Comments on: Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/ Ramblings, Ravings and Rantings Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ciaran http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#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-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-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-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-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 :)

]]> By: cypher http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9063 cypher Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:25:50 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9063 Patrick excellent shall definately be taking you up on the offer! I'll give you a shout later on! Thanks ! Patrick excellent shall definately be taking you up on the offer! I’ll give you a shout later on! Thanks !

]]> By: stephen mulcahy http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9062 stephen mulcahy Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:21:28 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9062 Hey, Great to see an event like this happening in Ireland - I've been looking around for something interesting happening in Ireland/UK in relation to Linux and Open Source. What is the typical format of this conference? Will there be tutorials? Guest speakers? Some possible topics: 1. Java development on Linux (discussion of available tools, how well things work, maybe some real-life examples, debunking the myth that java is slow ...) 2. Subversion for SMEs - practical source code management. 3. Practical MySQL - from the basics to current capabilities like replication (and how well they work). 4. MySQL vs Postgres 5. Practical use of LDAP in your business. Given your past history of running Skycon I've no doubt this conference will go very well! There were some v. good speakers at last years LinuxConf.eu in Cambridge, I dunno if some of them would be interested in coming along. Thanks, -stephen Hey,

Great to see an event like this happening in Ireland - I’ve been looking around for something interesting happening in Ireland/UK in relation to Linux and Open Source.

What is the typical format of this conference? Will there be tutorials? Guest speakers?

Some possible topics:

1. Java development on Linux (discussion of available tools, how well things work, maybe some real-life examples, debunking the myth that java is slow …)
2. Subversion for SMEs - practical source code management.
3. Practical MySQL - from the basics to current capabilities like replication (and how well they work).
4. MySQL vs Postgres
5. Practical use of LDAP in your business.

Given your past history of running Skycon I’ve no doubt this conference will go very well!

There were some v. good speakers at last years LinuxConf.eu in Cambridge, I dunno if some of them would be interested in coming along.

Thanks,

-stephen

]]> By: Patrick Collison http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9060 Patrick Collison Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:37:17 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9060 From my language necrophilia, I'm happy to talk about badass interactive dev environments -- Genera from the Lisp machines of olde, SLIME and such from modern Lisp implementations, Squeak Smalltalk, etc. (Auctomatic was implemented in Smalltalk, and I've previously worked on my own Lisp dialect.) From my language necrophilia, I’m happy to talk about badass interactive dev environments — Genera from the Lisp machines of olde, SLIME and such from modern Lisp implementations, Squeak Smalltalk, etc.

(Auctomatic was implemented in Smalltalk, and I’ve previously worked on my own Lisp dialect.)

]]> By: David Coallier http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9049 David Coallier Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:38:39 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9049 <strong>Ireland PHP Developers & Speakers Stand up!...</strong> PHP Developers of Ireland and Europe, WHERE ARE YOU??? The Ireland PHP User Group and the overall technological community is trying to reach you.Laura Czajkowski and the Irish Developers Network had a great idea that all the technological communities... Ireland PHP Developers & Speakers Stand up!…

PHP Developers of Ireland and Europe, WHERE ARE YOU??? The Ireland PHP User Group and the overall technological community is trying to reach you.Laura Czajkowski and the Irish Developers Network had a great idea that all the technological communities…

]]> By: cypher http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9048 cypher Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:27 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2008/03/28/50/#comment-9048 Cheers niall I'll it to the list and see then if we can organise a speaker on it. Cheers niall I’ll it to the list and see then if we can organise a speaker on it.

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