By Christian Pothmann on Nov 2, 2005
This page contains links to useful background information on Open Source.
Please contribute!
I suggest however that no links to Open Source Projects are put here; I intend to start another page with useful Open Source Software. Otherwise this page would become a bit overloaded.
Portals
http://www.oreilly.de/opensource
http://opensource.mit.edu
http://wizards-of-os.org
Overview
10 myths - O'Reilly's Article on Open Sourcehttp://www.oreilly.de/opensource/os_artikel/myths_1199.html
How to evaluate Open Source S/Whttp://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html
Steffen Evers' Diploma Thesis (2000)http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tron/opensource
Volker Grassmuck: ...
By Robert Schumann on Oct 18, 2005
I am a Linux enthusiast who would like to see a higher Linux/OSS profile in Zambia. To that end, I have been hatching various ideas related to setting up a Linux User Group, and was surprised when I was directed to this website.
I know that some attempts have been made at promoting the OSS community:
ZLUG on Dgroups, which is a closed mailing list clearly not fulfilling the function ...
By Leo Nelson on Oct 4, 2005
We are happy to announce the next it@ab Conference. The International Conference on Free and Open Source Software “Smooth integration of Open Source Software into existing software environments” will take place on the 18th and 19th of October 2005 in the Taj Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
The Registration Process for the Conference participation ends on the 5th of October 2005! More details in terms of the registration process, sponsorship ...