open source

SCALE 7x :: Feb 20-22, 2009

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 7x) early bird registration will be ending Jan 19, 2009. If you are planning to attend the
conference, now would be a good to secure your registration.
http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/

Registration includes the Women in Open Source (WIOS) conference on Friday, Feb 20.
http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/conference-info/special-events

The Los Angeles Drupal Group and the Los Angeles LinuxChix will both have a booth in the exhibition hall so be sure to drop by and say HI!

/Sharon

session proposal at drupalcon for a pre-built development environment. free. open source. with php debugging. works on MAC, Windows, linux, and solaris.

I'm planning to give the talk at DrupalCamp San Diego, and it has been accepted as talk at SCaLE 7x. It should be pretty polished by the time march rolls around. if you're interested, please check it out and vote: DrupalCon 2009 - Drupal Development in a "to go" box.

It's based on

We thought the Apps for Democracy contest was a great way to show the DC government that Drupal is the leading open source platform for government project and a great chance to get them familiar with the platform. So we built a Drupal site and entered it in the contest. You can vote for it here. You don't need to log in so it only takes three seconds to vote, but voting closes tonight at midnight, so vote soon!

The site we built is called DC Bikes and you can check it out here. It's a guide to biking in DC and puts mostly city data on a map so people find detailed bike routes in DC, monitor bike theft in real time, and buy bike equipment on Craigslist. This site is built on Drupal and is the only submission that is 100% open source - we used open source Mapnik for our maps rather than Google Maps. Specifically we used <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedapi>FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper for the site's aggregation, and the spaces module allowed us to build it pretty quickly.

Has anyone taken a look at BuddyPress (Buddypress.org), the WordPress-based social networking project?

I just downloaded it and have been pretty impressed by its ease of use and the supplied widgets for groups, forums, and activity tracking. The base theme BuddyPress provides is decent. Several sites have been developed with it (flokka.com)

Are you heading out to vote this morning? Have you thought about how each of the parties support open source? The Greens's IT policy explicitly states a number of policies about encouraging Open Source in Business, Government and Education.

It's hard to beat that! Further; The Greens use Drupal and CiviCRM heavily in both their public-facing and internal systems -- their actions match their words. Go Greens!

Apologies if this post is not relevant to the group....

The Calgary Open Source Systems Festival (COSSFEST) is under active planning for an April/May 2009 event. We have the start of a new website in place at http://www.cossfest.ca. We are looking for someone with better graphic design skills than myself, and with enough spare time to bring this site to life. There are a few things we'd like the site to do that I have no experience with (online paid registration, etc).

Take a look at the following opporunity [via helpareporter.com

Query:

"Are you a software developer who used to donate your time, but now
you're paid and no longer "do it for free?" If so, I would like to
talk to you about that for a feature story on Linux.com. "

Summary: Open Source developers who actualy make cash

Category: Technology

Name: Tina Gasperson

Email: tinahdee@gmail.com

Title: contributing editor

Media Outlet/Publication: Linux.com

Anonymous? No

Specific Geographic Region? No

Region:

Deadline: 12:00 PM EASTERN - September 4

Hola gente!
Tantísimo tiempo que no hacemos una reunión!
Quería saber si alguien tiene pensado ir a las Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre de 2008.
Se hacen en la Universidad de Belgrano, Zabala 1837, Capital Federal.
Entrada libre y gratuita (aunque te tenés que inscribir desde la página).
Se desarrollará los días 20 , 21 y 22 de agosto (Programa).

Has anyone here implemented or worked with the Pentaho open source B.I. Suite? I'm curious about what potential avenues and possibilities exist in bringing Drupal & Pentaho together for reporting & B.I.

Thoughts? Discussion? Experiences?

Pasen la voz a todos los amigos, compañeros, colegas, etc. El Peru esta un poco bajo en las descargas: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Firefox 3 ya entro a los records Guiness con mas de 5 millones y medio de descargas en menos de 24 horas, asi que no pierdas la oportunidad de ser parte de un evento historico y bajate Firefox. La mayoria de plugins se pueden usar con la nueva version, pero hay algunos que no, asi que yo tengo las dos versiones corriendo en mi maquina pero lanzando Firefox del Terminal con perfiles, mas informacion: