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Save the Date for OSCON, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California July 20-24, 2009. In its eleventh year, OSCON looks at sustaining, applying, and expanding Open Source to change the world. Join over 3,000 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. Early Registration opens in March. Be sure to sign up for the OSCON newsletter for all the latest developments. Remember to put OSCON 2009 on your calendar.
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Open Source Experts
Van Lindberg
is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate ? from ?lawyer? to ?engineer? and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van?s current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…
Tyler Mitchell
is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.
Todd Ogasawara
is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.
Tim O'Reilly
is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.…
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Open Source in the Enterprise
An O'Reilly Radar ReportUsing open source in the enterprise ? the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive ? especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.
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Learn Open Source Programming
Open Source Programming Certificate
The course series targets students who want to acquire the skills needed for programming on any Linux or Unix platform. The Open Source Programming Certificate series is comprised of five courses that span programming skills from intermediate to complex. Students learn the core technical skills necessary for a complete understanding of programming using open source operating systems, languages, libraries and databases. Enroll today!
Open Source News & Commentary
Four short links: 19 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 18, 2009
Economic Stress Map Outlines Recession's Stories (AP) -- The Stress Index synthesizes three complex sets of ever-evolving data. By factoring in monthly numbers for foreclosure, bankruptcy and most painfully unemployment, the AP has assembled a numeral that reflects the comparative pain each American county is feeling during these dark economic days. Fascinating view of the country, and I wish...
Four short links: 15 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 15, 2009
Whither Sockets? -- ACM Queue article on how sockets as a model for network programming have become an obstacle to where networking is going. All of these calls have one thing in common: the calling program must repeatedly ask for data to be delivered. In the world of client/server computing these constant requests make perfect sense, because the server...
Hackers wanted! Scholarships available to coders who'll come to journalism and help save democracy
By Brian BoyerMay 8, 2009
Guest blogger Brian Boyer is a hacker journalist who writes about the intersection of technology and journalism. He's worked at public-interest journalism site ProPublica and is now at the Chicago Tribune, building their new News Applications team. It's not news that journalism is in crisis. CNN turned newspapers into first-day fishwrap and Craigslist killed the business model. Solutions are...
Results from Wolfram Alpha: All the Questions We Ever Wanted to Ask About Software as a Service
By Andy OramMay 6, 2009
Software as a Service, known in earlier decades as Application Service Providers, upends the relationship between computer users and software. I'm seriously tempted to say that Wolfram Alpha takes the SaaS model to its extreme. So Wolfram Alpha's chances at scaling the heights of fame should force us to stop for a moment and run our own calculations concerning the value to us of data integrity, reliability, privacy, and innovation.
Protecting Code
Intellectual Property and Open Source ? "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone ? even lawyers!" ? Lawrence Lessig
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