Posts about Open Source Software as of March 24, 2009

Tim Gowers has an interesting post on the problem of scaling up the Polymath project to involve more contributors … time-frame of the project. The history of open source software suggests that building a large … of contributors likely grew faster than open source projects like Linux and Wikipedia. In that sense

Embedded Systems Conference – Learn Today. Design Tomorrow … , and Open-Source Software   (and many more) Register on our website: www.embedded.com/esc/sv

MapAction just released an excellent mapping guide for the humanitarian community. Authored principally by Naomi Morris, the guide comprises four chapters that outline a range of mapping methods suitable for humanitarian field word. The first chapter serves as an introduction to humanitarian mapping

This SXSW panel was great from an entrepreneurial perspective, especially with Kaiser Kuo’s insight into Chinese entrepreneurialism and how American entrepreneurs can partner with Chinese companies to enter the Chinese market. Robert Scoble has the rockstar fanfare from the SXSW crowd,

Microsoft’s many open – source faces CNET News, CA Any big company will both compete with and collaborate with open – source software , … through Microsoft’s efforts to get open source right. … Read More Via Open Source News

Why Recession is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open Source Strategy eWeek, … and associated services are making open source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org … More Via Open Source News

RE 2 : Abolishing Misunderstandings Newmobilecomputing.com Open source software ~= everyone has permission to read and use the source code . Free software ~= everyone will always have permission to read and use the source code . A small … Open Source News

Today’s guest post is yet another excellent offering from Erich Doerr , updating his analysis on the NCAA Tournament … , outside of his basketball writing , Erich does consulting work for major software products by day and has started a fledgling sports-themed Open Source software initiative

The Google Summer of Code TM 2009 is on and applications for the WordPress aspect of the project is in full swing with student applications now … your head in the coding sands. Who wouldn’t want that? This year, Google has 150 free and open source … to work closely with the top software engineers, developers, and experts from around the

The BitNami Project was created to help spread the adoption of freely available, high quality open source web applications. BitNami aims to make it easier than ever to discover, download and install Open Source software such as document and content management systems, wikis and blogging software. The BitNami Redmine