Viewing blog entries by the tag 'open source'

While I'm a writer, not a programmer, there are things I've taken from the open source philosophy. And the main one is: be open to good ideas coming from the people around you. And give them a try.

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As we approach the two-year anniversary of releasing our software under an open source license, I thought I'd write a bit about where we see things going. BTW, the official birthday of our open source software is 10 October 2006.

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Last night, Brian, Sig, and I attended the NZ Open Source Awards.  We were finalists in two categories: Open Source Use in Business and Open Source Software Project.  State Services Commission was also a finalist for the National Broadband Map, which we developed.

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Over twenty finalists have now been announced for this year's New Zealand Open Source awards.

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We are frequently asked (primarily by business people) why SilverStripe is developed with an open development model.

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Thanks to everyone who nominated SilverStripe for "most promising open-source CMS" in the Packtpub CMS Awards. We're excited to say that (like last year), we're one of the finalists!

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Help us to gain exposure and money to further our software in the Open Source CMS Awards!

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Late last year, Google launched a global software contest for highschool students called the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. The contest boasted some impressive statistics: nearly 400 students around the world contributed a total of about 1000 tasks for ten software projects over a very busy two-month period.

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The main global awards for our type of software kick off next week, run by U.K. based technical book company, PacktPub.

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