Are you ready for open source infrastructure?

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Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Hey Adam - that's what the open source
infrastructure is all about!

Hey Adam - that's what the open source
infrastructure is all about! 12/17/2004 06:29 PM

Imagine my delight w hen Adam Rifkin wrote....

Kragen recently said to me that

X HTML tables are the new CSV, and they're better than CSV because they have escaping. Also there's nicer viewers for them but that's besides the point.

It occurred to me that the use of modular XHTML for semantics is not a fad; rather, it points to a trend that Tantek Çelik calls microformats.

In my post on The Web Way, I mentioned having dinner with Tantek, which led me to rule 6,

Where it's useful, they should embrace microformats, a/k/a lowercase semantic web.

Tantek provides a compelling case for how The Awesome Power Of XML is best harnessed through tiny XML dialects usable for specific purposes. I agree; I've noted in my cata blog post (and the accompanying comments) that RSS is the single-biggest-real-world-useful example of TAPOX, and RSS is useful because it is tiny (and therefore easy to embed in applications as an input/output format).

Tantek talks with enthusiasm about the philosophy of microformats:

1. Keep the formats simple. Make them easy to learn and use. As Kragen noted, using an XHTML dialect gives you escaping and presentation control, making it easy to embed such formats in web pages with minimal effort.
2. Pave the cowpaths. Only create a new format to serve an existing application.
3. Get rough consensus and running code. Implementation in scripting languages such as PHP, Python, and Perl is paramount to adoption.
4. Get adoption by "real people". Only then will semantic (x)html move beyond theoretical discussions.

Tantek also talks with enthusiasm about a collection of microformats that represent the philosophy of microformats well:

1. RSS for simple syndication (though the jury is still out on its progeny, especially Atom, which seems to get more complicated as it goes through committee despite fi ne leadership).
2. xfn for human relationships (using the rel attribute; note that using rel is also an easy way to do ext end Creative Commons metadata).
3. GeoURL for location (using simple <meta> tags).
4. hCalendar for calendar events (mapping the commonly used iCalendar format to XHTML).
5. hCard for address books (mapping the commonly used vCard format to XHTML).
6. XOXO for outlines and blogroll-like subscriptions.
7. Attention.X ML for keeping track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.

The Chairman and Founder of CommerceNet, Marty Tenenbaum, asserted his belief in a recent brainstorming session that

There are maybe twenty simple schemas that cover 80% of the potential uses of data in collaborative commerce.

Marty often conveys his enthusiasm for the ongoing social software trend to increasingly facilitate improved E-Commerce. When thinking of Tantek's and Marty's visions, I'm excited that thoughts on cata blog suggest that there are opportunities to create microformats for products -- perhaps the music, movies, and books that fill up peoples' typelists represent a good place to start.

[i findkarma]

OK - so wow - is all I can say!

Marty and Tantek agreeing on the same thing!

What's coolio is how Tantek has his own representations of digital identity, events and outlines. Whatever happened to FOAF, iCal and OPML?

Isn't standards building fun?

Global Libraries and open source
infrastructure

Global Libraries and open source
infrastructure 04/07/2005 10:58 PM

Great article in Slate by Paul Boutin on Brewster Kahle called The Archivist. It mentions ourmedia.org. We're proud to be associated with Brewster. As JD and I have gone around and explained ourmedia.org to folks, the #1 question we get back is: "and who is this guy Brewster? Free - forever? Yah - right!"

So from now on - I'll just point them at this and many other articles on Brewster and the Internet Archive. Currently we're little more than a better front-end and community to the IA. We've got lots of work done on attaching meta-data to media, but until we get open APIs - like Fickr's - we ain't done yet.

Collections, ratings, better tags - we've got our work cut out for us. But we'll also be getting new kinds of services integrated - like the Jon Udell/Doug Kaye clipping service lick. Or Bittorrent support.

Who knows - maybe even Orb or Brightcove support.

ourmedia.org will be infrastructure for anyone to build on top of. They'll be full source-code implementations available so we're hoping for all sorts of 'white-labeled' ourmedia's. We use a system called Drupal - and this is what it's all about. Building reference designs so others can take it and run with it.

Maybe even some major high-end media tool company will build a protoype tool with it.

Or maybe Clay Shirky wil require all his students to get 'situated' with it. In an afternoon.

Open Source Version of .NET Ready

Open Source Version of .NET Ready 07/01/2004 07:05 PM
In the works since 2001, the Mono Project emerges from beta as version 1.0

Open Source VoIP Ready For Its Close Up

Open Source VoIP Ready For Its Close Up 09/25/2004 05:05 PM

Open Source VoIP Ready For Its Close-Up

Open Source VoIP Ready For Its Close-Up 09/24/2004 08:12 PM
Internet News Sep 24 2004 11:31PM GMT

Open-Source Backers Ready Longhorn
Defense

Open-Source Backers Ready Longhorn
Defense 04/28/2004 04:01 PM
Even though Longhorn is still two-plus years away, the open-source community can't afford to wait to build comparable technologies, advocates say.

