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Drizzle, Licensing, Having Honest Conversations with your Community
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| I pulled this from a quote on yesterday's
| Slashdot story about MySQL Licensing where
| the author of the quote mentions Drizzle's
| licensing terms:
|
| "you require the code to be under BSD"
|
| This is actually a myth, we don't.
|
| If you look through the Drizzle codebase
| you will note that very few files have BSD
| headers, and all that do?
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http://krow.livejournal.com/684329.html
NoSQL conference coming to Boston
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| On March 11 Boston will join several other
| cities who have host conferences on the
| movement broadly known as NoSQL.
| Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase, HypergraphDB,
| Hypertable, Memcached, MongoDB, Neo4j,
| Riak, SimpleDB, Voldemort, and probably
| other projects as well will be represented
| at the one-day affair.
|
| [...]
|
| The resilience of open source
|
| One question that intrigues me is why all
| the offerings in the NoSQL area are open
| source. Some have commercial add-ons, but
| the core technology is provided as free
| software. The few proprietary products and
| services in the market (such as
| Citrusleaf) get far less attention.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/nosql-conference-coming-to-bos.html
Twitter growth prompts switch from MySQL to 'NoSQL' database
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| Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today
| told the blog MyNoSQL that the social
| networking company plans to move from
| MySQL to the Cassandra database for what
| he called its resilience, scalability and
| large community of open-source developers.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/337276/twitter_growth_prompts_switch_from_mysql_nosql_database?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
The lie of the land
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| It's ambitious and time-consuming work to
| produce free maps of the whole of South
| Africa, but that is exactly what the
| OpenStreetMap (OSM) team is doing. Relying
| on a team of volunteers willing to hit the
| highways, streets and tracks of the
| country with their GPSes in their spare
| time, the OpenStreetMap SA team has now
| mapped more than 120,000 km of the
| country's roads. The resulting maps are
| licenced under a Creative Commons licence
| so that anyone can use the information.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/11499.html
Recent:
How To Organize A Mapping Party
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| We had a mapping party at NIT Calicut
| recently. After the first day of the event I
| shared some ideas to make such mapping
| parties better with GeoHackers team.
|
| [...]
|
| Maps are created at this stage. The data we
| have mined are ordered, analyzed, and
| tagged. We need to make sure that all the
| team follows a naming convention or comment.
| The coordinator should watch for over
| marking / mis-marking of the same location.
| Once the data is properly tagged, it is time
| to upload it to the OSM server.
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http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-organize-mapping-party.html
FLOSS Weekly 81: OpenStreetMap.org
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| OpenStreetMap.org, the provider of free and royalty-free geographic data.
|
| Guest: Steve Coast for OpenStreetMap.org
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http://www.twit.tv/FLOSS
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