Open Source Convention
Posted by samc on July 24th, 2007Over 2,500 attendees are expected at theO’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., July 23 - 27. Tutorials and break-out sessions for programmers, designers, security experts are featured, with a healthy amount of debate about where open-source is headed and what issues it’s currently facing, says Wired.
Speakers include Chris DiBona from Google, Larry Wall creator of Perl, Guido Von Rossum creator of Python, Rasmus Lerdorf creator of PHP, Matt Asay from Alfresco, Brian Aker from MySQL, Mitchell Baker from Mozilla, and many others. There are some 14 tracks running in parallel so it’s difficult to cover the whole thing.
Some of announcements, articles, blogs, photos, and podcasts include:
- Google News lists stories from Wired, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, CNN Money and Eweek.
- Bloggers include; The Daily ACK, Sysadminblog, Ajax Hacking, Carolrutz, Dumbcoder, Carl’s Whine, Canspice, Patrick Tufts and O’reilly Radar.
- Dana Blankenhorn compares the top two linux shows, OSCON (this week in Portland), and LinuxWorld (August 6-9 in San Francisco).
Mappam is a new ad network that specializes in placing text ads on user mapping sites. The founders are Nick Black and Steve Coast, both are core members of Open Street Map. Mappam ads can technically be put on Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Multimap, OpenStreetMap/Openlayers maps like Google Sightseeing, ParkAtMyHouse and soon Platial. The site is powered by the Ruby on Rails web-development framework with a MySQL database running on Ubuntu Linux. - SourceForge announced the finalists in its second annual Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize open source projects which not only have the most supportive community following, as well as the highest quality, productivity and ingenuity. Finalists were chosen in 11 categories. Winners will be announced on July 26, 2007.
Ohloh.net is a directory of active open-source software projects. Here are some wireless projects. OpenWrt and Wifidog are embeddable captive portal solution for wireless community groups who wish to open a free Hotspot while still preventing abuse of their Internet connection. AP Radar is Don Park’s Linux version of Netstumbler. An 802.1X Supplicant runs on Linux, BSD, and Windows with support for WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i).
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced it is hosting a series of Interoperability Hack-a-Thons. It will focus on Single Sign-On (SSO) and begins Tuesday, July 24 at 1:30 p.m. in rooms D129 and D130. It will continue on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons in the lunch area.
“The OSA was formed to speed deployments of integrated, interoperable open solutions for business users,” said Barry Klawans, OSA board member and chief technology officer at JasperSoft. “The community, specifically the collaboration among all the ecosystem participants, is the backbone for these efforts and we’re looking forward to rolling up our sleeves, addressing single sign-on and having some good old fashioned fun at OSCON this year.”
source : dailywireless.org
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