IEC Open Source Mela

Open source mela begins today

Tuesday Mar 25, 2008

The open source mela begins today. The IEC Times carried a news article this morning.

 

Open source review process

Tuesday Mar 25, 2008

Bhavna Singh is providing in-house process expertise for open source.

When a product is planning to go open source, there are a lot of things to take care of. License restrictions and infringements are just two of them. How would you like if somone provides the required help to walk you through the whole process? Bhavna Singh provides this much needed expertise for IEC product teams. Hear Bhavna talk about open source review process.

Open source is the ideal development and business model for today's massively connected Participation Age economy. Why? Because it offers freedom to every user and developer by encouraging genuinely collaborative innovation. Open source software can lower customer barriers to: access, switching costs, and greater value achieved in an environment that allows for increased participation and competition. Companies gain compensation for their innovations by building on the contributions of others. Click here for more information.

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Louis Suarez-Potts on OpenOffice

Thursday Mar 20, 2008

Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager for OpenOffice will talk about his favorite subject (OpenOffice) next week at the Open Source Mela. Louis won't be in India, but instead deliver his talk using video conference. For starters, OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. You can download OpenOffice here.

The mission statement of OpenOffice.Org is to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Click here for more information.

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