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OSS: OSI on Licensing, Google Code-in (GCI), "Open Source Has Turned the Software Industry Upside-Down" and LibreOffice Community Member Monday

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 8th of January 2019 05:58:33 AM Filed under
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  • December 2018 License-Review List Summary
  • December 2018 License-Discuss List Summary

    I've been asked to provide monthly summaries of the license-review and license-discuss mailing lists. The summaries will also be posted on their respective lists, though this blog version includes detailed links into the list archives. Any feedback is welcome, though replies on the content should of course be made to the original threads.

  • Andre Klapper: Wikimedia in Google Code-in 2018

    Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual seven week long contest for 14–17-year-old students exploring free and open source software projects. Organizations, such as the Wikimedia community, offer small tasks in the areas of code, documentation, outreach, research, and design. Students who complete tasks receive a digital certificate and a shirt from Google. The top students in every participating organization win a visit of Google’s headquarters. Students can directly experience how large online projects are organized, collaborate with humans across the planet, and the students’ accepted work is made available to millions of worldwide users.

    For the sixth time, Wikimedia was one of 27 participating organizations which offered tasks mentored by community members.

  • How Open Source Has Turned the Software Industry Upside-Down

    Open source has transformed how the software industry works. Open source makes the cloud possible. And adopting open source changes how companies do business, driving greater transparency and frankness.

    Without open source, you don't get the cloud. "Open source made it cheap and easy to build services you could rent to people," says John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare Inc. , which provides security and performance services for online businesses. "It's hard to imagine making something like WhatsApp or Netflix if they had to license Windows Server, Visual Studio and other proprietary tools." (See Cloudflare Wants to Protect the Whole Internet – Legacy Apps, IoT, the Works.)

    Cloud operators need to be able to customize code to deliver necessary performance and capabilities. A vendor would say no to that kind of custom coding, or charge a prohibitive price, Graham-Cumming says.

    "There are many things that it would have been too expensive to build if you had licensed the code from someone else," he says.

  • Community Member Monday: José Gatica and Andika Triwidada

    LibreOffice is the work of hundreds of volunteers and certified developers across the globe. Today we speak to two members of the community about their activities and experiences in the project!

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