Links: Open Source Week in Review

• Removing Barriers to the Community – MySQL Moves to Bazaar – Jay Pipes

  It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software

• Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class

  As textbooks, Cohen used Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software, supplemented by Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Lawrence Rosen’s Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law. All, appropriately enough, are available in free online versions. Cohen also made extensive use of other Web pages throughout the course.\n\nThe midterm and the final exams were based on material covered in the lectures and the textbooks. However, two-thirds of each student’s grade was based on their involvement with a FOSS project.

• Open Thoughts: Freshmeat: PostgreSQL is More Popular than MySQL

  Surprising that PosgresSQL ranks higher than MySQL here. However, I think it’s a good sign that there are two very active open source SQL databases.

• EeeUser ASUS Eee PC Forum / Verizon EVDO Data connection on Eee PC via USB phone link

  Instuctions for getting an Asus Eee to connect over a Verizon EVDO card.

• SourceForge.net: Wine 1.0 released

  Open source implementation of Windows API on top of X And Unix turns version 1.0.

• Social Networking Trends | IDC

  Social Networking Applications in the U.S. Take Hold and Market Experiences 191% Growth in 2007, IDC Finds

• RMS & Clipperz offer freedom in the cloud « rand($thoughts);

  To summarize, Clipperz has technology for “zero-knowledge web applications” which they have applied to an online password manager as a proof of concept.

• Over 12 Top, Free Tools For Web Development Projects | OStatic

  Some free, some open source tools and services that are used to develop and maintain websites. New ones for me are Piwik (http://piwik.org/) and Open Designs (http://www.opendesigns.org/).

• blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: reddit goes open source

  The open source components in Reddit – Debian, lighttpd, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Slony-I, various python libraries, Psychopg, pylons, Solr, Tomcat, Ganglia, Mercurial, Git, gettext (translation), daemontools, and memcached.

• Where Now With Patent Reform

  Given the failure of pending patent reform legislation (S. 1145) to make it out of committee in the U.S. Senate this spring, it is unlikely that we will see any form of comprehensive patent reform legislation this year. This should not be surprising given that this is a major election year and the fact that there are a few other issues on the table (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Middle East peace, soaring gasoline prices, soaring food prices, housing market in the ditch, Midwest flooding – shall I go on?).

• Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel

  Media processing vendor Pika Technologies Inc. recently announced that its Warp appliance line is customer-ready and ready to slay the Nortels and Ciscos of the world in a bid for the small to midsize corporate telespace.

• tecosystems » Open Source: Thinking Outside the Glass Box

  Stephen O’Grady sums up the current debate, begun by Savio, continued by the 451’s Matthew Aslett, and back to Savio. The question being asked is one that’s made the rounds before, and one that I’ve asked myself: are there artificial limits to the revenue potential of open source firms? As Aslett puts it, a glass ceiling?

• The Beekeeper – Pentaho Wiki

  How commercial works by Pentaho CTO James Dixon.

• Over 8 million — way to go! :: The Mozilla Blog

  8 million downloads in a 24 hour period. The judges at the Guinness World Records are working to validate thevrecord attempt.

• Red Hat chief: We are hard to do business with – ZDNet.co.uk

  Red Hat’s new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners.

• Black Duck Software Marks the One-Year Anniversary of GPLv3 with an Examination of Trends in Use | Black Duck Software

  Black Duck analyzes progress of GPLv3 since it’s release last year. 2,345 open source projects have addoped the license. One trend was the increase of dual licensing.

• Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET

  The company will make money from support contracts (various fees for various levels of support) and pre-installation consulting. It will also offer some online services for Drupal setups, like a “heartbeat” or monitoring service, and an anti-spam solution

• Virtualization and Linux: Red Hat unveils new vision

  The Red Hat move that will catch the eye of most users is the Embedded Linux Hypervisor, oVirt. \n\nAt this point, followers and users of Red Hat Linux may be asking, “What about Xen?” (the best-known open-source hypervisor technology to date.) Red Hat, according to Red Hat executive VP Paul Cormier, will continue to support both Xen and KVM. But, because “KVM is now baked in to the Linux kernel, it’s very easy for both Red Hat and other developers to work with it,” Cormier says. For the time being, Xen will continue to be important, but, as time goes by, Red Hat sees KVM becoming the dominant virtualization technology, he says.

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