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OpenSourceWorld Report Jono Bacon reports on the co-located OpenSourceWorld, NGDC, and CloudWorld conferences.
Aug 17, 2009Last week I took the 20-minute BART ride from the East Bay over to Moscone West in San Francisco to visit what was once known as LinuxWorld and is now OpenSourceWorld, Next Generation Data Center, and CloudWorld all rolled into one event. Like many others, having been to previous LinuxWorlds, I was curious to see how this re-branding and grouping of events would pan out. LinuxWorld had been getting quite the panning (no pun intended) over the last five years or so, so could the new event cut the mustard and reel back in its once committed group of sightseers?
more »Red Hat's POSSE introduces academics to FOSS Professor's Open Source Summer Experience
Aug 03, 2009Recently, five college professors spent an intense five days with Red Hat employees and other members of the free and open source software (FOSS) community. Red Hat called the experience POSSE (Professors' Open Source Summer Experience). The goal of the week was to show how FOSS could be used in post-secondary education, and to create a community to further the goal.
more »Doghouse: Recycled Software Do not reinvent the wheel
Jul 31, 2009Others have walked a mile (or more) in your shoes.
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers
Jul 31, 2009Why are there so few female programmers on the open source scene? A discussion in the Ruby community reveals some unpleasant answers. In other news, the Uget download manager celebrates a comeback.
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Jul 31, 2009OSCON 2009: Opening keynote focuses on open government
Jul 24, 2009On July 22, O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly launched this year's OSCON conference with a challenge for open source advocates to get involved in the quest for open government.
more »Open Source for America Announced
Jul 22, 2009More than 70 organizations and individuals have joined to form a "unified voice" encouraging the U.S. government to support and participate in open source software.
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