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Matrix Calendar
Matrix Resources hosts a number of the local users' groups. See their current month's calendar
Open Source News
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OpenStreetMap launches all-new easy map editor and announces funding appeal | OpenStreetMap Blog
A venerable, long-lived opensource project: openStreetMap just got some very cool new features, Kudos, guys!
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Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud | Big Data - InfoWorld
Netflix migrated from Oracle to Cassandra, and open source NoSQL database.
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Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O'Nolan — Kickstarter
Does the world need yet another blogging platform? Apparently lots of people with money think so:
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Red Hat: The Software Industry's Choice Is 'Open Or Die' – ReadWrite
RedHat says OpenSource is the way to go. Surprise! Surprise!
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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project? - Slashdot
How does one judge the health of opensource projects? Can these subjective bulletpoints be quantified?
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Dropplets: Probably the Simplest Blog in the World - OSTraining
Review of Dropplets: dead-simple blogging tool. Reminds me of Simple PHPBlog from days of yore, no DB:
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Six open source security myths debunked - and eight real challenges to consider | ZDNet
Cogent piece on opensource security myths vs. the real issues:
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Adafruit Learning System
Electronics tutorial site from adafruit. ok, it sells their kits, but they're cool kits.
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Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video) - Slashdot
Notes from the trenches on running a Linux-based business aimed at the SME market:
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Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer | ZDNet
A $99 linux supercomputer? Could be awesome! I can think of several applications:
OSS Atlanta: Open Source News in the Atlanta, GA Area
Atlanta OpenStack Meetup
OpenStack is an open cloud computing platform founded by Rackspace and backed by NASA, see openstack.org. It's to counter the proprietary cloud offerings of Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure. Ok, so maybe this doesn't exactly go under the 'operating systems' menu item, but it's pretty close. From their meetup page:
This is the Atlanta OpenStack developer Meetup. We are a group of free software developers who are passionate about working together to help make the Openstack project a success!
Can't wait for the next meetup? Join us on IRC! We hang out on Freenode at #openstack-atlanta. See the Atlanta OpenStack Meetup page.
Unix Users' Group on Meetup.com
The Atlanta Unix Users' Group is migrating to using MeetUp.com, so see the AUUG Page there.
The Differnt Kinds of "Open"
Everyone in the open source commuinty remember the discussion a few years ago about what 'Free' means: 'free' as in 'beer' vs. 'free' as in 'speech.' Now it looks like we're embarking on figuring out the different kinds of 'open.' So I've written an article about the different kinds of open. Hope you enjoy.Open Source and Jazz
See my latest personal blog post on Why Open Source Software is Like Jazz. Hope you like it.So What's This Site All About?
This from my inbox this morning:
Can you tell me more about what you are trying to do with OSSAtlanta?
Fair Question. I replied:
I'm trying to do several things:
- Provide a single jumping-off point for users interested in Open Source in Atlanta
- In having been involved in user groups for 20+ years, I know one of the challenges is coming up with program material. By making it easier for user groups to find each other, I'm hopefully making it easier for the organizers to get ideas for future meetings. i.e. serving as a sort of 'speakers bureau'. An example is Mike Warfield's upcoming two-part IPv6 talks. The first part will be at ALE next month, and the second part will be at an upcoming AUUG meeting.
- I'm trying to foster cross-pollination of ideas from one group to another. Example: I'm suggesting a couple of programs for the Joomla and Drupal users' groups: Drupal for Joomla Users and Joomla for Drupal Users.
His reply back was: Have you ever thought of having a list of speakers and topics that they have presented for organizers to look through. This way they can get ideas or just contact that person to come and speak.
I thought that was a great idea and I'll try to get that going in the near future. Keep those cards and letters coming in!