The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the Geographic Information Society of South Africa announce the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference in Cape Town 29 Sept - 3 Oct.
September 12, 2008 --
Cape Town, South Africa, September 8, 2008 – The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) (http://www.osgeo.org) and the Geographic Information Society of South Africa (GISSA) (http://www.gissa.org.za) announce the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference incorporating GISSA 2008 (http://www.foss4g2008.org) September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA KnowledgeTree, the leading provider of Open Source document management software for small to medium-sized organizations and departmental users, today announced the availability of KnowledgeTree Open Source Edition 3.5 licensed under the new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.
"The new GNU GPL version 3 is modern, well-structured and a significant achievement for the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We believe that it will provide a strong mechanism for the KnowledgeTree open source community to co-create and share document management functionality, " said Daniel Chalef, KnowledgeTree COO.
The Utah Open Source Foundation is pleased to announce its 2009 Conference: October 8-10, 2009 at the Salt Lake Community College - Miller Free Enterprise Center in Sandy, Utah.
The Utah Open Source Foundation is pleased to announce its 2009 Conference: October 8-10, 2009 at the Salt Lake Community College - Miller Free Enterprise Center in Sandy, Utah.
The Paragent IT management application, known for its sophisticated web-based interface and ease-of-use, eschews the traditional complaint of open source software being difficult to use, or only for those comfortable at the command-line. This isnt a half-hearted move, said Tim Ritchey, CEO of Paragent. The open source community is getting the same code we run on our production servers. Paragent is hosting the open source project on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/paragent. The open source code is available free for download by anyone.
Business Intelligence consultants expect more interest in open source, open standards BI software in times of economic downturn. As companies try to save money, open source BI provides an effective alternative to expensive proprietary software. Lower IT spending not only delivers immediate savings but also secures higher competitiveness in the long term.
) January 21, 2009 -- Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Clicks2Customers has risen to the top of the rankings in January 2009. They managed to achieve this high ranking with their continued focus on providing high performance paid search services. Executive Head of New Business for Clicks2Customers, Jonathan Gluckman, further explains, "By combining proprietary search platforms, customized autopricing algorithms and a low cost base in Cape Town, we provide high performance at competitive cost."
The Largest Geospatial Conference in the Middle East and North African Region to be held on
April 26 - 28, 2009 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
GPLpedia.com has released the latest version on Oct 23rd-- Crusader of Open Source Software. GPLpedia.com has over 530 Open Source Software's and over 5000 demo's, documentations and downloads.
) October 10, 2008 -- This year Fry-IT is sponsoring Plone 2008 in Washington DC (8th to 11th of October 2008). The conference brings together about 400 or more Plone developers and enthusiasts from around the world. Together with companies like Google, where one of Plone's founders Alexander Limi is now working, Fry-IT is helping to increase the worldwide profile of Plone.
Founding partner Zahid Malik of Fry-IT: "With our contribution we're giving back something to the community. Helping to grow an open-source project such as Plone underlines our desire to help and make software more accessible and ultimately more reliable."
Syntext, Inc. (http://www.syntext.com) is happy to announce the release of Serna Free Open Source XML Editor! Serna is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor based on open standards.
) September 21, 2009 -- One of America's most watched television home designers is now counting the hours until he lands in South Africa and officially becomes an international ambassador of style.
The annual conference for the Open Source content management system Plone took place in Washington DC last week. To the backdrop of the intensifying presidential election campaigns, the conference played host to the election of the Plone Foundation board, and saw one of the largest gatherings of Plone developers, users and business leaders. (PRWeb Oct 18, 2008)
RedHat is a key technology player in Open Source and Linux. GPLpedia.com is a key business player in promoting , marketing and sales of Open Source Software.
) August 6, 2009 -- While it makes perfect sense that one of America's most watched home designers would become an ambassador of style, the reality of the global impact Mark Brunetz is already having with his not for profit organization is a testament to the world's desire for clutter free, empowering living and work spaces.
Veda Informatics have launched www.open-source-developers.com, to offer website development services using open source technologies. It is to be focused on the needs of individuals and small businesses.
BROOMFIELD, CO - The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.
Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic, presented a status of the Census results Wednesday before the 9:00 a.m. Oracle keynote at LinuxWorld.
Firefox ranked as the most installed open source project. Zlib, Xerces, Xalan, and Wget are the second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Participants span a wide variety of company sizes, geographies, and industries.
Main themes found by The Open Source Census revealed in today's presentation are:
Living-e AG announced that it is offering its successful content management system webEdition 6 as open source software as of today. Living-e is proud to also extend professional services support by the professional developer team to end-users and freelancers as needed. (PRWeb Nov 3, 2008)
September 11, 2008 --
Wayland, MA, USA and New Delhi, India September 11, 2008. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) joins GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India) in a Call for Sponsorship and Participants in the Delhi Transit Routing Pilot Interoperability Initiative http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/delhipilot This is a test bed activity to advance OGC’s open framework for geospatial data and systems interoperability in the context of transportation planning for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
RapidVector Web CMS is compatible with the new browser Chrome released by Google on Sept. 1st 2008. Websites built in RapidVector load and open in Google Chrome as same as they open with other modern
