Meet our host, Chris DiBona, a long-time open source advocate, former editor at Slashdot and founder of Damage Studios, he is now the Open Source Programs Manager at Google. On this episode we get to know Chris and hear about his plans for FLOSS Weekly.
Ben Goodger is Lead Engineer for Firefox. We talk about Firefox 2.0 and "3.0," XUL, the infamous "memory leak," and Ben offers his favorite secret Firefox tip. It's a good one!
Chris travels to Dexter, Michigan to speak with Slashdot founder, Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco about standards compliance, Slashdot's new commenting system, dorks, Star Trek, Mentos, and old shoes.
This week, geek out with core Perl 6 developer, chromatic...
This week Chris and I talk with Miguel de Icaza, the charismatic co-creator of the GNOME desktop, founder of Ximian, and father of the controversial Mono Project, designed to port dot-Net to Linux.
Larry Augustin was a grad student at Stanford when he started VA Linux - now VA Software. The company went public in December 1999. VA went on to create Sourceforge, and fund OSDN and Slashdot. Today Larry is on the forefront of open source software for the enterprise. We talked with him about the history of VA Software, why he started Sourceforge and OSDN, and the future of software.
Wikipedia's founder talks about online communities...
Linux game porter, Ryan Gordon talks about programming, gaming, the Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL), and porting Google Earth to Linux.
The author of Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl talks about why he thinks you need to work in Perl at least three hours a week to maintain proficiency, explains his hacking conviction, and previews the next version of Perl.
Jeff 'Hemos' Bates is one of the original Slashdot founders. He talks about the site's new design, facing the Digg challenge, and living down the infamous Slashdot PT Cruiser. But whatever you do, don't ask him about the nickname!
Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, talks about language design, favorite Python projects, and the future of Python.
PHP Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, talks about the origins of PHP, the challenges of open source development, and his favorite PHP programs.
Professor Moglen talks about the ongoing process of creating an updated GPL license.
Jeremy Allison on Samba, Vista, and James Bond...
Network management the open source way.
Jeff Waugh is an open source evangelist, consultant, and former Ubuntnik. Jeff was also on the organizing team for linux.conf.au.
We chat with Jon "maddog" Hall, Linux evangelist, and executive director of Linux International.
The history and features of PostgreSQL and why you might want to use it.
Linus doesn't use CVS, or even SVN, he uses git - a version control system he created for keeping track of the vast Linux kernel project. Randal and I talk about the merits of git with its maintainer, Junio Hamano.
Ruby on Rails isn't the only application framework, or even the best. Catalyst for Perl is an MVC framework that's being used for Vox, and other big sites.
We continue looking at Ruby on Rails type web app frameworks. This time Avi Bryant talks about Seaside, a framework for Squeak, the open source version of Smalltalk. Seaside was used to develop the incredible DabbleDB site. We also talk about Squeak itself.
Fernanda Weiden of Google speaks about women and Latin America in the open source community...
The Yahoo User Interface Library, a collection of open source JavaScript utilities and controls with cross-browser, cross-platform support.
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, which has been open source for more than 20 years.
Blender, the free, open source, general purpose 3D animation and modeling tool.
SQLite, an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and extreme programming...
Greg Stein for WebDAV, HTTP protocol extensions for collaborating on remote web servers.
Smalltalk and Squeak co-creator Dan Ingalls on Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Lively Kernel.
Making clusters easy, BitTorrent package distribution, rolls, and more.
Tom is the creator and chief developer of Noble Ape, a life simulator.
SugarCRM, maker of commercial open source software for customer relationship management.
A look inside the open sourcing of Java and the OpenJDK community.
The Python-based Web framework designed to enable rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Drizzle, the MySQL open source lightweight fork.
Apache CouchDB, the distributed, schema-free, document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
Laconica, the open source microblogging tool implementing the OpenMicroBlogging standard used in Identi.ca.
Asterisk, an open source PBXi, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit.
Simon Phipps, chief open source officer of Sun Microsystems.
Jeff Robbins on Drupal.
DotNetNuke, the CMS and Web application system and that runs under the .NET framework.
The free, open source, cross-platform audio editor Audacity.
Rockbox, the open source firmware that runs on many mp3 players.
GNUstep, the cross-platform, object-oriented set of Cocoa-based frameworks for desktop application development.
Aaron Seigo talks about the future of the K Desktop?
Gareth Greenaway and Shyam Kapadia for SCALE.
George Conard and Adam Monsen for Mifos.
Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier Novell's community manager for OpenSUSE...
Peter Saint-Andre on Jabber/XMPP.
Open MPI, a software implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard.
cURL, a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax.
Processing, an open source programming language and environment for programming images, animation, and interactions.
FOG, a Windows imaging solution tying together several open-source tools with a PHP-based web interface.
The Maemo operating system for Nokia Internet Tablet handheld computers.
jQuery, a lightweight JavaScript library emphasizing JavaScript and HTML interaction.
Étoilé, a GNUstep-based user environment that enables users to create their own workflow.
XBMC Media Center, the free, open source, cross-platform media-player and entertainment hub.
ZFS, the Sun Microsystems-created file system providing simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and significant scalability.
TuxPaint, the award-winning, multi-platform, art creation software for children.
BOINC, The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, a middleware system for volunteer grid computing.
Arduino, the open-source rapid prototyping electronics platform.
eBox, the open-source flexible server administration platform.
Wubi, the easy and completely safe way to install Linux to dual boot on your Windows machine.
The Open Source Bridge conference, a gathering for developers working with open source technologies in Portland Oregon.
Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and rock star.
Bryan Berry, of Open Learning Exchange Nepal, the NGO implementing the OLPC project in Nepal.
Ian Pratt for Xen, the multi-platform virtualization software.
Joel Holdsworth and Aaron Newcomb for Cinelerra, the free open source video editing software.
Sean Moss-Pultz and Christopher Hall for OpenMoko, the open source hardware platform for mobile phones.
