Somebody that has posted a patch has: learned how to download the source, has learned how to build your project, has stepped through your code to find and understand their bug or new feature, and most importantly has shown a tremendous amount of initiative.
The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) builds capacity in software engineering in Africa using Free Software (Open Source) as the vehicle.
A Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA) is required in order to accept third party contributions to an open development project, such as an open source software project. Such third parties do not automatically grant either the copyright of the contribution
while we expect Open-Core to remain a significant business model for 'pure-play' open-source companies, and we expect to see more software licensed under the Apache license, we don't see the two as being directly related.
"Cloud computing" (today's terminology for an old concept) represents a combination of factors that are accelerating the transition of common IT activities from a product to a service based economy.
Coverity, a company specialized in software integrity products and testing services, announced the expansion of its academic program, now granting academic access to their static code analysis software Coverity Prevent, for both teaching and research use.
A resource like Google Apps may seem like an easier choice for collaborative office applications, but some businesses can't or won't risk their company's data to resource it can't fully control. OpenGoo lets users enjoy the functionality of other popular
This video channel complements the OSS Watch website and features video interviews with key open source software stakeholders, and recorded events organised or attended by the OSS Watch team.
Talk about turning lemons into lemonade. The new Tr.im may be the most exciting thing to happen in URL shortening since now market leader Bit.ly itself launched.
Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Technical Documentation, industry expert Anne Gentle's new book, brings the tools of the Social Web to technical documentation. She looks at the most important Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, micro-blo