managementorganization management, delivery and people management .