Ken Glimer for Bug Labs, the opens source hardware platform for mobile devices.
Paul W. Frields of the Fedora Project, the free and open source arm of the Red Hat Linux distribution.
OpenSimulator, the free and open source 3D application server program used to create virtual environments.
Tim O'Reilly talks about open source and the future of web technologies.
Jeff Sheltren discusses the role of the OSU Open Source Lab in the open source community.
Glynn Foster for OpenSolaris the free and open source operating system from Sun Microsystems.
Inkscape, the cross-platform vector graphics editor using the W3C standard SVG file format.
Ubuntu, the free, community developed, Debian-based Linux operating system.
Christopher "Sean" Morrison for the free and open source tank game, BZFlag.
"DHH" talks about Ruby on Rails, 37Signals, and how he came late to coding.
ScummVM, a collection of recreated popular game engines made to run on new platforms.
OpenStreetMap.org, the provider of free and royalty-free geographic data.
IronPython, the Python implementation running under .NET framework, written in C#.
A look at online comic strips...
FoxyProxy, the Firefox extension that automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers.
LinuxCon, the new conference for core developers, administrators, end users, community managers and industry experts.
Ardour, the digital audio workstation and recording software.
Extreme programming, a software engineering methodology that advocates frequent releases in short development cycles.
A chat at LinuxCon with Linus Torvalds, who initiated development of the Linux kernel.
This week a discussion on MindTouch, the open source collaborative networking too.
Dojo Toolkit, the modular JavaScript library designed for cross-platform AJAX applications.
Boycott Novell, the controversial site about the Novell/Microsoft patent deal.
MakerBot, an affordable open source 3d printer for home users.
Puppet, the framework and tool that allows you to manage large numbers of servers.
Gnash, the open source Flash movie player.
The Open Rights Group, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of people in the digital age.
BioPerl, a project that aims to make Perl useful to biological scientists.
eXist-db, the Open Source Native XML database featuring index-based XPath query processing and more.
openSUSE 11.2, the free and open source Linux operating system distribution from Novell.
Ubuntu One, the service from Canonical that shares, stores, and syncs files across the cloud with your other devices.
Chris DiBona drops back in for episode 100 to talk Google and open source.
We discuss pfSense, the customized firewall distribution based on FreeBSD.
Jython, a Java implementation of Python and the successor to JPython.
Open Source SOA, a methodology for developing applications using accessible, discrete, reusable components.
FreeBSD, the OS for server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms.
MongoDB, the a scalable, schema-free, document-oriented database written in C++.
Cfengine, the standalone datacenter management platform.
Stellarium, the realistic 3-D planetarium for your computer.
Python and the upcoming annual Python Community Conference.
Symbian and the Symbian Foundation
Webmin, the web based administration tool to keep your system simple.
CMake, the cross-platform, open-source family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
Amahi, the home web server that lets you efficiently manage and backup of all the computers, game consoles and other devices in your network.
This week Simon Phipps, formerly of Open Source Program Manager at Sun, drops in to chat.
Ubuntu volunteer, Amber Graner, talks about getting more women involved in Open Source.
Doug Smith joins the FLOSS crew to talk about the ACM/IEEE Super Computing Challenge in New Orleans.
James Snyder stops by to talk about eLua, a fully featured programing language for embedded applications.
Tools for model railroad computer control and open source patents and licensing.
Shawn Pearce joins FLOSS Weekly to talk about Git, Gerrit, code review tools, and more.
Randal and Aaron talk with Scott Maxwell and Paolo Bellutta about driving the Mars rovers.
Haiku OS, the free and open source operating system inspired by BeOS.
History of IRC, the Peer-Directed Project Center, freenode and more.
The free, distributed source control management tool Mercurial.
Create dynamic learning environments, collaborative business applications, or interactive, multi-user simulations in Open Wonderland.
Zenoss is an open source network monitoring platform designed for highly scaled and distributed IT assets.
Lift is framework for writing web applications with security, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
AskoziaPBX is a complete telephone system. It can speak to nearly any telephony technology in the world and is configured via a highly intuitive WebGUI. Designed to run on low-resource systems.
Open source software development in Mexico.
OpenStack is open source cloud computing software for building reliable cloud infrastructure.
Riak is a highly scalable, fault tolerant, no SQL database.
VirtualBox, a high performance virtualization tool for enterprises and home use.
Vyatta is open source router software based on linux that takes advantages of modern processing power to control your data movement.
Evergreen Library System is open source highly scalable software that helps libraries manage, catalog and circulate their materials.
LinuxMCE is a complete smart home platform combining lighting control, media control, climate control, security and telecomm for the entire home in a single package.
Sugar Learning Platform is a computer environment designed to help children from 5 to 12 years of age learn together through rich-media expression.
WebcamStudio For GNU/Linux creates a virtual webcam that can mix several video sources together for recording or live broadcasting.
Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.
Plone 4 is the latest version of the state-of-the-art open source CMS.
Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.
Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM).
Rakudo Star is a more usable and stable distribution of Perl 6.
Membase is a distributed key-value database management system, optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications.
CentOS is an enterprise-class Linux distro derived from sources freely provided to the public.
The Ganymede project centralizes the source of truth for all the IT information, like the users, hosts and IP addresses of an organization.
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a GPL web control panel for administering and accounting hosting services.
Jono Bacon's open source music project, Severed Fifth, and the free music culture.
Tiki is a tool to build and maintain your Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or any other project you can run in a browser window.
BigBlueButton enables universities to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
OpenPilot is a next generation autopilot for small UAVs, including multi-rotor craft, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.
VoltDB is a database scaling solution that uses SQL.
Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
Pylons is a lightweight web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development.
A look back at the recent Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting, FOSDEM.
TonidoPlug is a tiny, low-power, low-cost personal home server and NAS device.
Sunlight Lab's goal is to make US Government data available to you.
PacketFence makes sure only the right people get on your network.
