Contributing to Open source

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There are various different types of online webmasters available in the market now a day’s who are taking care of selling of websites, domain names, advertising spaces, services and anything which is related to online marketing or internet marketing. There are various different modes of working of these webmasters which further varies from one organization to another. But primarily everyone is taking care of the maintenance of the website and also responsible for accurate working of web...Read Full Story

I’d be surprised if many professionals have a good understanding about open source software (OSS). Until 18 months ago OSS was barely on my radar and something I mentally tagged as ‘keep away - geek stuff.’ Today many of the services I use are built with OSS components. Do I care? Of course. OSS helps to keep the cost of service delivery in check. But there is another dimension to OSS. Larry Dignan quotes Eric Wilson, CIO for Raley’s, a California supermarket chain: If you take labor our...Read Full Story

Epsidode 50—Techno Granny and Chat Friends from Pittsburgh and Australia on Open Source Technology and Free SoftwareOnce again my chat room saved me when a guest did not show up. Guest was to be Joe Polk of Pennsylvania Technology Assistance Program. Penn Tap. I am sure there was some technological difficulty that prevented him from joining me but chat listeners once again saved Techno Granny from a talkcaster’s worst fate—dead air time.My Knights in shining armor: Travis Knight, from...Read Full Story

Erwin Tenhumberg posted two interesting articles recently: New EU report about the impact of open source French Ministry saved 1.2M Euros with OpenOffice.org The first article links to a PDF of an EU study on the impact of open source. Erwin chose to highlight a few points of particular interest, which I’ll quote here: According to table 1 on page 31 more than 90% of the surveyed Brazilian government organization and more than 70% of the Indian government organizations are using OpenOffice...Read Full Story