Comments on: Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/ Ramblings, Ravings and Rantings Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ciaran http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/comment-page-1/#comment-9128 Ciaran Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:31:21 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9128 I am very interested in attending. If you though I had any aspect of the following that people would be interested in then I would be happy to give a brief talk or perhaps a questions and answers session. Just as background my experience with open source… We “discovered” the ACS in 1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_Community_System which was an open source toolkit created by Arsdigita run by Philip Greenspun. Myself and Michael Hinds got interested and we figured the system out in our spare time. Back at a point in ’99 the .com bubble was growing and things got a little bit quiet in here with relation to work coming in. We were given some time to research the ACS in work here. After about a week we landed a project for Oceanfree called http://my.oceanfree.net “pick my interests” portal type system (funded by ads etc). We then did http://www.bestadvice.ie/ Insurance brokers information, product comparison, comparative quotations (funded by ads and subscriptions). And http://www.xtender.com search and browse EU tenders in 12 Eu languages, push tenders to people based on preferences (funded by subscriptions). These have all been taken over by different software houses or the clients themselves for commercial reasons (and even rewritten perhaps). We then did http://bookings.xscapeonline.co.uk (with Openacs) booking system for indoor real snow ski slopes, capacity control, finance, web bookings, online payments. There’s 3 of these now. We then started to work on AIMS http://www.totalaims.com based on the Openacs and the rest is history… Most of this stuff has been put on Linux. I am very interested in attending. If you though I had any aspect of the following that people would be interested in then I would be happy to give a brief talk or perhaps a questions and answers session.

Just as background my experience with open source…
We “discovered” the ACS in 1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_Community_System which was an open source toolkit created by Arsdigita run by Philip Greenspun. Myself and Michael Hinds got interested and we figured the system out in our spare time. Back at a point in ’99 the .com bubble was growing and things got a little bit quiet in here with relation to work coming in. We were given some time to research the ACS in work here.
After about a week we landed a project for Oceanfree called http://my.oceanfree.net “pick my interests” portal type system (funded by ads etc).
We then did http://www.bestadvice.ie/ Insurance brokers information, product comparison, comparative quotations (funded by ads and subscriptions).
And http://www.xtender.com search and browse EU tenders in 12 Eu languages, push tenders to people based on preferences (funded by subscriptions).
These have all been taken over by different software houses or the clients themselves for commercial reasons (and even rewritten perhaps).
We then did http://bookings.xscapeonline.co.uk (with Openacs) booking system for indoor real snow ski slopes, capacity control, finance, web bookings, online payments. There’s 3 of these now.

We then started to work on AIMS http://www.totalaims.com based on the Openacs and the rest is history…

Most of this stuff has been put on Linux.

]]> By: stephen mulcahy http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/comment-page-1/#comment-9073 stephen mulcahy Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:15:13 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9073 Phew, let me think about it - preparing talks takes time! Phew, let me think about it – preparing talks takes time!

]]> By: Czajkowski » Open Source Conf - topics/talks/speakers so far http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/comment-page-1/#comment-9066 Czajkowski » Open Source Conf - topics/talks/speakers so far Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:01:32 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9066 [...] Full list and comments are here. [...] [...] Full list and comments are here. [...]

]]> By: Noirin http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/comment-page-1/#comment-9065 Noirin Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:08:56 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9065 I'd be happy to talk about (in rough order of preference) Open Source - More Than Code; Understanding Open Source Licenses; Open Source - Collaboration Tools. I’d be happy to talk about (in rough order of preference) Open Source – More Than Code; Understanding Open Source Licenses; Open Source – Collaboration Tools.

]]> By: cypher http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/comment-page-1/#comment-9064 cypher Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:30:57 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9064 Stephen, thanks for the vote of confidence, but this tie I'm only giving a hand :) THere are others doing stuff also, we just need to get the site up and running with the information. Those are very interesting topics, are you offering to discuss some/any of them :) Stephen, thanks for the vote of confidence, but this tie I’m only giving a hand :) THere are others doing stuff also, we just need to get the site up and running with the information.

Those are very interesting topics, are you offering to discuss some/any of them :)

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