SELinux is a security layer that sits on top of Linux.
We take a look at the Joget Workflow which eliminates all your paperwork.
The 2600hz Project</a> is home to a collection of open-source telephony software that enables the use of the FreeSWITCH, Asterisk and YATE switching libraries.
Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk.
Open Source Software at the U.S. Department of Defense
Selenium is a suite of tools used to automate web app testing across many platforms.
Jitsi is your open source communicator for all your instant messaging, audio and video needs.
OpenCSW, the packaging system for Solaris.
Buildbot is software that automatically configures and tests your software packages for you.
The demise of open source software including Mono, OpenOffice(LibreOffice) and Skype.
Compiz the compositing window management system for X11.
Racket is a programming language derived from Scheme.
ClearOS is a network and gateway server for small organizations and distributed environments.
Jenkins, the continuous integration server that tests your software, builds it and packages it up.
Strawberry Perl is a version of Perl that runs on Windows.
We chat with open source veteran Bradley Kuhn about licenses and other important topics.
We chat with Travis Tidwell about MediaFront, the open source media solution for streaming and playing video over the web.
Randal's presentation at FISL 12.
We talk to the creator of the Enano CMS and its new, interesting features.
We talk to the creators of Taskwarrior, a to do manager that has a lot of really great features.
We chat with Colin Percival who has managed to put FreeBSD on EC2 and figured out a good way to have secure backups in the cloud.
We chat about Delta3D, a giant simulation engine that's used by the military but is available to civilians as well.
We talk about Synergy, which lets you use the same mouse and keyboard across multiple computers on your desk.
We talk about the Apache Traffic Server, a proxy server that you probably don't realize you are already using.
We take a closer look at Observium. A network management software that makes sure your system is staying up and running.
We take a closer look at Libcloud, a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.
We talk about PC-BSD, a user friendly desktop Operating System based on FreeBSD.
We take a closer look at Cassandra, the high performance NoSQL database that may be powering some of the websites you may already be visiting.
We talk about Eucalyptus, the project that enables on premise private clouds without retooling existing IT structure or introducing new hardware.
We talk about ScraperWiki, an online tool programmers use to extract and consolidate far flung data from the internet.
We talk to the Julien Genestoux about Superfeedr, the leading real time feed provider on the web today.
We talk about the Vaadin, a Java based, web application framework that allows you to make rich desktop applications.
We talk about web2py, a Python based web framework that has some really interesting and unique features.
We talk about to Jeffrey Thalhammer about his project, PerlCritic, which looks at Perl Code and gives suggestions about how to make it better.
We talk about a portable U.I. that allows your program to work on various operating systems without changing the code.
We talk about Salt, the remote execution engine that allows you to run the same command on multiple machines.
We talk about the Open Rights Group, it exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age.
We talk about Pinax, a web framework that gives you building blocks for your websites.
We talk to the creator of MySQL And MariaDB.
We're at the Brick Twithouse in Petaluma with Pieter Hintjens where we talk about ZeroMQ, which makes socketing and messaging easier.
We talk about the Village Telco project which is bringing low cost data and VoIP to developing countries.
We talk about the Overtone package which lets you create music and sounds just by writing in programs.
We talk with James Nixon from the FreeNAS project which lets you have a disk storage system on your network at home.
We talk to David Skoll about Remind, old school command line stuff that lets you get messages about what's coming up, and more.
We talk about Autotest, the testing framework used by the Linux kernel itself, and more.
We talk about Turmeric, a comprehensive, policy-driven SOA platform that you can use to develop, deploy, secure, run and monitor SOA services and consumers.
We talk to Crystal Hammer about Stunt Rally, a car racing simulation game.
We talk about oVirt, the virtualization platform that is open source and ready to use.
We talk about Deltacloud and how they're putting an API in front of all the cloud API's so you'll have only one API to worry about.
We talk about Aeolus, software for running virtual machines both internally on your own equipment, and in Clouds from several leading vendors. All at the same time.
We talk about Chamilo, a powerful learning management system that's being used by over a million people all over the world.
Nanoc is a Ruby web publishing system for building small to medium-sized websites.
Randi Harper joins us this week to chat with Liz Quilty about all things open source.
We go old school and talk about the early days of BBSing and Citadel.
We talk about Spree Commerce, a really great way to sell things on the internet.
We about OpenShift, the platform as a service that's free.
We talk about Gentoo, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
This week we talk about libvirt, a great way to manage your virtual machines.
LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux.
We talk about the home media server Excito.
This week we talk about Drools Planner which helps normal Java programmers solve planning problems efficiently.
We'll be talking about Scalr, the software that manages your application in the cloud so you don't have to.
Live at OSCON 2012 with two special announcements!
Learn about Chef an open-source system integration framework built specifically for automating the cloud.
We talk about the 2600hz project and something new they have called "Kazoo", a free business cloud telephone system with developer APIs.
The Falcon Programming Language: An Open Source, simple, fast and powerful programming language, easy to learn and to feel comfortable with.
Sugar is an affordable and easy to use customer relationship management (CRM) platform, designed to help your business communicate with prospects, share sales information, close deals and keep customers happy.
Openbravo, the scalable open source business management framework.
PostgreSQL is the #1 enterprise-class open source database with a feature set comparable to the major proprietary RDBMS vendors and a customer list that spans every industry.
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source MIT license.
OpenROV is a DIY community centered around underwater robots for exploration & adventure.
Jaspersoft delivers truly cost-effective, self-service business intelligence (BI) at scale.
HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) is a massive parallel-processing computing platform that solves Big Data problems. The platform is now Open Source!
KVM: Behind the scenes of probably everything you're using.
Baserock aims to be a great way to build embedded systems with Linux.
Cloud image creation made easy with imagefactory
Err is a plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.
Zanata is written in Java and uses modern web technologies like JBoss, Seam, GWT, Hibernate, and a REST API.
Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management.
