Coders Going Mercenary: From Community to Corporation
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| "I'm sure there are developers who make this transition, but they are
| generally not the ones I know. Many, if not most open source developers I
| know -- including many Linux kernel developers -- work on open source for
| their [corporate] companies as well as during their own time," Amanda
| McPherson, marketing director for Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider.
|
| [...]
|
| Coders who make the transition from community to corporate software
| development often find little difference in the process. Software development
| has two main components: the code and its methodology, according to Sameer
| Verma, a professor of information systems at San Francisco State University.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/61147.html
WSO2 bringing Ruby to SOA
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| With open-source software being formally introduced Monday, WSO2 seeks to
| bridge the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails Web framework with
| service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=11&articleId=9056979&intsrc=hm_topic
http://tinyurl.com/364m4s
Quote for the day:
"If it [the timing of the donation] had anything to do with the antitrust case,
we would have told someone."
--Ms. Stonifer, director William H. Gates Foundation
[Comment on the above: yes, they would openly tell someone if they subverted
justice. They pulled similar stunts for OOXML on the face of it.]
Related:
Top 10 Projects to Come Out of Google’s Summer of Code
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| Every summer since 2005, Google has offered what is essentially a paid
| internship to open source groups. Students are offered the opportunity to
| work with open source development groups to complete projects, often
| resulting in significant advances for both the student’s knowledge and the
| developments they’ve worked on. These projects, combined or otherwise, are
| some of the biggest successes we’ve seen come out of Google’s Summer of Code.
|
| # Gaim: The Gaim instant messaging project benefited greatly from Summer of
| Code, getting helpful updates that made it into the client’s 2.0 version,
| Pidgin.
| # Neuros OSD: This audio/video recording and playback device is committed to
| open source, but had non-open source DSP code in order to get on the market
| faster. Google Summer of Code students created an open source “bridge” that
| enabled open source codecs to be used...
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http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/top-10-projects-to-come-out-of-googles-summer-of-code/
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest
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| Following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program, Google is
| pleased to announce this new effort to get young people involved in open
| source development.
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http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/
Open-source software gamble for Google
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| Can something you give away for free turn into a gold mine? That's the
| multimillion-dollar question Google Inc. is betting on with its push into
| open-source software.
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http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=308cccac-dbe3-46ad-bc9e-a06a1130a510&k=51155
Amarok's Summer of Code Review
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| Read on to learn about two innovative additions to the Amarok project.
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http://dot.kde.org/1190246519/
Google Summer of Code
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| Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been
| announced! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of
| nearly 6,200 applications.
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http://code.google.com/soc/#a
Google Launches "Google Developer Day"
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| The intention behind Google Developer Day sounds somewhat similar to "Hack
| Day" -- an annual one day gathering that rival Yahoo has been hosting in
| its Sunnyvale, California abode inviting software developers to get
| together and experiment with Yahoo applications.
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http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,15238,srn,4,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vhyu3
Google Grants - Free Advertising for Open Source Non-profits
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| Programs like Google Summer of Code can really help raise awareness of
| your project, but you may want to learn about another Google program
| that may be able to help give your project more visibility.
|
| The Google Grants program, currently in beta release, uses Google
| AdWords to help nonprofits spread their messages to a wider audience
| by providing them with free advertising on Google.com.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-grants-free-advertising-for-open.html
http://tinyurl.com/34py7c
(Google) Speaking of Summer
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| Google Summer of CodeTM 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over
| 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups.
| We're extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google
| Summer of Code again this year.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html
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