For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the
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Bay Area Linuxists: Butt kicking for goodness
On March 1st, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
If you live in (or are visiting) the Bay Area, you can help by donating old hardware and by helping install Ubuntu.
If you are part of a company with a [...]
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Bay Area Techies: Help Schools with Your Old Hardware and Free Software
On March 1st, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
If you live in (or are visiting) the Bay Area, you can help by donating old hardware and by helping install Ubuntu.
If you are part of a company with a [...]
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VanPHP: Mega Map Mashups with PHP
Via [Peter Gordon](http://superwebdeveloper.com/wp/):
Vancouver PHP User Group
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September 14 Presentation: Mega Map Mashups with PHP
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Jim O'Leary is a PHP and Python instructor and avid GIS enthusiast.
For this month's meeting Jim will be sharing on the following topics:
- MapGuide Open Source, an application built in PHP and JavaScript
- Web mapping servers (WMS) and how to access them
- Keyhole [...]
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ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
Machine-readable licensing blocks
One of our recent activities at eZ has been to rework our licensing. While most of the changes have been related to improving the agreements involved (simplifying, internationalizing, improving the legal robustness, etc.) we plan to make some changes to how we attach licensing information to our source code.
The basic plan is to drop in [...]
Rhode Island and LAMP
Rhode Island put itself on the cutting edge of hot-technology uptake
last year when it became one of the first state governments to get
beyond traditional government conservatism and implement open-source
technology. The gamble is paying off: The bill for the state's rules
and regula-tions database came in at $40,000\227only $6,000 of which was
hardware costs\227and took one consultant four [...]