BroadleafCommerce is an open-source, eCommerce framework written entirely in Java.
Yesod is a Haskell web framework for productive development of type-safe, RESTful, high performance web applications.
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.
gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of the libevent event loop.
Concrete5 is an easy to edit CMS designed to serve the relationship between site developers and site owners.
Auphonic is a free service for processing and distributing audio.
Tapper is a test infrastructure providing continuous integration through setting up complete machines from scratch, either image-based or via kickstart/autoyast/preseed.
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run.
Zotonic is the open source, high speed, real-time web framework and content management system, built with Erlang.
CakePHP makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code.
Dart brings structure to web app engineering with a new language, libraries, and tools.Dart is a class-based, object-oriented language with lexical scoping, closures, and optional static typing. Dart helps you build structured modern web apps and is easy to learn for a wide range of developers.
Pinto is a robust tool for creating custom CPAN-like repositories of Perl modules. You can fill your repository with any combination of private and public modules, and then build/test/install them using the standard tools (e.g. cpan, cpanm, cpanp). Since you control the repository, you'll get exactly the same modules every time. Pinto also has some novel tools for tracking and managing changes, so you can upgrade modules with confidence and control.
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
Pootle is an online translation platform that allows your professional or community translators to easily complete localization tasks. For you it becomes easier to manage and monitor the distributed work.
Weblate is a free web-based translation tool with tight Git integration. It features simple and clean user interface, propagation of translations across subprojects, quality checks and automatic linking to source files.
Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
Sauce Labs is an automated testing tool for mobile and web apps.Find bugs before they find you. Deploy faster and safer with Sauce's arsenal of test tools. Videos. Screenshots. Breakpoints. Metadata... all with 135+ browser/OS platforms on a secure, scalable instant cloud.
Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon discusses Ubuntu Phone and where the development is headed.
Mayan EDMS is a document management system with automated OCR, automatic categorization, flexible metadata, extensive access control and more.
The Maker is a content management system for rapidly creating, editing, previewing, and publishing websites on the Mac. You stay creative, while TheMaker manages your files, media, links and page changes. Reliable, efficient, fast and powerful: TheMaker.
web2Project is a Free Open Source business-oriented Project Management System (PMS) built for the future.
Serenity for Android is a Plex Media Server client for tablets and Google TV devices.
Ansible is a radically simple IT orchestration solution that automates configuration, software deployment, and other IT needs. Ansible models your IT infrastructure by looking at the comprehensive architecture of how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.
Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. Organizations can use Swift to store lots of data efficiently, safely, and cheaply.
Simon Phipps interviews five key people at OSCON 2013.
Opsview is a global IT Systems Management software business. Our flagship product, Opsview Enterprise was released in 2009, based on the original Opsview open source project launched in 2003, and is in use in over 35,000 companies in 160 countries.
Kaltura is the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, providing both enterprise level commercial software and services, fully supported and maintained by Kaltura, as well as free open-source community supported solutions, for video publishing, management, syndication and monetization.
SaltStack develops powerfully efficient software used by the world’s largest businesses for cloud orchestration, server automation and IT infrastructure management. We help cloud and software development teams, data center operations and enterprise IT organizations configure and automate essential IT systems at the speed and scale required by the most advanced cloud infrastructures.
ClockWork provides a high level, finite statemachine-based language called Clockwork that can be used to describe process control systems. Currently, this software supports the Beckhoff EtherCat system through the IgH EtherCAT Master for Linux and has experimental support for Internet of Things integration.
CampFireManager is a talk scheduling tool for conferences - such as barcamps or fixed schedule conferences. In it's usual deployment, it sorts talks into rooms, based on the number of attendees attending a talk. Shortly before each talk is due to start, the location of each talk is locked, and that location is broadcast, both to Twitter and Joind.in. Plugins are planned (and in some cases, have worked in the past!) to also broadcast that content over SMS (using Gammu), IRC and XMPP. As part of the association with Joind.in, talks are encouraged to be voted upon to give feedback on the event to presenters and organisers.
Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child, family member or home monitoring and other domestic care scenarios such as nanny cam installations. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more video or network cameras attached to a Linux system. ZoneMinder also support web and semi-automatic control of Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras using a variety of protocols. It is suitable for use as a DIY home video security system and for commercial or professional video security and surveillance. It can also be integrated into a home automation system via X.10 or other protocols.
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.
The BeagleBoard.org Foundation is a US-based 501(c) non-profit corporation existing to provide education in and promotion of the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. BeagleBoard.org provides a forum for the owners and developers of open-source software and hardware to exchange ideas, knowledge and experience. On occasion, BeagleBoard.org provides for the promotion of communication with other individuals interested in open-source software and hardware.
QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
The oSSum13 program includes keynotes, talks, workshops and a lot of fun. oSSum13 takes place November 15-17, 2013 following SUSEcon , our main sponsors' yearly conference. Registrations finalized before November 1st include free admission to Technology Showcase and Keynotes of SUSEcon on Friday November 15.
gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress. It works best with the gPodder application, but you can also use it with Amarok, other supported clients or as standalone web application without any client app.
RDO is a community of people using and deploying OpenStack on Red Hat and Red Hat-based platforms. We have documentation to help get started, forums where you can connect with other users, and community-supported packages of the most up-to-date OpenStack releases available for download.
ownCloud provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices -- wherever you are. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic editing right on the web.
Amahi is an open source software that runs on a dedicated PC as a central computer for your home. It handles your entertainment, storage, and computing needs. You can store, organize and deliver your recorded TV shows, videos and music to media devices in your network. Share them locally or safely around the world. And it's expandable with a multitude of one-click install apps.
Free PBX is an open source, web-based PBX solution, FreePBX is easy to customize and adapt to your changing needs. FreePBX can run in the cloud or on-site, and is currently being used to manage the business communications of all sizes and types of businesses from small one person SOHO businesses, to multi-location corporations and call centers. The FreePBX Ecosystem provides you with the Freedom and Flexibility to custom design business communications around your needs.
