NYCBUG is now on Facebook
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
NYCBUG announced that it now has a Facebook group. It was started by a couple of concerned NYCBUGgers. The membership is open to all Facebook members and not limited to just the NYC BSD User’s Group (NYCBUG).
If you’re aware of any other BSD related groups or events with their own facebook page, please let me know by leaving a comment below.
How the FreeBSD Project’s Processes Help Companies Build Products
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
George Neville-Neil has written the lead article for the January issue of the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) and the FreeBSD Foundation is the sponsor for this month’s issue. The entire issue is available as a PDF and George’s article is also available in HTML.
From the article’s abstract:
The processes that open source projects use to produce new work and maintain the quality of their code base is a subject that comes up infrequently in discussions of open source. One reason for this is that engineers and programmers are usually loathe to deal with issues that are not directly related to the piece of code or technology that they are working on.
FreeBSD Project receives Bad Code Offset
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
The Bad Code Offsets project of The Alliance for Code Excellence is
“a way to undo the bad code other people have written without actually replacing the bad code. Much like carbon offsets, money used to buy Bad Code Offsets goes towards open-source projects which not only produce good code, but produce software that helps developers build good software”.
The FreeBSD Project was recently added as a supported project and the FreeBSD Foundation will be receiving a check for $500. Thanks to those who suggested the FreeBSD project be added and to the Alliance for supporting good code!
Source: FreeBSD Foundation Blog