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OS4B Yorkshire Employers Forum

This is a sub-group of the OS4B project. It is designed for Business Owners and Upper level Managers to feed back into the project how to gain the best from our development money by informing the project where there is a shortage of skills.

The focus of this group is about leveraging the benefits for Open Source for their Business.

It is not a private group and exists as a virutal group as well as a physical group. There will be quarterly meetings for the members to meet and discuss matters of an open source and provide their feedback. Some time will also be given to reflecting on what the group has raised discussed through the online forum.

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Case studies - Free publicity

Dear All,

I am looking for some case study examples of how a company has been
helped by integrating technology into their business.

Both the supplier/company could expect some quite substantial PRO from
the exercise.

Contact me for some more details.

Kind regards

Geoff Gifford
nti Manager

Open source car: 'c,mm,n'

[link]
Interesting springwise report on this open source 'eco' car, started
in the Netherlands, built around a wiki.

Red Hat says: open source must act during downturn

[link]
Some interesting notes from the OSBC - Open Source Business Conference
in San Francisco.
Most prominently: Red Hat chief exec. Jim Whitehurst commenting on how
economic downturn can provide an opportunity for open source providers

Commercial distribution of open source 'Hadoop' software that underpins yahoo, facebook etc

Blog article on The Register about 'Cloudera' - using 'Hadoop' - the
open source technology from the Apache Foundation.
Includes discussion of how they plan to generate revenue, people
involved in the project and so forth. Worth a read:
[link]

Re: [os4b] 50 open source companies, products and people to follow on twitter

Real FOSS companies, products and people will be on the
OpenMicroBlogging system more than the closed twitter site. It's a
distributed twitter-like system with free and open source servers
available.
I'm on [link] and mensch.coop even run their own OMB
server.
Hope that's interesting,

Open Source Hardware blog post

50 open source companies, products and people to follow on twitter

Are you a tweeter? The so-called micro-blogging platform has exploded
into the mainstream recently and is touted as an incredibly useful
marketing tool / way of interacting with clients and a wider community.
Personally, I find Twitter a great way of keeping up to date with
breaking news and interesting links / articles. Also a great way of

Open Source Hardware blog post

Fairly interesting blog post on a potential 'open source hardware'
revolution..?
Make sure to read the comments.. providing more juicy content than the
post itself
[link]

Open source software for your car?

"During a time when the worldwide automotive industry is contracting,
it makes sense for industry members to gather together to create an
open-source platform rather than individually design and build
proprietary systems"
Fairly brief but interesting article around new open source car
platform..