Magnolia is an open Java CMS that delivers smartphone simplicity on an enterprise-scale.
arkOS is a project designed to make self-hosting common web services easy for the general public.
SCaLE is a community run open-source and free software conference held annually in Los Angeles.
LIBRE was created by the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to power the liberation of government data.
The Omega Project aims to develop a universe simulator accessible by registered users over the json-rpc protocol.
GENIVI® is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open-source development platform.
Run by the busiest web sites on the Internet, NGINX enables high performance web architectures to improve user experience, without incurring unnecessary costs in capital or time.
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Hydra is a distributed data processing and storage system originally developed at AddThis.
MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4.x Framework, to make it easy for XNA developers to create cross-platform games.
TYPO3 is an Enterprise Open Source CMS. Christian Mueller is a community contact for the Neos and Flow teams.
GNU Health is a free Health and Hospital Information System with the following functionality: Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Hospital Information System (HIS) and Health Information System.
Mifos.org is a diverse community of microfinance institutions, technology professionals, business people, volunteers, and contributors. Ed Cable has been a part of the Mifos project since 2007 in its early days at Grameen Foundation. He oversaw the open source community, connecting its members worldwide with the tools, support, and engagement needed to build and use Mifos. Vishwas Babu is the lead engineer at the Mifos Initiative where he works on building an open technology platform for financial inclusion to the poor.
Seafile is an open source cloud storage solution with advanced features on file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork. Johnathan Xu is a founder and one of the main contributors of the Seafile project.
OpenStax CNX (previously Connexions) is a shared content repository of educational resources - primarily textbook style content. Ross Reedstrom is Chief Sysadmin as well as a developer for OpenStax CNX. Kathi Fletcher is the Product Manager for OpenStax Tutor at Rice University.
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software. Simon St.Laurent is co-chair of OSCON.
Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features. Emil Ivov is the founder of the Jitsi project and current project lead for the jitsi.org community.
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Mark A. Matienzo is the Director of Technology for the Digital Public Library of America, Mark Breedlove is the Technical Specialist for the Digital Public Library of America.
X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution which enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection. Mike Gabriel handles development, coordination of development, bug tracking and patch management, i18n team coordination, infrastructure maintenance and release management for X2Go. Mike DePaulo is a sysadmin at a large company by day, open source developer by night. He contributes to X2Go in his free time and primarily focuses on X2Go's Windows client.
Bro is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. As one of the lead engineers, Seth Hall works on the design, development and implementation of the Bro Programming Language and the Bro Platform. As the lead trainer and community coordinator Liam has worked with a large number of organizations to apply the new capabilities of the Bro Platform in novel and unexpected ways.
Buddycloud is a publish-subscribe architecture with realtime updates. Buddycloud publishers put, update and delete content in Buddycloud channels. Changes are pushed out to all channel subscribers. Simon believes that email is the one 'app' that has changed everything. He is driving buddycloud to be the next open communication standard.
Tonika is an administration-free platform for large-scale open-membership (social) networks with robust security, anonymity, resilience and performance guarantees. Petar Maymounkov is the author of Tonika, and was previously known as the co-creator of the Kademlia DHT (distributed hash table).
Turnkey GNU/Linux is a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
Aaron Newcomb, Dan Lynch and a special guest join Randal Schwartz on a look back of 300 episodes of FLOSS Weekly!
OSCON is a unique gathering where participants find inspiration, confront new challenges, share their expertise, renew bonds to community, make significant connections, and find ways to give back to the open source movement. OSCON 2014 will take place July 20-24 in Portland, Oregon. OSCON Kids Day is an entire day of workshops July 20, 2014 for school aged children interested in learning more about computer programming. Workshops will include Java, Python, Scratch, Minecraft Modding, Arduino, and more. Recommended ages for the workshops are 6 and up, depending on your child's skills and abilities.
Mirage OS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the $5m OCaml Labs industry/academia initiative. He conducts research on using modern programming languages to improve the reliability of complex real-world systems, primarily via the Mirage OS project.
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin. Ryan has contributed major feature enhancements to bitcore, especially hierarchical deterministic wallets (BIP 32), payment protocol (BIP 70), message signing, ECIES (asymmetric encryption), and general improvements to both the C++ and javascript cryptography. Manuel has contributed in many ways to bitcore, most importantly making it work fully in the browser, and achieving 100% test data compatibility with Bitcoin Core. He also helped build insight.is and copay.io, and is the main maintainer behind the proofofexistence project, a decentralized timestamping service built on top of bitcoin.
Fossetcon is an acronym for Free and Open Source Software Expo and Technology Conference. Fossetcon will be September 11-13th, 2014 in the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, FL.
Crate Data is a distributed SQL data store that runs on one machine or a cluster of machines. Jodok Batlogg is founder and CEO of Crate.
RStudio today develops free and open tools for the R community. These include the RStudio development environment as well as the shiny, ggvis, and dplyr packages. RStudio added enterprise-ready professional products to make it easier for teams to scale RStudio deployments and share work.
Hugh Howey is the author of the bestselling Wool series and talks about the parallels between his writing process and open source.
CrisisNET finds, formats and exposes crisis data in a simple, intuitive structure that's accessible anywhere(crisis.net). Jonathon Morgan is the co-founder and technical director for CrisisNET.
Sqitch is a database change management application. Sqitch is not integrated with any framework, ORM, or platform. Rather, it is a standalone change management system with no opinions about your database engine, application framework, or development environment.
The tables turn today as Randal Schwartz answers questions from the viewers, with Gareth Greenaway and Guillermo Ameral!
D is a general purpose systems and applications programming language. It is a high level language, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with the operating system API's and with hardware (dlang.org).
(From openHAB.org): OpenHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.
(From FenixEdu.org): FenixEdu is a modular software platform for academic and administrative management of higher education institutions.
CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks.
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database built to function on the web in real-time. Slava Akhmechet is the CEO and one of the founders at RethinkDB. Slava is interested in web technologies, distributed systems, and building delightful developer products. Prior to starting RethinkDB, Slava designed and implemented realtime trading systems in the financial industry.
Emily Richards is the CEO of ArtisTech, the small company that operates ccMixter.org and dig.ccMixter.org. dig.ccmixter is where people come to find fantastic, liberally licensed music. The musicians' community at ccMixter make modern, challenging, but satisfying music that they want you to hear!
Will Gorman has been a lead developer on Pentaho's open source projects for almost 8 years. Pentaho is a comprehensive platform for data integration and business analytics.
Jeff Kaufman joins us to talk about mod_pagespeed. Pagespeed speeds up your site and reduces page load time. This open-source webserver module automatically applies web performance best practices to pages and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) without requiring that you modify your existing content or workflow.
Mathew Miller joins Randal and Joe to talk about the release of Fedora 21. Fedora 21 is an operating system based on Linux and developed by the community-supported Fedora Project.
Richard Hipp joins Randal and Guillermo to talk about Fossil. Fossil is a Distributed Version Control System DVCS that is self-contained, cross-platform, with a built-in Wiki, and uses a relational database (SQLite).
Andrew Roland joins Randal and Gareth to talk about a new parsing algorithm: Marpa. Marpa is intended to replace, and to go well beyond, recursive descent and the yacc family of parsers.
Joe Brockmeir and Guillermo Amaral join Aaron Seigo to talk about Kolab. Kolab offers Personal Information Management for deployments of any size. It runs on a Rasberry Pi and in clouds spread over multiple data centers. Kolab provides a secure, scalable and reliable collaboration server.
This week we talk with Avni Khatri and about Kids On Computers, an organization that brings computers labs to children in impovershed areas. Avni Khatri joined Kids on Computers in October of 2010 where she was elected to the board in August of 2011 and is now the President of the organization.
Join Aaron Newcomb and Randal Schwartz this week to speak with Boudewijn Rempt about Krita. Krita is a FREE digital painting and illustration application. Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features.
Join Dan Lynch and Randal Schwartz this week to speak with Andrea Antonello about Geopaparazzi. Geopaparazzi is a tool developed to do very fast qualitative engineering/geologic surveys. Even if the main aim is in the field of surveying, it contains tools that can be of great use also to OpenStreetMappers as well as tourists that want to keep a geo-diary.
This week we are joined by Simon Phipps and Patrick Masson to talk about the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a global non-profit that supports and promotes the open source movement. Among other things, the OSI maintains the Open Source Definition, and a list of licenses that comply with that definition.
Aaron Titus drops in to talk to us about Crisis Cleanup. Crisis Cleanup is software that is designed to be a platform for inter-organization cooperation, communication, coordination, and collaboration at disaster sites. Crisis Cleanup's core objective is to embrace and support the interests of disaster survivors by providing transparent, collaborative, and privacy-enhancing open source technology to assist those who directly interact with and help survivors.
Evan Powell joins is this week to talk about StackStorm. StackStorm is an operations automation software that infrastructure and application environment so you can more easily automate that environment. With StackStorm you define, and share – as code – your operational patterns from events and triggers through to actions taken in response.
Simon Bennetts joins us this week to talk about OWASP ZAP. OWASP ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.
Solomon Hykes, CTO and chief architect of Docker, joins Randal and Gareth this week to talk about Docker's 2nd birthday and the vast ecosystem it has developed during the time. Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
Randi Harper, Founder of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative (OAPI) joins us to talk about online abuse and OAPI. OAPI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing and mitigating online abuse through the study and analysis of abuse patterns, the creation of anti-harassment tools and resources, and collaboration with tech companies seeking to better support their communities.
This week we talk about MOHID. MOHID is a three-dimensional water modelling system developed by MARETEC. MOHID has been applied to different study cases, as coastal and estuarine areas, as well as oceanic processes and reservoirs, and it has showed its ability to simulate complex features of the flows.
Podlove is an initiative to improve the overall technical infrastructure for podcasting. Podlove is both an network for developers to discuss features and agree on standards as well as an incubator for software and file formats under the Podlove name. Tim Pritlove is founder and coordinator of Project Podlove. While making just minor code contributions he's behind the specifications, doing most of the public communication, event organization and is behind most design documents and feature requests.
Randal and Gareth are joined by Pavel and Kirill to talk about CRIU. CRIU is a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux in userspace.
Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch talk with Pablo Ruiz about Taiga.io. Taiga is a project management platform for startups and agile developers & designers who want a simple, beautiful tool that makes work truly enjoyable.
Randal Schwartz and Guillermo Amaral talk with Mike Meyer and Geoffrey Hausheer about deviationTx. Deviation is a replacement firmware designed primarily for the Walkera Devo® series RC Transmitters.
Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps talk with Stephen Pair and Matias Alejo Garcia about Copay. Copay is a multi-signature Bitcoin wallet.
Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch talk with Andrew Dixon and Gert Franz about Lucee. Lucee is a light-weight dynamic scripting language for the JVM that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications.
Dan Lynch and Gareth talks to Ilya and Bryan about Weave. Weave works with every application. Automatically. No extra code. No operational surprises. Simple, scalable, and fast. Ilya Dmitrichenko is a Community Engineer at Weaveworks and Bryan Boreham is a Software Engineer for Weaveworks
Randal and Aaron are joined by Mounir Idrassi to talk about VeraCrypt. VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX and is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a.
Randal and Guillermo are joined by Pierros of SatNOGs this week to talk about the satellite networked open ground station. SatNOGs is an open source ground station, optimized for modularity, built from readily available and affordable tools and resources.
Randal and Gareth are joined by Joey Krug and Dr. Jack Peterson to talk about Augur. Use Augur to create a prediction market on any subject you're interested in.
