Hackergartens help promote contributions to open source projects

Devoxx, the premier conference on the Java ecosystem in Europe, was one of the best I’ve been to recently. One session, a Hackergarten, introduced by Hamlet D’Arcy, was particularly interesting. The general idea was to turn participants into committers on open source projects. Here is how it works in practice: each committer advertizes his/her own [...]

Fast ESP to Lucene Solr migration

Microsoft has consistently announced, in February 2010, the withdrawal of support for Unix and Linux and for Fast ESP. This is, of course, for the publisher to sell its first OS and applications. Beyond Search also notes that Fast ESP is more or less available to Microsoft customers who buy large volumes of licenses or [...]

Open World Forum

Opening on Wednesday, September 22 and for three days of the Open World Forum, which will bring together in Paris the world of open source and freeware around three themes: Think, Code, Experiment. This first edition open to developers, managers and analysts aim to exchange and evaluate trends and to relay the state of the [...]