Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Open Source New England Library Association Information Technology Section Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA June 6, 2007 Well, that was my first time live-blogging a conference, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. I frantically tried to transcribe as many of the speakers’ words [...]
Q: how do you keep OSS-powered systems, workstations secure? A: in general, Linux-based systems much more secure than Windows Q: Does DeepFreeze work with these? A: Most problems that DeepFreeze addresses are addressed throughout overall system of Userful system (Tyngsborough) Q: re: hosting costs for LibLime vs. commercial vendors A: typically 20-25% less than one [...]
Flavors of Open Source from Emacs to Ubuntu Wes Hamilton, WMRLS Founders of free software movement: Richard Stallman (GNU, FSF, GPLv2): felt that selling proprietary software was immoral Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel) [Amazingly complex Linux distro timeline chart...] http://distrowatch.com : currently, 350+ unique Linux distributions Overview of history/development of Linux distributions RedHat: most financially successful; [...]
Randy Robertshaw, Tyngsborough Public Library Running Linux Applications in a Public Library Discussion of OSS development cycle Innovators/early adopters, early majority, late majority…where are libraries? Key questions about OSS: 1.How mature is the solution? 2.Does your org have the skills? 3.Does the ROI meet your expectations? Maturity: How old is it? (Should be >2 years). [...]
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Elizabeth Thomsen “Hello world!” Software is easy! Can write Hello World! in many, many different languages. Loves the start of things; doesn’t like it when they get more complicated. Donald Knuth: “Art of Computer Programming.” Software is hard! 1962. Like Barbie. “Math is hard!” “Why can’t we design software the way we build bridges?” photo [...]
Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Open Source NELA ITS, Tower Hill Botanic Gardens, Boylston, MA Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Josh Ferraro, LibLime IT background, no library background Native of Ludlow, MA “Free Software Movement” opensource.org : “one of the spiritual centers of the open source movement” all about licensing most software licenses restrict [...]
I’m at Tower Botanic Gardens in Boylston, MA, attending a program on open source software that is sponsored by NELA. I’ll post my raw notes from the sessions here first, then digest them and add my comments later… Conference presentations will be available at http://www.nelib.org/its/