LuSql

Last month, the National Research Council of Canada released a "simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from relational databases" under the Apache license. More information is available from the LuSql website.

Upcoming LPI Webcasts

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) will mark its 10th Anniversary in 2009. To recognize this milestone they will be undertaking a number of new initiatives, including the launch of the LPIC-3 Security elective (February 1, 2009) and the new LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams (April 1, 2009).

LPI will also host a number of informative and educational webcasts to provide information on their certification program and assist candidates with exam preparation. They invite everyone to participate in a pilot summit on December 17, 2008 to develop an audience profile for future events in 2009. You can register here. LPI appreciates your feedback on these presentations, ideas for future webcasts, or even volunteers who might want to provide their own presentations.

Free Geek in Canada

Free Geek, originally founded in Portland, Oregon in 2000, is a "not for profit community organization that recycles used technology to provide computers, education, internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service". The first Canadian Free Geek was launched in Vancouver in late 2006 and Ottawa is awaiting its application approval. Dave Sampson from the Free Geek Ottawa Working Group gave a 5 minute lightning talk at the last OSBootCamp in Ottawa. The entire evening is available here, with Dave's talk beginning around the 12.5 minute mark.

Black Duck Software Busts Myths About Application Development

Today, Black Duck Software released a summary of their findings regarding five common myths about using open source in application development. The myths are:

1. Open Source is just source code


2. Open Source adoption is mostly application infrastructure


3. There are a few billion lines of code out there


4. Real programmers do NOT comment


5. GPL Version 3 is being ignored

OSBR readers may remember Black Duck Software from the article Improving Application Development by Managing Licensing Issues and the TIM Lecture The State of Open Source Software and Corporate Software Development.

December Issue of OSBR Available

The December issue is now available in HTML and PDF formats. The theme this month is "Enabling Innovation".

The theme for the upcoming January issue is "Enterprise Participation" and the guest editor is Donald Smith from the Eclipse Foundation. Submissions for this issue are due by December 22--contact the Editor if you would like to submit an article or any news or events.