Friday, July 23, 2010

Friday Keynotes


Friday Keynotes



The State of Open Source, Chris Dibona
Google Code search Crawl
40m unique files
3b loc (an admitted bad measurement)
Showed license use over time 2008-2010 – people are leaving minority licenses for GPL, BSD, Apache
Showed language use pattern: c, c++, java, scripting, fortran
The most prolific developers:
- RMS or Torvalds - RMS
- Juno Hamano (Git) vs Greg Stien (SVN) - Hamano, he is a machine

Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams
“America's open source city”
City has a mandate to open their code and data
Welcomes everyone to move their business to Portland
Open source: licensing, access to source code, willingness to collaborate
30-40 layers of government just in this city (others are like it)
“Civic apps”
Welcome to move family and business to Porland