d-SY FLOSS Special Interest Group - Supporting Free and Open Source Software in South Yorkshire

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>Introducing d-SY FLOSS SIG...

This Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to assist South Yorkshire companies gain competitive advantage by adoption of FLOSS technology. Emphasis is on leveraging FLOSS to support the development of new technologies, products and services leading to wealth creating opportunities for the regional economy.

In support of these aims, the special interest group will...

Provide a single point of contact for FLOSS related resources in the region, including a regular newsletter;
Coordinate a series of technical workshops including presentations by key developers of major FLOSS projects of interest to the region;
Identify skills shortages in FLOSS technology within participating organisations and work with partners to address these.

>Our March newsletter is now available for download.

This edition features reviews of recent FLOSS-SIG activities...

"Whatever happened to Virtual Reality?", Professor Bob Stone
"Software Engineering - Theory & Open Source Practice", Alan Cox
"Land Informations Systems Project", Megan Larko
"Content Management with Zope/Plone", Aiden McGuire & Matt Lee

Also included are details of forthcoming d-SY events including the presentation on 28 March when Richard Voaden from IBM will be coming to Sheffield

Any changes to the programme will be published on the d-SY Events page as they become available.

Previous issues of the newsletter contain the following main articles...

The SAMBA Roadmap
Linux at the Movies
Software Patents
Genii of the LAMP / Embedding Linux / UK Patent Office Workshops
An in-depth report on June's Open Source For Education seminar
Report from the LinuxWorld Conference sessions at Olympia
FLOSS-SIG activity report for 2005

To participate and receive advance notification of regional events related to FLOSS please...

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...and make FLOSS work for South Yorkshire

If you are new to FLOSS, here are some really good places to start...

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