ShareSource Podcast Notes

January the 6^th, 2008

In this episode:

• ShareSource's 1^st Birthday, and what it means
• Why was ShareSource created
• ShareSource2 and it's new features
• Why should you and your company go open source
• What ShareSource wishes to do to help create innovation
• OpenForge, what it is and who it is

Show Notes

• Hello, Welcome, introductions
• ShareSource birthday
  • 200 projects
    • http://sharesource.org/project/openkremlin/
    • http://beta.sharesource.org/project/openkremlin/
    • http://echoreply.us/tech/2007/12/28/sharesource-looks-rather-promising/
• Why was ShareSource created?
  • Lack of simple, easy to use systems to develop software
    • Proprietory lock-in: Launchpad / Sourceforge
    • It's (ShareSource) comming open source!!!!!
• ShareSource2's new features
  • Mailman integration
  • ACL's
  • News
  • Wiki
• Aiming to create innovation:
  • Open-source software has often is most often based on others idea, ie unorigional and not innovative, what can ShareSource do to help projects to be innovative?
• The "OpenForge" consortium
  • API for data to be distributed, and what it could be used for.