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Open Source Consultants

Open Source Consultants 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Most large open source projects have a "core team". Members of the core team often have consulting businesses. These folks known a lot about the project (they wrote it), and they tend to be productive programmers. If you need help, hire them. This is one of the best support options money can buy.

Must-have open source applications for
consultants

Must-have open source applications for
consultants 02/01/2005 08:49 PM
As a consultant to small businesses trying to get up to speed on Linux, my must-have applications are OpenOffice.org, MySQLAdmin, and Rekall. I'm going to include Knoppix as well; although it isn't an application in the sense of being a single package, I use it as a system recovery tool rather than an operating system.

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.

Greensboro Newspaper Goes Open Source:
A Follow Up

Greensboro Newspaper Goes Open Source:
A Follow Up 12/22/2004 01:21 AM
"Why aren't more people who think citizen's media important willing to advise a newspaper company that is willing to gamble its site on a citizens media strategy? You tell me. Maybe the prospects for this industry (daily newspapers) are considered so bleak by most that 're-invention' is almost a dead letter." And: interview with founder of Greensboro101.com

Chicago Transit Advice Needed for my SES
Trip

Chicago Transit Advice Needed for my SES
Trip 12/17/2004 06:32 PM
I'm heading to SES Chicago later this week to be on the Thursday morning "Web Feeds, Blogs, and Search" panel. What I'm struggling with is how to get from Chicgo O'Hare to the hotel (Hyatt Regency McCormick Place) and convention center (McCormick Place - Lakeside Center). So far I've had very mixed messages from those who know Chicago better than I, which is--honestly, just about anyone. Given that my flight is scheduled to arrive at 6:16pm, is it more sensible...

Open letter to MovableType Developers /
Consultants

Open letter to MovableType Developers /
Consultants 12/19/2004 03:42 PM

This note was forwarded through SixApart and should be hitting the Developer Network mailing list or Forums shortly

I am in need of a MT consultant / developer. I have a MT site www.geeknewscentral.com, it is firing on most cylinders but it has a custom CSS that has made it difficult for me to enable dynamic html and make other changes. The designer of the skin has been too busy with her own projects to be able to support us.

I have a small/medium sized budget and I am willing to pay someone to come in look at the layout, and tell me what can be done better or what needs to be brought up to speed. I would like a permanent relationship with someone that I can hire to pay for their time $$$.$$ to keeps an eye on new plugins etc and that I can rely on.

I would do it myself but have too many irons in the fire. If you would be interested in working with us, please send me a e-mail introducing yourself and some links to some of the MT work that you are currently or have done in the past. Included should be your rate scale and any minimums, keep in mind I am looking for a long term relationship in which the consultant/developer becomes a integral part of our team.

The individual must be willing to sign a NDA.

Task that I am wanting completed:

A top to bottom overview of the layout of the site and clean up of any CSS and MT Tags.
Implement several specific changes to the site layout (NDA)
Get dynamic pages working!
Suggestions of plugins that could enhance the site!
Develop a Podcast only blog in line with out current design
Develop 2-3 new skins for new domains (NDA)

If you fit that description and will stick with us for the long haul drop me a e-mail.

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.

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
WSI, worldwide leader and leading edge Internet Consulting and Education Company, is proud to announce the launch of a new Internet Consultant (IC) office to serve the South London area. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

World’s Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in San Jose, California

World’s Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in San Jose, California 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
WSI, worldwide leader and leading edge Internet Consulting and Education Company, is proud to announce the launch of a new Internet Consultant (IC) office to serve the San Jose area and the western states. The office will be doing business as; WSI Elite Net Designs. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow the
Paths of the Dead

Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow the
Paths of the Dead 04/07/2005 10:24 PM
Did The Wizard of Oz inspire Lord of the Rings? "The first film version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was released in the summer of 1939, less than a month before World War II officially began. Though started as early as 1937, The Lord of the Rings was largely composed during the war years, but not published until somewhat later. Therefore, it is by no means impossible that J.R.R. Tolkien saw the magnificent MGM movie before he wrote most of his magnum opus. Could Oz have influenced his tale somehow, consciously or unconsciously?"

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.

Microsoft Source Follow-Up

Microsoft Source Follow-Up 02/13/2004 01:27 PM

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.)...

Chicago Tribune on open spectrum

Chicago Tribune on open spectrum 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
The Chicago Tribune has an article about the FCC's various proposals to open up more wireless capacity, with several quotes from me.  The different aspects of open spectrum get a bit muddled, such as the distinction between current initiatives like the FCC's broadcast underlay proceeding and long-term proposals like my supercommons idea.  Still, it's good to see the big idea of open spectrum getting play in a mainstream newspaper.

Follow-up: MS Office Formats Not Open

Follow-up: MS Office Formats Not Open 02/01/2005 09:43 PM

BetaNews | Analyst: MS Office Formats Not Open

As we reported here, Robert Scoble first announced that certain elements of Microsoft Office would become Open Source. Now it looks like MS might have taken a few liberties with the term. Read the article above and see what you think.

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. ...

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 Directory Project Story Follow-up!

Open Directory Project Story Follow-up! 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
After Chris at www.lockergnome.com linked the Open Directory Project Story last week, we had the usual Lockergnome crowd surge. After...

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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 /.)

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?

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

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.

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 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 ...

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 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.

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 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. ...

Microsoft open to open-source

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

Microsoft open to open source

Microsoft open to open source 06/24/2004 12:49 PM
Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it. But the company has so far released two software-development tools to the open-source community, and it wants to continue the practice, a Microsoft platform manager told an industry group this week.

Open season on open source

Open season on open source 05/21/2004 01:07 AM

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