Comments for Open Source Specialist Group

Comment on Hadoop Session – London 01/05/2013 by Andres Baravalle

Andres Baravalle — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:48:28 +0000

VMware announced in June last year Serengeti, an Open Source project aiming to enable users and companies to quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop on virtual infrastructure.

Roberto Zicari has interviewed Joe Russell, VMware, Product Line Marketing here: http://www.odbms.org/blog/2013/04/on-virtualize-hadoop-interview-with-joe-russell/

Comment on Chip Hack – London 20-21/3/2013 by Andres Baravalle

Andres Baravalle — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:28:12 +0000

Hi Ian – thanks for spotting this. I have now updated the entry.

Comment on Chip Hack – London 20-21/3/2013 by IanJohnson

IanJohnson — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:25:01 +0000

Hi,
The dates for this event in the ‘Red Box’ and the Forthcoming Events list show 25-26 April, yet i’s happening this weekend (20-21!) It’d be nice if the incorrect dates could be adjusted.

Comment on Making use of OpenStreetMap Data – Southampton 18/3/2013 by Andres Baravalle

Andres Baravalle — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:05:13 +0000

Mike has now circulated the slides for his talk – they are available from here: http://www.bcs.org/content/ConMediaFile/21778

Comment on Open Educational Resources – London 20/02/2013 by Andres Baravalle

Andres Baravalle — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:35:35 +0000

Ella has circulated the slides of the presentation – they are available here: http://bayfiles.com/file/IG0l/P8Fctv/BSC_OER_slides_final.pptx

Comment on Can Open Source alter and potentially remove the concept of unemployment in the UK? – London 03/05/12 by markelkins

markelkins — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:11:51 +0000

A streamed mp3 recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/KMyb9z

Comment on Looking into the Future of HMG Desktop/Client side computing – London 04/04/12 by markelkins

markelkins — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:02:28 +0000

An unedited mp3 streamed recording of this event is now available in four parts as follows:

Part A – http://bit.ly/HXhrsW

Part B – http://bit.ly/HXhLIb

Part C – http://bit.ly/HXhPb1

Part D – http://bit.ly/HXhSn8

Comment on Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS – London 29/03/12 by markelkins

markelkins — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:45:25 +0000

An unedited recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/H684a7

Comment on Open Source, Open Minds: Using web technologies to rescue geospatial data from the back office – London 03/11/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:14:42 +0000

An unedited recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/rzLodM

Comment on Open Source knowledge/skills gaps across HM Government â€“ Part 3: Discuss the skills required to do open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) â€“ London 31/10/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:14:59 +0000

An unedited recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/u3nBCV

Comment on Open Source Software Meets Open Source Hardware: OpenCores and the OpenRISC 1000 architecture – London 17/10/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:01:04 +0000

An unedited 2 part recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/oVrlJT (Part A) and http://bit.ly/p42xom (Part B)

Comment on Investigating Open Approaches to Education and Training in the Public Sector – London 30/06/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:11:04 +0000

An unedited 2 part recording of this event is available at: http://bit.ly/kTQwZD (Part A) and http://bit.ly/krs5Ti (Part B)

Comment on Open Source knowledge/skills gaps across HM Government â€“ Part 2: Discuss the skills required to build Content Management Systems (CMS) â€“ London 09/06/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:57:48 +0000

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Comment on Open Source knowledge/skills gaps across HM Government – Part 1: Business Intelligence Software – London 21/04/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:55:05 +0000

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Comment on Management of Open Source Software and Third Party Intellectual Property – London 25/01/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:00:00 +0000

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Comment on Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 01/03/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:47:01 +0000

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Comment on Open Source and Outsourced IT? by markelkins

markelkins — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:36:28 +0000

The following may have some relevance when considering Open Source and Outsourced IT:

“There is a de facto tendency in written material about internal marketing to refer to permanent employees of an organization and never mention other kinds of worker. An important issue that may impact on the success of internal marketing is the use of contract and other staff who work
for an organization alongside permanent staff but who are nevertheless not employees. For example it is not uncommon for such staff not to be re-employed by an organization in the UK after a successful software project is completed [35]. Although such staff might be treated as if they were
permanent employees for the duration of their contract it is perhaps questionable how well the internal marketing attributes set out in Table 1 can be applied to them as intended by the theory and possibly the spirit of internal marketing. For instance they might not want to participate in an open exchange of ideas because by giving away their knowledge they might consider this reduces the need for the organization to employ them. Also dependent upon the duration of their contract they might not have the chance or motivation to fully gain the knowledge implied within some of these attributes such as staff awareness of marketing campaigns or the product/service portfolio” (Elkins, Ross, Staples, and DupÃ©e 2008).

Reference

Elkins, M., Ross, M., Staples, G., and DupÃ©e, B. (2008). Internal Marketing to Elicit Conceptual
Needs for Internal Software. WORLDCOMP’08 Congress, 14Â17 th July 2008, Las Vegas, USA.

Comment on Adoption of Open Source across HM Government â€“ London 22/02/11 by markelkins

markelkins — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:23:51 +0000

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Comment on Open Source as Open Innovation: Creating and Capturing Value in Value Networks – London 02/12/10 by markelkins

markelkins — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:50:22 +0000

An unedited mp3 recording of this event is located at:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bx5wHD1gaZr6YjlmMjg1MTMtMjJhNi00Nzk1LTgyODYtMzQ2YWZmZjRkYWVk&hl=en

A copy of the slides used at the event by Lorraine are located at: http://ossg.bcs.org/wp-content/uploads/BCS_group_pres.odp

Comment on Experiences with Distributed Version Control – Ready for the Enterprise? – London 25/11/10 by markelkins

markelkins — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:08:36 +0000

An unedited recording in mp3 format is available at: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0Bx5wHD1gaZr6MGU5OGZkMGQtYmI1Ni00ZmQzLTg0OGUtM2U4MmQ0ODQyMGVm&export=download&hl=en This has now become a streamed download at: http://interact.bcs.org/mp3/251110.mp3 Photos: