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“Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” is the first book covering the now famous java framework supporting data intensive distributed applications.
Doug Cutting, the project’s author now working at Cloudera, wrote that Tom White - author of the book and long time contributor to the Apache top-level project - is the most qualified person to write a book about hadoop.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Books: Hadoop, the Definitive Guide’
Toli Kuznets, Marketcetera CTO and co-founder, will tell you about how to implement your trading strategy on the Marketcetera platform.
Reserve your Webinar seat now, the webinar will be held on Thursday 3rd of September at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT.
The EU now provides a search tool to find applications among the 1751 open source development projects hosted on ten federated forges managed by Austrian, French, Italian and Spanish public administrations.
The new search engine basically relies on an automatic translation service, translating projects’ descriptions in English.
SourceForge.net is wanting to make sure performance of the site from various locations on the globe is fast. As Europe is a major source of traffic to the site, they are seeking testers in Italy.
Daniel Hinojosa, SourceForge.net Support Senior Manager, kindly asked me to spread the word, read below his message.
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Eric Barroca after reading Dirk Riehle’s slides about “The Commercial Open Source Business Model” wrote an inspiring blog post, receiving a number of interesting feedback from the business open source folk.
Let me start by recommending Dirk’s presentation, it really worths reading, but beware of his definition of “commercial open source”:
Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software.
Transform your Intranet with Drupal Collaboration - Learn how combining Drupal and Alfresco with Optaros content management experts Chris Fuller and Jeff Potts. 15th of September.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars From Alfresco to Zend’
The Open Innovation Summit - taking place on the 2nd of October within the Open World Forum - will give twenty companies the opportunity to make a 7-minute presentation to VCs and major systems integrators to promote their company and projects.
If you are an open source entrepeneur needing funds, take your time to explain how your open source offering is innovative by sending your application before the 1st of September.
If you want to raise money in France and/or want to open an office in the Paris region, this is definitely your chance to make it.
The NEXA Center for Internet & Society seeks two researchers for the following project: Identifying Internet users: technical, legal and economic analysis of the consequences on privacy, fundamental freedoms, innovation and business models.
The NEXA Center for Internet & Society intends to study these issues and their social and economic impact, with the goal of reaching a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between anonymity, privacy and Internet access.
Continue reading ‘Open Jobs: Anonymity, Privacy and Internet Access’
The ODF Plugfest is a series of events bringing together implementors and stakeholders of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to test standards conformance and discuss ODF implementation issues.
Until the first ODF Plugfest, vendors were not asked to prove that their software products meet open standards‘ specifications, and declarations of conformity was a self-certification process. Now everything is changed, and ODF implementors and stakeholders work together aiming at true interoperability.
Packt announced the launch of the fourth open source CMS award, an award organized by the publish company since 2006 in order to encourage, support, recognize, and reward open source Content Management Systems.
Nominations are open until the 11th of September, to submit a nomination have a look at the 5 different categories and if you are looking for inspiration visit open source directories like opensourceCMS or CMSMatrix.
I am honoured to have been invited to join the judge panel this year, and I am looking forward to share my thoughts with other judges and learn about their views.
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