Archive for the “Open Source” category
The growing appeal of online collaboration. On Google Wave and EtherPad
by Christian Scholz on December 6, 2009
If you look around on the web these days, it really seems that online collaboration is taking off. It started small with the likes of e.g. Google Docs which only has limited and not real-time collaboration facilities. But only recently (…)
Tomorrow is World Plone Day!
by Christian Scholz on November 7, 2008
Tomorrow is a big day! In 22 countries on five continents lots of Plone folks will gather and explain what Plone is, why they love it and how you can use it! All in all over 50 events will happen (…)
The Second Life Foundation
by Christian Scholz on May 7, 2008
One topic of the interview with Philip Rosedale at SLCamp was (of course) the change of the trademark policy for the Linden Lab trademarks such as “Second Life”, “SL” and so on. Here is a quote from Philip from the (…)
Sorrento Sprint 2008: Introductions (Video)
by Christian Scholz on March 26, 2008
It’s on again, the second Sorrento sprint in South Italy (rainy but nice view nevertheless) is on. 40 Plone programmers meet to bring the Plone project forward again. Here are the introductions of those who are here already; (If you (…)
FOSDEM Videos are online!
by Christian Scholz on March 13, 2008
Only 2 weeks after the FOSDEM most of the videos are online already, so check them out at the FOSDEM Video page. The lightning talks are mostly online, too. Just have a look at the lightning talk page. I personally (…)
Linden Lab releases first draft of the Second Life Open Grid Protocol
by Christian Scholz on March 11, 2008
On September 13th 2007 Linden Lab started a project to create an open protocol for interconnecting Second Life like grids. The aim was to a) make Second Life more scalable and b) to enable everybody to run their own server (…)
Looking for talks for FrOSCon 2008!
by Christian Scholz on March 10, 2008
In August 2008 it will happen again: The german Free and Open Source Conference 2008 (FrOSCon), happening from August 23-24 in Sankt Augustin, close to Bonn. Something is still missing though: YOU! We actually need speakers and it can be (…)
Plone and Social Networking
by Christian Scholz on March 6, 2008
As I pointed out here and here, one of the upcoming challenges for every CMS out there will be support for social networking. If companies want to leverage new ways of marketing in which a “who” counts more than a (…)
Microformats in Plone
by Christian Scholz on March 3, 2008
Microformats are a standard which gets adopted more and more. Many modern social networking sites support it and many projects around these such as the Data Portability Group look at them as potential standards for exchanging information. I posted yesterday (…)
The XFN microformat and a spider in Python
by Christian Scholz on March 3, 2008
One microformat which is one of the more used ones is XFN. XFN stands for XHTML Friends Network and is about marking links to the pages of your contacts and friends. Additionally you can use XFN to mark links to (…)