This week Randal and Guillermo are joined by Anthony Minessale and Michael Jerris to talk about FreeSWITCH. FreeSWITCH is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media.
This week Aaron and Guillermo talk with Rachel Roumeliotis about The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). OSCON is an annual convention for free and open source software.
This week Dmitri Popov about digiKam. digiKam is an open-source, cross-platform (Win/Linux/OS X) photo management application.
This week Randal is at OSCON and he is joined by Heather McKelvey to talk about Basho Technologies and Riak. Riak is an open source NOSQL and Object Storage for the enterprise.
Today Randal and Guillermo talk to Bear and Peter Saint-Andre about Talky. Talky is open source software for group video chat, screen sharing, and more.
We talk with DreamHost CEO and OpenStack Director Simon Anderson about his roles at both organizations.
We talk with Brandon Philips about Tectonic, which is a complete and flexible open source architecture for Linux containers.
NTP does the job of keeping the clocks right on tens of millions of computers and other networked devices. Harlan has been working with Unix since the late 70s, and with open source starting probably in the early 80s. He put a lot of effort in to making sure the software he wrote and used was portable... At that time, to install NTP you got a tarball from UDel, unpacked it, read a bunch of instructions, edited the Makefile and a Config file, then built and installed the software...By the summer of 1996 the state of autoconf's testing was "good enough" that I asked Dave Mills if he'd like to see the NTP codebase converted to GNU Autoconf. He agreed, and I started working...Eventually something came up where I said "Dave, please do X because that requires root access." His response was "Here's the root password."...I kinda got "bitten by the bug" and swept up in the process. -- HarlanStenn - 17 Aug 2015
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the containers which make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery.
The main application of fwknop is to protect services such as SSH with an additional layer of security in order to make the exploitation of vulnerabilities (both 0-day and unpatched code) much more difficult. It implements an authorization scheme known as Single Packet Authorization (SPA) that requires only a single encrypted packet to communicate various pieces of information including desired access through a Netfilter policy and/or specific commands to execute on the target system.
Gambas is, before all, a Basic language with object extensions. A program written with Gambas is a set of files. Each file describes a class, in terms of object programming. The class files are compiled, then executed by an interpreter. From this point of view, it is very inspired by Java™.
Icinga is a scalable and extensible monitoring system which checks the availability of your resources, notifies users of outages, and provides extensive BI data.
This project focuses on advanced and experienced computer users, in contrast with the usual proprietary software world or many mainstream open source projects that focus more on average and non-technical end users.
Crowd Supply is a full service crowdfunding platform for open hardware and recently received the endorsement of the Free Software Foundation. Joshua Lifton co-founded Crowd Supply and helped build it from the ground up. He knows the challenges of going from idea to reality.
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.
Martin Sustrik discusses Libmill, which can execute up to 20 million coroutines and 50 million context switches per second.
The Numato Opsis is a powerful new FPGA-based open source video platform for videographers and visual artists. The Opsis board was designed to give the user complete control over high-speed video, enabling everything from real-time conference capturing solutions, to experimental visual art and even general FPGA-based video research.
Snickerdoodle is a $55 hybrid development board that has an ARM application processor with an onboard FPGA. Ryan Cousins of krtkl (the creators) and David Scheltema of Make: magazine join Randal and Aaron to discuss the board.
The feature set of OPNsense includes high-end features such as forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection and easy OpenVPN client setup. The latest release is based upon FreeBSD 10.1 for long-term support and uses a newly developed MVC-framework based on Phalcon.
Dart is an open-source, scalable programming language, with robust libraries and runtimes, for building web, server, and mobile apps. Kasper Lund is a software engineer at Google working on the design and implementation of programming languages. He talks about why people choose Dart and how the language is evolving.
Peter "ribasushi" Rabbitson is currently principal architect/developer/caretaker of the most popular Perl5 ORM-like RDBMS access library DBIx::Class. Long time advocate of minimalism and restraint within the more popular parts of CPAN: Perl5's unparallelled library repository. Winner of the "Wandering Albatross Award".
Matt Holt and Abiola Ibraham are key men behind the Caddy project. With a modern feature set, Caddy supports HTTP/2, IPv6, Markdown, WebSockets, FastCGI, templates and more, right out of the box.
Kinoma is a division of Marvell Semiconductor, and Kinoma Create allows one to develop with a comprehensive JavaScript-powered IoT prototyping product.
Piwik is a free and open source web analytics platform used by more than 1 million websites in 150 countries, which respects and protects privacy on the Internet. An alternative to commercial web analytics software, Piwik’s open source platform protects the privacy of web users through advanced privacy features and its approach to data ownership.
Tuleap is a fully Libre & Open Source software for Application Lifecycle Management: Agile Development, V-model, Requirement Management, IT Services, etc.
Gene Ressler is the software guy for the Bridge Design Contest. That's full stack designer and developer plus system operating engineer. He has a couple of other, more limited open source offerings: Sketch, a processor for a small 3d modeling language that emits LaTeX for simple but beautiful diagrams and figures. Steve Ressler is a civil engineer with specialized expertise in structural analysis and design. Back in 1995, while serving as a CE faculty member at West Point, Steve developed the original concept for the Bridge Designer software and wrote the original source code for this stand-alone Windows application.
Bitcore is a full bitcoin node — your apps run directly on the peer-to-peer network. By binding directly into bitcoin's source code, Bitcore's API is 20x faster than connecting to a separate bitcoin node, and orders of magnitude faster than a centralized API.
MuseScore 2 is the first major new release of MuseScore since 1.0 over four years earlier, and it includes tons of new features and improvements that have been requested by users including a brand new Start Center to simplify score browsing and creation, an Inspector window to provide easy access to properties of individual notes and other elements, and customizable palettes to allow you to group your most commonly-used score symbols together.
Booktype allows authors to create beautiful books for print and digital distribution. Publishers use Booktype to manage their entire catalogue in one place, providing authors, translators and proofreaders with all the tools they need.
