Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
The open source mela begins today. The IEC Times carried a news article this morning.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
Prof. Andrew Lynn of JNU, a very active crusader of open source will be in IEC to talk about "Why is open source important?".
As per Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, "No amount of fear can stop the rise of free media, or free software (they are the same, after all). The community is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company. And you will never turn back the clock on elementary school students and developing economies and aid agencies and fledgling universities - or the Fortune 500 - that have found value in the wisdom of the open source community. Open standards and open source software are literally changing the face of the planet - creating opportunity wherever the network can reach."
Monday Mar 24, 2008
Portal Server enthusiasts will have a lot to rejoice in the open source mela. At least four talks around OpenPortal are planned.
- Manage content using Project Mirage by Joshna Kambalapalli: CMS is a system used to create, store, and manage content. Project Mirage is an open source CMS initiative from the Portal team based on a JSR-170 compliant content repository.
- Incorporating Workflow in applications using SAW (Simple API for Workflow) by Ganesh Ram: The Simple API for Workflow(SAW) is intended to offer a generic workflow API to perform human workflow interaction with various workflow engines. This generic workflow API will ship with a default implementation for Java Composite Application Platform Suite (JCAPS). The SAW is being consumed by other features (Example: OpenPortal and Project Mirage).
- In addition, talks on Dreamweaver Plugin (by Ganesh Ram, again) and SharePoint integration (by Murali Krishna Reddy) are planned.
Monday Mar 24, 2008
Seen in the IEC lobby:
A poster inviting Sun engineers to attend open source mela!
Open source projects are primarily community driven, although companies may make commercial products from these projects. Open source projects encourage everyone in the community to contribute their knowledge and expertise and, in turn, everyone in the community benefits. For example, when the community contributes enhancement requests or submits bug reports, fixes or enhancements are implemented to improve the tools, and everyone benefits. Example: Because NetBeans is open source, you can influence what happens to the IDE and the direction for NetBeans' future growth. Click here for more information.
Monday Mar 24, 2008
An interesting talk on NetBeans awaits those who are
planning to attend the open source mela. This talk on NetBeans
(intended primarily for engineers) by Rohan Ranade covers:
- NetBeans platform and architecture aspects
- Using NetBeans to build applications
This talk will be followed by a demo on checking out source code, compiling source code, and writing enhancements.
Rohan
has been working on the NetBeans platform for the last 1.5 years
primarily on the XML editing aspects. Rohan is a self-made NetBeans
evangelist.
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