Archive for the “Open Source” category
All the Plone Strategic Planning Updates in one place
by Christian Scholz on March 2, 2008
If you want to stay up to date with at least the tickets changes of the Plone Strategic Planning Summit then it’s right now a little bit hard as the report only shows the tickets with the keyword set but (…)
TopfCast #003: SXSW, the Second Life backlash and FOSDEM 2008
by Christian Scholz on February 28, 2008
The Podcast Download as extended podcast (m4a, 40MB, 42:56) Download as MP3 (40MB, 42:56) How to reach me? E-Mail: mrtopf@gmail.com Shownotes SXSW Festival SXSW music showcase as Torrent (3.5 GB) SXSW Music Showcase List of titles of the SXSW music (…)
Second Life Windlight hits release
by Christian Scholz on February 27, 2008
(photo by Andromega) Linden Lab‘s Windlight version of the Second Life Viewer will soon be available as the standard viewer. As Soft Linden on the Second Life Open Source Developers mailing lists just announced it will be part of the (…)
FOSDEM 2008: About OWASP
by Christian Scholz on February 25, 2008
Rogan Dawes talked about the OWASP project. OWASP stands for “Open Web Application Security Project” and is a non-profit organization dedicated to “enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain application that can be trusted” (cites from the website). One important (…)
FOSDEM 2008: Introducting the ApacheSolr Module for Drupal
by Christian Scholz on February 24, 2008
speaker: Robert Douglasssubtitle: Next Generation Drupal search He first wants to assert that searching for content on drupal.org can be problematic. N00bs complain about it, like “cannot find anything”, “why not use Google”? Robert back then in 2004 suggested to (…)
FOSDEM 2008: Asset Management with Drupal
by Christian Scholz on February 24, 2008
The Asset module was explained by Wim Mostrey. It consists of a collection of asset submodules, e.g. for embedding YouTube videos. When you have the Asset module installed you have a wizard available which allows you to choose an asset, (…)
FOSDEM 2008: Usability in Drupal
by Christian Scholz on February 24, 2008
Thomas Moseler is talking about usability in Drupal. He wants to improve it and showed some stuff. As a good examples he showed the Apple iPod and the Nintendo Wii. As a bad example he showed an airplane cockpit (although (…)
FOSDEM 2008: Mozilla Weave
by Christian Scholz on February 23, 2008
Dan Mills presented the Mozilla Weave project. The Problem The problem right now is that with using multiple browsers you create small data silos. Additionally you create them with all the services you use. The idea now is to weave (…)
FOSDEM 2008: Mozilla Europe
by Christian Scholz on February 23, 2008
First Brian King was giving a small intro and asked everybody to introduce himself in the room (quite a lot of people). So there have been lots of Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox/SunBird/ … developers, lots of Q&A people, lots of people from all (…)
FOSDEM 2008
by Christian Scholz on February 22, 2008
FOSDEM 2008 will be on this weekend in Brussels. I decided spontaneous to go there, so if you are there too, please drop me a line at mrtopf@gmail.com! Probably I will mostly be at the lightning talks. Not sure about (…)
