Posts Tagged ‘Interview’

Google Releases Open Source Webapp Security Tool

Security-minded developers will want to take note of Google’s newest open source application security tool, skipfish . It’s a fully automated web application that scans your web site looking for security holes and flaws. Skipfish is designed to work will several different kinds of web app frameworks, and is built to be speedy while still returning a low incidence of false positives.

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Google Summer of Code 2010 Mentors Announced

The Google Open Source Team team reviewed more than 365 applications before choosing the final 150 accepted mentoring organizations for this year’s Google Summer of Code . Some names on the list are a holdover from previous years, while others are new after Google “[bid a] fond farewell to some past participants in favor of bringing new projects into the program.” You can check out the whole list on the project’s Web site

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Google Summer of Code 2010 Mentors Announced

The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard’s University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics

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The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

Go Open – Bruce Perens Part 1 Full Interview


Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement, with a long and
distinguished record. He is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary
author of the Open Source Definitio…