Virtual Community Makes Open Source Encyclopedia Succeed
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How to succeed with open source
How to succeed with open source
09/07/2004 04:54 AMSite Offer Discounted guide for IT managers
Open-source encyclopedia Webs up one
million articles
Open-source encyclopedia Webs up one
million articles
09/21/2004 12:25 PM
The
Wikipedia , an open-source encyclopedia whose articles may be
edited easily by any person with a Web browser, has passed a milestone with over one
million articles now available.
The Wikipedia passed the 500,000 entries milestone earlier this
year .
(via
BoingBoing )
Open-source, collaborative Web
encyclopedia passes mileston
Open-source, collaborative Web
encyclopedia passes mileston
03/13/2003 10:16 AM Wikipedia ,
an open-source,
collaborative , Web-based encyclopedia passed a major milestone
this week: 100,000 published
articles . After
two years of work, numerous
volunteers in English and several other languages have created,
corrected , refined, and continued to hone a
growing reference source for a diverse group of topics, while starting
a similarly-organized
dictionary on the side.
The project uses Wiki software to create
web pages which any user can edit and write to. Multiple layers of
backup and the vigilance of volunteer editors ward off vandalism.
Wikipedia is a public WikiWikiWeb, a website where anyone can edit any
article at any time. Users build upon each other's edits, and
vandalized articles are quickly repaired by restoring an older
version. In Wikipedia's second year, thousands of volunteer editors
from around the world have added 80,000 entries to the English version
and 33,000 more to the other language editions of Wikipedia. This
surge in growth has made Wikipedia the world's largest and fastest
growing open content encyclopedia...
One way of exploring this project is to see what is says about itself,
a
hypertext encyclopedia
community . It
can also be compared to other distributed information projects, such
as
Everything2 ,
weblogs ,
ThinkCycle , or the
Encyclopedia of
North Carolina project.
(from Wired
News )
Open-source encyclopedia reaches half
million entries
Open-source encyclopedia reaches half
million entries
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Wikipedia , an open-source encyclopedia, announced a milestone : 500,000 entries in more than fifty
languages. More than two hundred thousand articles are in English .
Any Web user may edit any page in the Wikipedia, as each page is
an open "wiki" document.
Moreover, the copyright ethos of this collaborative
information resource is open ,
without any creator owning any contribution.
This represents extensive growth over the past thirteen
months, when Wikipedia announced one
hundred thousand entries. The project began in
2001.
(via Kuro5hin )
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
05/05/2004 04:06 AMAbout 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 Virtual GPS for Wi-Fi
Open Source Virtual GPS for Wi-Fi
05/19/2004 11:46 AMWhile Quarterscope pursues worldwide wardriving to build its virtual
GPS database, the open-source Herecast project expects more grassroots
contributions: A few weeks ago, we wrote about Quarterscope, a company
which combines a database of wardriving-based GPS and Wi-Fi access
point data with live information from a Wi-Fi card to produce a
virtual GPS. Mark Paciga wrote in to point to his nascent effort,
Herecast, which is an open-source project to develop a similar
resource that's a little more open-ended as to goals. It can combine
mapping, location information (you are here/you are near...), and
friend finding. The system doesn't use GPS mapping either on the input
side or output side, but rather tries to use wayfinding through naming
of familiar places in the vicinity. Paciga notes that it only took a
few hours to mock up functional demos. It's available now as a Pocket
PC beta, but he hopes to port it to Windows XP as well....
What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community?
What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community?
12/02/2003 12:27 AMSlashdot Dec 1 2003 1:09PM ET
Apple And The Open Source Community
Apple And The Open Source Community
07/04/2004 06:56 PMOpen Source Community Building
Open Source Community Building
03/24/2005 05:27 AMOpen Source Community Building by Matthias
Stürmerhttp://opensource.
mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdfAbstractBuilding an active and helpful community around an open source
project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in
this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an
open source project and to identify recommendable promoting actions by
project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this
paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful
open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about
community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced
community members exposed helpful activities that led to the presently
prospering communities of their projects. Summarizing the conclusions
of this qualitative research a table with conditions for successful
open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion
matrix of community building could be created. They include
suggestions on how to start a new open source project and how to
improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source
project.
Google reaches out to open-source
community
Google reaches out to open-source
community
03/19/2005 03:28 AMThe site is aimed at providing the open-source community with software
tools developed and used internally by Google, contributing code that
external developers might find useful.