Open Source Not Ready for Anti-Virus
(Ziff Davis)

Open Source Not Ready for Anti-Virus
(Ziff Davis) 08/09/2004 04:57 PM
Ziff Davis - Anti-virus software is definitely a challenge for the open-source model, and while there is at least one active program, there's no good evidence of how well it works.

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Cities work best with open
infrastructure

Cities work best with open
infrastructure 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Of all the talks at last week's VS Live 2004, this one was the best. But keep in mind that cities often thrive best because of the free passage afforded every inhabitant. Put another way, you won't see many bustling...

BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing

BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing 01/07/2004 06:13 PM

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
What should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the whole enchilada.

Open source process for closed source
development

Open source process for closed source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

IBM Adopts Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.

Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company. These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research and Global Services, he said."

Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the so called open source development process have they built into the Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different definitions of the open source development process (via Ross Gardler).

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
MSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.

Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's own website-."

Update: Yoz points out that the patch has been patched. Link (via /.)

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks 04/12/2005 08:07 PM
Accessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter 07/20/2004 11:14 AM
One frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla (keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?

Are you one of the few people with the time and money and expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the problem?

Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com) 08/03/2004 10:28 AM
washingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention 08/09/2004 12:52 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source 06/16/2004 11:32 AM
The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The open source development model produces superior software. But, in my estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source, but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
ANALYSIS: Redmond would be smart to make lemonade out of lemons by releasing the rest of the Windows code and letting developers have at it.

Open-Xchange Server goes open source

Open-Xchange Server goes open source 08/04/2004 09:46 AM
LINUXWORLD -- Open-Xchange Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server workalike, is being released under the GPL at the end of August. Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell/SUSE's Openexchange Server, and is produced by Netline Internet Service. Netline CEO Frank Hoberg will be in the Novell booth during most of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, displaying what a company press release describes as "the industry's top-selling Linux-based groupware, collaboration, and messaging application."

Open Arms for Open-Source News

Open Arms for Open-Source News 07/22/2004 06:17 AM
A California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel Terdiman.

Source Says Clark Ready to Endorse Kerry
(AP)

Source Says Clark Ready to Endorse Kerry
(AP) 02/12/2004 04:54 PM
AP - John Kerry lined up the support of campaign dropout Wesley Clark on Thursday, hoping to pre-empt any move by his remaining Democratic presidential rivals to sneak up on him in next week's Wisconsin primary.

Open source and visible source

Open source and visible source 06/08/2004 09:11 AM

Zope Corp.'s layered strategy of engagement with open source and visible-source communities is a compelling blend of the strengths of free and commercial software development. In two previous columns, Open source citizenship and Giving back to open source, I explored the tendency of enterprises to fork open source projects rather than join them. Pedhazur suggests that a commercial entity supporting both an open source base and a visible-source layered product can reduce the need to fork. By outsourcing code enhancements, the argument goes, an enterprise can enjoy single-throat-to-choke control without seceding from a project's community. It remains to be seen how broadly this model can apply, but in cases where it does, what's not to like? [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

In this two-minute clip, Zope Corp.'s Chairman Hadar Pedhazur describes the visible source model as a middle-ground option between the few large open source projects, whose direction an enterprise cannot easily influence, and the many smaller ones that enterprises can influence, but typically fork in order to do so. ...

'Weekend jails' get ready to open

'Weekend jails' get ready to open 01/24/2004 08:20 PM
Two "weekend jails" will be open for inmates from next week under a Home Office pilot project.

Windows 2000 Source Leak Verified. Get
ready for the havoc.

Windows 2000 Source Leak Verified. Get
ready for the havoc. 02/13/2004 01:11 PM
dotsecure_at_hushmail.com (Feb 12 2004)

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not 09/09/2004 05:25 AM
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not by Brian Lamb/strong>
http://www.edu cause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp

In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous decade and lamented: “I wanted the Web to be what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying ‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was not what I meant by interactivity.” That vision of a genuinely interactive environment rather than “a glorified television channel”—one in which people not only would browse pages but also would edit them as part of the process—did not disappear with the rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It’s churning away more actively than ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic breed of pages known as “wikis.”. This has been added to my Wikis section in Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators web page.

Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open

Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open 07/01/2004 12:17 AM
Slashdot Jul 1 2004 5:16AM GMT

Microsoft open to open-source

Microsoft open to open-source 06/24/2004 08:17 AM

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Are you ready for open source infrastructure?