OpenUnison combines web access management and provisioning services into a single system. Utilizing an internal virtual directory, powered by MyVirtualDirectory, OpenUnison can combine identity data from several sources such as Active Directory, LDAP directories and relational databases
Libcloud was originally developed and open-source in 2009 by folks at Cloudkick. It was developed to solve a problem of talking to multiple different cloud provider APIs, and to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.
Astara is the only open source network orchestration solution built by OpenStack operators for real OpenStack clouds. Astara eliminates the need for complex SDN controllers, overlays and multiple plugins for cloud networking by providing a simple integrated networking stack (routing, firewall, load balancing) for connecting and securing multi-tenant OpenStack environments.
Hledger is a lightweight accounting program for tracking money, time, or other commodities, on unix, mac and windows. With simple yet powerful functionality accessed from command line, terminal or web browser, it is a reliable, cross-platform alternative to Quicken, GnuCash, spreadsheets etc.
Harry van Haaren is the lead developer of the OpenAV productions, and he uses FLOSS software for all aspects of the OpenAV projects. Gianfranco Ceccolini turned the MOD into a union of his two passions: music and technology. Both of these men lead us through their work and innovations within musical technology.
ToroDB is compatible with MongoDB protocol and APIs, but with support for native SQL, atomic operations and reliable and durable backends like PostgreSQL.
CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. It supports master-master setups with automatic conflict detection and also comes with a suite of features, such as on-the-fly document transformation and real-time change notifications.
Hoodie is a free and Open Source Software for building applications for the web and iOS. Hoodie is a "noBackend" technology — it's there for making the lives of frontend developers easier by abstracting away the backend.
SFS does classes in Linux System Administration, bash, Puppet, PostgreSQL, and Raspberry Pi. They plan to do classes in WordPress, Zimbra, LibreOffice, Blender, Ruby, and BeagleBone Black. They also use GitLab and BigBlueButton every day.
Brett Gaylor is a Director at the Mozilla Foundation, where he helps helm the current encryption education campaign. He also oversees Mozilla's Open Web Fellows program, which places open source technologists and activists at leading nonprofits like Amnesty International and ACLU.
Rachel Roumeliotis, a Strategic Content Director at O'Reilly Media, Inc. returns to the show to discuss OSCON with Randal. They are also joined by Scott Hanselman, a programmer and teacher.
Perl 11 is an effort to make Perl 5 pluggable at the following levels: Runtime Virtual Machine, Compilation Unit Format / AST, and Source Code Syntax / Compilers. This will open up the doors to many kinds of language / technology experimentation, without endangering the existing Perl 5 / CPAN code bases that we depend on every day.
RPerl is the optimizing compiler for the popular Perl 5 programming language. RPerl stands for Restricted Perl, in that the developers restrict their use of Perl to those parts which can be made to run fast. RPerl also stands for Revolutionary Perl, in hopes that RPerl's speed will revolutionize the software development industry. RPerl might even stand for Roadrunner Perl, in that it RUNS REALLY FAST.
Buoy is a free and open source, decentralized tool designed to quickly connect users with trusted friends, family members, advocates, and other allies in times of need. Buoy is a community-based crisis response system for any emergency in which someone needs help but might not want to – or can’t – call 911.
David started his career in IT as a SysAdmin. Learned how to code in PHP out of boredom, and made some simple internal tools to help him out while managing the company network. Then he became a Blogger, and wrote about mobile technologies before the iPhone existed. He also wrote the CMS for the site itself, when WordPress was barely starting. Then he went working as a web developer for a company that did simple Facebook games. After that, he ported a Windows Mobile app to Android 2.3. Then, he became a Marketing Director for a mobile game company, eventually transitioning to Developer Relations Manager. But while looking for his next opportunity he had a hard time finding the right company, so out of frustration he created Simpe.li
Mikeal Rogers is the Node.js Community Manager and is employed by Node.js Foundation. He has been heavily involved in Node.js and JavaScript, and is the creator of request. He also ran NodeConf and JSFest. He’s held positions at DigitalOcean, CouchOne, Mozilla, Yammer, and many other technology companies.
Zohar Babin and Jess Portnoy join Randal Schwartz to talk about Kaltura, a leading platform for open source video.
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices badge is a way for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects to show that they follow best practices. Projects can voluntarily self-certify, at no cost, by using this web application to explain how they follow each best practice.
Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.
DreamFactory is a free open source REST API platform for mobile, web, and IoT applications. DreamFactory features instant API creation, deep SQL support, the ability to combine databases, server-side scripting, solid security, live API docs, instance management, application deployment, a developer dashboard, and more.
Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple data centers, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.
Founded by FLOSS (free, libre, open source software) enthusiasts with a large experience in development, research and consultancy activities, Bitergia is a company born from +15 years experience in URJC GSyC/Libresoft group on collaborative software development methodologies and quality models research.
Lisk is a blockchain application platform and crypto-currency, which offers an all round solution for Node.js and JavaScript developers to deploy their own blockchain applications.
With its strong focus on developer experience, Aurelia can enable you to not only create amazing applications, but also enjoy the process. We've designed it with simple conventions in mind so you don't need to waste time with tons of configuration or write boilerplate code just to satisfy a stubborn or restrictive framework. You'll never hit a roadblock with Aurelia either. It's been carefully designed to be pluggable and customizable. Over the last 10 years we've labored in building a variety of front-end libraries and frameworks on several different platforms. These libraries have been used to develop thousands of applications for virtually every industry. We've harnessed this rich experience and used it to build Aurelia, the most advanced and developer friendly front-end framework today.
In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic and advanced options. Koha includes modules for acquisitions, circulation, cataloging, serials management, authorities, flexible reporting, label printing, multi-format notices, offline circulation for when Internet access is not available, and much more. Koha will work for consortia of all sizes, multi-branch, and single-branch libraries.
