Joomla! site syndication http://www.opensourceconsortium.org Tue, 21 May 2013 04:32:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/234/ Hadoop ecosystem London, 1 May 2013 A presentation by OSC member Shashin Shah (http://www.osscube.co.uk/) Discover and appreciate the rising importance and prominence of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem in the Big Data space. Learn about the history of Hadoop, what business challenges it solves and why it has such widespread adoption. News - Latest Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:01:55 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/233/ An Introduction to FPGA Programming London, 20-21 April 2013 Organised by OSC member embecosm (http://www.embecosm.com/) A two day introductory workshop on field-programmable gate arrays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array) (FPGA) aimed at complete beginners with no prior experience of hardware description languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language) (HDL) and FPGA workflows. All original materials used in the workshop will be made available under open licences and published to GitHub. Free FPGA development systems will be given to the first five teachers that both register and complete the workshop. News - Latest Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:01:45 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/232/ Open Source Hardware User Group Meeting London, 18 April 2013, 6pm This event is organised by our friends the Open Source Hardware Group (http://oshug.org/) The second meeting of 2013 marking their third anniversary will feature a talk on writing embedded firmware and a panel discussion that will explore the future of open source hardware. Topics: Writing firmware for the AVR: A Morse Code Beacon Panel discussion: The Future of Open Source Hardware News - Latest Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:50 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/230/ Govt consultation on an information economy strategy On 7 February 2013 The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) opened a call for evidence on an Information Economy strategy. The working description is: the part of the economy where digital technologies and information combine to drive productivity and create new growth opportunities across the whole economy Our full response is available below, however in summary: we consider that in the same way that Cabinet Office failed in its open standards consultation to consider the consequences for the rest of the economy arising from its plans to make public services digital by default: Overall we find the consultation to be poorly framed and fails to identify [...] the interacting nature of its policy choices and account for their effects. Here there is a similar failure to consider the interaction of the information economy strategy with online public services, specifically, the risk that poorly implemented Information Economy strategy will interact badly with the implementation of online public services, creating further blocks rather than enablers. News - Latest Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:56:37 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/229/89/ We're grateful to "The Register" (http://www.theregister.co.uk) for drawing attention to the latest licensing information (http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/02/19/office-2013-and-office-365-installations-and-transferability.aspx) regarding (non) transferability of Microsoft Office licences. We think it's worth reading in conjunction with: new versions of Microsoft Outlook won't allow access to older format documents (http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2012/12/19/outlook-2013-deprecated-features-and-components.aspx) When is a saving not a saving? (plus ça change) (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/203/89/), and One Simple Thing (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/131/89/) not to suggest a narrative thread but as part of a broader canvas. After all there are documents from HMRC (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/228/89/) we can't read, among other problems. Blog - Blog Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:12:27 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/228/89/ Last March we reported on the government's reply (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/192/89) to an MP's question on Open Source Software and Open Standards. As we said then: it all hinges on what you mean by "wherever possible" (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/140/89/) and also that "wherever possible" includes "nowhere" (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/168/89/) so how are they doing?. Blog - Blog Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:26:37 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/227/89/ One of the roles any government professing liberal democratic values takes upon itself is to implement measures it considers will lead to a thriving market economy. While there are areas of modern life that some/many will consider cannot be met by relying on the market there does not appear to be a significant movement calling for a return to a planned economy. Except, it would seem to the casual observer, when we are discussing the knowledge or information economy in which it is necessary to consider “thought-through market mechanics”. Blog - Blog Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:26:21 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/226/ Open Source, Open Standards 2013 Thursday 18 April, London We are pleased to be supporting Open Source, Open Standards 2013 (http://opensourceconference.co.uk/), the leading summit exploring how to take full advantage of open technology solutions across the public sector, from delivering innovative and open IT services to driving savings. Programme: Open Source across government and the End User Device strategy Guidance on Open Source security The importance of Open Standards and interoperability Open Source and the future of Digital Government Implementing Open Source in Healthcare Meeting the 7 Open Standards principles for procurement Implementation of a council wide Open Source strategy News - Latest Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:50:52 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/225/91/ David A Wheeler (http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html) has developed an extensive evaluation guide to choosing open source software. His 2007 study (http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html)provides quantitative data that open source software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using the proprietary competition. Advocacy - Resources Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:06:17 +0100 http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/224/ Open Source Hardware User Group Meeting London, 21 February 2013, 6pm This event is organised by our friends the Open Source Hardware Group (http://oshug.org/) At their first meeting of 2013 there will be three topics: Nanode after two years Open Source Hardware Licensing Update Developing Open Source Hardware News - Latest Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:04:04 +0100