Free/Open Source research Community
Free/Open Source research Community
12/09/2003 01:27 PMFree/Open Source Research Communityhttp://opensource.mit.edu/h
ome.htmlFree/open source software (F/OSS) is software
for which the human-readable source code is made available to the user
of the software, who can then modify the code in order to fit the
software to the user’s needs. The source code is the set of written
instructions that define a program in its original form, and when
it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it, modify it, and
redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the software. In this
manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by traditional
proprietary software. For many years free/open source software has
been building momentum. Beginning amidst the technical cultures that
produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it is now causing quite a
stir in the commercial world as large software corporations are
finding themselves competing against commercially available open
source software.
This new demand for free and open source
software has piqued interest among scholars in disciplines ranging
from sociology to economics to social psychology, and has raised
questions in fields of application ranging from innovation processes
to strategic management. As an aid to these scholars, they offer the
Free / Open Source Research Community. By having visitors contribute
to our research databases, they hope to establish a community of
information exchange that will lead to a greater understanding of open
source and it's applications.
In the spirit of free and
open source software (F/OSS), they are attempting to establish a
community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that
others may further the understanding of open source and its
implications outside the realm of software development. They invite
researchers to post their papers on open source and free software
here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that their
community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive.
Red Hat to build open-source community
in India
Red Hat to build open-source community
in India
01/26/2004 10:18 AMComputer Weekly Jan 26 2004 2:08PM GMT
Attacks puzzle open-source community
Attacks puzzle open-source community
02/13/2004 06:56 AMZDNet UK Feb 13 2004 10:52AM GMT
More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community
More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community
04/29/2004 11:56 AMEarlier this month we joked about how the new Avalanche CIO co-op was
really
open
source with a $30,000 gate. It appears that the group doesn't see
it as a joke. That's
exactly how they
describe themselves. The interview with one of the founders also
raises some interesting points about how the group is going to avoid a
SCO-IBM situation where some of the software that goes into the co-op
is accused of having intellectual property violations. The guy from
the co-op sort of brushes that off by saying they have a top
intellectual property law firm who will review all submissions to make
sure they're safe. Considering the number of software patents showing
up these days on all sorts of minor software processes, and the fact
that I'd put IBM's lawyers up against any top IP law firm any day and
they certainly didn't expect SCO to go on this bizarre run, I doubt
that's much real protection. If anything, this may end up opening up
the companies in the co-op to more (pointless, of course) patent
lawsuits by revealing their internal software. For instance, the
first piece of software in the co-op was an internal application from
Best Buy. Before this, no one outside of Best Buy really knew what it
did, since it was all internal. Thus, there was almost no risk of
being accused of patent infringment. However, by opening it up
(admittedly to just a few companies right now) they risk someone who
has patents on some tiny process used in their software to come back
and sue them
and any of the other companies in the co-op who
downloads it. Maybe after a few of these types of lawsuits the
companies involved in the co-op will become a bit more pro-active in
fighting against bad software patents.
Red Hat building open source community
in India
Red Hat building open source community
in India
01/24/2004 12:09 AMBANGALORE, INDIA - Linux vendor Red Hat is investing in India to build
an open source community in the country, with educational institutions
likely to be a key focus, according to the company's top executive.
Openwave Courts Open Source Community
Openwave Courts Open Source Community
05/31/2002 10:12 AMVirtual Access Open Source Project
Virtual Access Open Source Project
11/02/2003 10:52 AMVA - Alpha Binaries v6.0.0.6
Bochs: An open source virtual PC
software
Bochs: An open source virtual PC
software
06/06/2004 05:22 PMThe Hindu Jun 6 2004 8:55PM GMT
vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence
vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence
03/14/2005 05:29 PM"Open source and commercial applications will coexist in peace, Marten
Mickos, chief executive at MySQL, said in a keynote presentation at
LinuxWorld, adding that open source will help the IT industry to move
more quickly into new markets..."
IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community
IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community
09/13/2004 10:28 PMIBM has contributed speech technology to the Apache Software
Foundation. By releasing its source code IBM hopes to bring a quick
end to battles over competing, proprietary standards; solidifying the
industry behind VoiceXML.
BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor)
BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor)
05/20/2004 03:46 PMNewsFactor - BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) is delivering software code
for its WebLogic framework, with
an eye to drawing more developers to the platform and speeding the
creation of more Java-based enterprise applications.
Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code
Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code
08/05/2004 07:54 PMIBM's move to open-source its Java database "permits applications to
count on the functionality of a real database from the get-go," says a
member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld
Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld
08/03/2004 11:07 PMAttendees are finding plenty to appreciate at this week's LinuxWorld
show in San Francisco, including new products, desktop Linux and guys
in kilts.
Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move
Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move
05/26/2004 07:31 AMVia a link from
PHP Magazine
today, there is a special note off the newswire about the
MoviePartners leveraging open source technologies to launch two new
websites, one of which is the "oldest and largest" screenwriting
communities still in operation.
Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community
Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community
04/17/2005 11:09 AMThe Linux 2.6 kernel is getting fatter, some contend; others say new
features are optional and that their use is at the discretion of
organizations compiling their builds of the kernel.
Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community
Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community
06/05/2005 11:28 PMCan the open source community beat
software patenters?
Can the open source community beat
software patenters?
08/10/2004 10:51 AMPatents and the threat they pose to open source and overall software
innovation are a hot topic, but patents may not be a useful weapons
against a community that works with, ardently supports, and defends
open source with money, time, and expertise.
Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans
Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans
09/17/2004 07:45 PMThe broadness of Microsoft's recently revealed e-mail authenication
patent confirms open-source concerns with the company's anti-spam
efforts using Sender ID.
IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)
IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)
08/03/2004 06:10 PMNewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is providing its Cloudscape relational
database software to the
Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an open-source organization, hoping
to
spur innovation for Java applications for embedded databases.
Interview: Sudhir Gandotra on what
India's open source community needs
Interview: Sudhir Gandotra on what
India's open source community needs
04/07/2005 01:23 PMSudhir Gandotra is an open source marketeer par excellence. He is best
known for Kalculate, an accounting package for the Linux desktop, but
Gandotra has been providing support for Linux desktops for almost a
decade. In this interview he talks of various open source adoption
barriers that exist in India, his experience marketing a product that
mandates the use of a non-standard operating system, and the reasons
behind his Linux desktop for India.
CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community
CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community
08/07/2004 08:41 AMFree/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers
Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers
10/28/2003 11:08 PMFree/Open Source Research Community Online Papershttp://opensource.m
it.edu/online_papers.phpFree/open source software
(F/OSS) is software for which the human-readable source code is made
available to the user of the software, who can then modify the code in
order to fit the software to the user’s needs. The source code is
the set of written instructions that define a program in its original
form, and when it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it,
modify it, and redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the
software. In this manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by
traditional proprietary software.
For many years free/open
source software has been building momentum. Beginning amidst the
technical cultures that produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it
is now causing quite a stir in the commercial world as large software
corporations are finding themselves competing against commercially
available open source software.
information. This new demand for
free and open source software has piqued interest among scholars in
disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to social psychology,
and has raised questions in fields of application ranging from
innovation processes to strategic management. The online papers
archives represents the latest thinking and current happenings.
CA makes database open source
CA makes database open source
05/24/2004 11:26 PMZDNet May 25 2004 3:07AM GMT
NSW RTA Makes Open Source Move
NSW RTA Makes Open Source Move
06/24/2004 07:53 AMThe authority has already indicated its preference for open standards
by installing Apple's iMac G4 across the registries earlier this year.
By Simon Hayes, The Australian (via MyAppleMenu)
Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community (Ziff Davis)
Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community (Ziff Davis)
04/17/2005 02:41 PMZiff Davis - The Linux 2.6 kernel is getting fatter, some contend;
others say new features are optional and that their use is at the
discretion of organizations compiling their builds of the kernel.
Novell makes iFolder open source
Novell makes iFolder open source
04/09/2004 04:02 PMOne of the more interesting announcements at last week's BrainShare,
at least to me, was that Novell was going to open source its iFolder
technology.
Solaris Makes Open Source Debut
Solaris Makes Open Source Debut
06/17/2005 04:44 PMMicrosoft Makes More Open-Source
Overtures
Microsoft Makes More Open-Source
Overtures
08/30/2004 08:09 AMMicrosoft is reaching out further to the open-source community with
offers of joint development and testing, but some wonder about the
company's sincerity.
Open source CRM software makes a big
splash
Open source CRM software makes a big
splash
03/17/2005 03:42 AMBlueWhale 1.0 is a new customer relations management (CRM) product
from TechWhale, a Tampa, Fla.-based open source development company.
TechWhale's president Alan Ranciato claims BlueWhale, which was
released in December, is the first all-encompassing open source CRM
application written in .Net.
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