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What is Open Source?

It's not public domain. Is it free software? Well, free has too many meanings. Open Source is copyrighted software that the author makes available under certain licenses that grant the user certain freedoms. Read more about it all at OpenSource.org.

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Open Source News

  • With Mapzy, you can add a beautiful store locator to your website without touching a line of code.
    Could this be a serious alternative to Google Maps?
  • Roboto … But Make It Flex
    Tweak just about all the aspects of Roboto in its latest release. 
  • ASIAIR: The Little Box That's Changed Astrophotography Big-Time
    looks like a pi that controls all your astrophotograpy stuff. 
  • Amplify Framework Documentation
    Interesting cross-platform cloud-based app framework. 
  • Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
    Looks like a capable replacement for evernote-type apps. 
  • SOFTWARE CATALOG NASA's Software Catalog
    hundreds of programs you can download for free to use in a wide variety of technical applications.
  • Top 12 Open Source Security Testing Tools
    most I've seen, a couple of new ones. Some specialized for databases, etc.
  • Open source no-code database and Airtable alternative
    We'll see how mature it is. 
  • An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities
    Sorta like an opensource evernote
  • Mailtrain Self Hosted Newsletter App Built on Top of Nodemailer
    Self-hosted email newsletter platform that uses commercial delivery for the actual sending. 
  • How to save up to 500€/year switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES
    For years there weren't good open source alternatives to commercial email marketing platforms. Seems to be changing now. 
  • An Interactive Web Dashboard with Plotly and Flask
    How does this compare with other visualization dashboards? 
  • A new kind of IDE for Data Science. Supercharge your Data Science workflow.
    Interesting take on visual workflow/pipelines inside an IDE. 
  • The (soon) open source search engine on object storage with sub-second latency
    Interesting project to build a low-cost web search. 
  • Netflix Open Sources ConsoleMe to Manage Permissions and Access on AWS
    Dealing with IAM is one of the most painful parts of AWS. Maybe this will help. 

Cloud Computing Meetup

Though not strictly open source, cloud computing has a number of open components: open APIs, underlying OS, etc. There's a Cloud Computing Atlanta meetup that has programs like Docker, an open-source Paas platform. If you're interested in Cloud, come out and learn.

Not Exacly Open Source

OK, this isn't exactly open-source, but readers may be interested in a local Atlanta meetup for Nerd Fun. Looks like they've had some interesting meetups. LAN party anyone?

Northeast Georgia Linux Meetup Forming

This in today's email: there's a Northeast Georgia Linux Meetup forming, up in Gainesville. Check them out and eat some pizza at Stevi B's on Browns Bridge Road. See you there.

A Walk on the Freeside

After wanting to go to a meeting of FreeSide Atlanta, I finally went last night. FreeSide is our local hardware makerspace, where members meet to build and modify physical/mechanical/electronic objects. There were about 25 in attendance, and the list of current builds and meetings was varied and impressive: designing and building an off-road wheelchair, UAV hexacopter, tutorial meetings on getting your no-code Tech amateur radio license, and 3D printing. They're helping with the upcoming mini-maker faire in October at Tech. If you haven't been yet, you should. Open houses are Tuesdays at 7:30, and other meetings as scheduled. Check out their meetup.com page and join the fun!

Big Data Meetup Forming

Handling Big Data is often the perview of Open Source: Hadoop and its bretheren. There's a Big Data Meetup forming. From the intro:

The Atlanta Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for organizations to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, we are at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from employees, contractors and technologists, Atlanta Big Data aims to focus on the specific Big Data issues, architectures and solutions related to the Big Data to include security, privacy, analytics and support for real-time operations. The intent of Atlanta Big Data isn’t solely technical, the Group strives to discuss, discover and communicate how Big Data solutions can be used to advance and support national security, energy, transportation, media, logistics, financial services, law enforcement, health care and education and many other areas that serve the community’s interests.

Atlanta OpenStack Meetup

OpenStack is an open cloud computing platform founded by Rackspace and backed by NASA, see openstack.org. It's to counter the proprietary cloud offerings of Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure. Ok, so maybe this doesn't exactly go under the 'operating systems' menu item, but it's pretty close.  From their meetup page:

This is the Atlanta OpenStack developer Meetup. We are a group of free software developers who are passionate about working together to help make the Openstack project a success!

Can't wait for the next meetup? Join us on IRC! We hang out on Freenode at #openstack-atlanta. See the Atlanta OpenStack Meetup page.

The Differnt Kinds of "Open"

Everyone in the open source commuinty remember the discussion a few years ago about what 'Free' means: 'free' as in 'beer' vs. 'free' as in 'speech.' Now it looks like we're embarking on figuring out the different kinds of 'open.' So I've written an article about the different kinds of open. Hope you enjoy.

Open Source and Jazz

See my latest personal blog post on Why Open Source Software is Like Jazz. Hope you like it.

So What's This Site All About?

This from my inbox this morning:

Can you tell me more about what you are trying to do with OSSAtlanta?

Fair Question. I replied:

I'm trying to do several things:

  1. Provide a single jumping-off point for users interested in Open Source in Atlanta
  2. In having been involved in user groups for 20+ years, I know one of the challenges is coming up with program material. By making it easier for user groups to find each other, I'm hopefully making it easier for the organizers to get ideas for future meetings. i.e. serving as a sort of 'speakers bureau'. An example is Mike Warfield's upcoming two-part IPv6 talks. The first part will be at ALE next month, and the second part will be at an upcoming AUUG meeting.
  3. I'm trying to foster cross-pollination of ideas from one group to another. Example: I'm suggesting a couple of programs for the Joomla and Drupal users' groups: Drupal for Joomla Users and Joomla for Drupal Users.

His reply back was: Have you ever thought of having a list of speakers and topics that they have presented for organizers to look through. This way they can get ideas or just contact that person to come and speak.

I thought that was a great idea and I'll try to get that going in the near future. Keep those cards and letters coming in!

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