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Thiruvananthapuram, March 3:
The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has completed the first batch of training in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
This will help students get started on programming for this emerging domain, said Satish Babu, Director of the centre.
The international centre started work on IoT and open hardware in 2012 with prototypes using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
It now plans to continue the work with sensors, including for applications such as sensor-based pesticide residue detection in vegetables and sensor clusters for macro- and micro-nutrients in soil and air quality monitoring, Babu added.
The hands-on training on IoT introduced 20 participants to the MicroHOPE controller board, a low-cost programmable controller developed by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
The participants were students drawn from engineering colleges from across Kerala. The skills learnt would enable them to take up further work on their own, particularly in developing new applications using the controller and free software-based tools as part of the main project in their curriculum.
IoT is the third generation Internet application that aims to connect the physical world to the cyber world through a combination of sensors and sensor networks, actuators, cloud-based repositories and analytics and decision-support systems.
Much of the emerging innovations today are centred on IoT, and it is largely in the domain of free and open source software.
The market for IoT is expected to cross $7 trillion by 2020, Babu said.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAR 3:
The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has completed the first batch of training for Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
This would help students get started on programming for this emerging domain, said Satish Babu, director of the centre.
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
The international centre started work on IoT and open hardware in 2012 with prototypes using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
It now plans to continue the work with sensors, including for applications such as sensor-based pesticide residue detection in vegetables and sensor clusters for macro- and micro-nutrients in soil and air quality monitoring, Babu added.
The hands-on training on IoT introduced 20 participants to the MicroHOPE controller board, a low-cost programmable controller developed by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
The participants were students from engineering colleges from across Kerala. The skills learnt would enable them to take up further work on their own, particularly in developing new applications using the controller and free software-based tools as part of the main project in their curriculum.
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IoT is the third-generation Internet that aims to connect the physical world to the cyber world through a combination of sensors and sensor networks, actuators, cloud-based repositories and analytics and decision-support systems.
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A team of open source evangelists is working within the General Services Administration as part of a federal initiative for more transparent government use of technology.
18F, a development unit within the GSA, was established a year ago to tap into the success of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Services unit by pursuing a similar strategy.
The unit is tasked with getting developers from Silicon Valley and the ranks of civic developers all over the country to change how federal technology gets done. The hub of this push for open source consolidation for government agencies is 18F's GitHub account.
This open source team, however, is only focused on establishing an open source model for software projects developed within federal agencies. It has a hands-off attitude toward integrating free and open source software as a replacement for proprietary licensed commercial software.
"There is no focus yet on integrating front-end open source products to replace proprietary software in government agencies...we are really more about custom software development in the open," Greg Godbout, executive director of the General Services Administration's 18F, told LinuxInsider.
18F opened its doors last March. The relatively small unit began operations as a transition team of eight members. The group banded together after an initial fellowship program ended.
The idea to start an open source centered movement within the GSA grew out of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program. The concept involved bringing highly-skilled technologists into the government, according to Hillary Hartley, deputy executive director of the General Services Administration's 18F.
The idea grew into a plan to get the same folks who participated in the temporary open source program to permanently join the government. At the end of 2013, a number of fellows who had been together found a way to get funding so they could continue working the program after their six-month fellowships ended.
"Eight of us in December [2013] stayed on in the GSA as an in-house consultancy team for the rest of the government. The program has grown from there," Hartley told LinuxInsider.
At the beginning of last year, the 18F consultants recognized that they needed to focus on hiring and the process of deploying websites. With open source concepts in mind, they focused on how to hire efficiently and how to work effectively with the rest of the GSA.
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(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Open source software can give entrepreneurs an added advantage said an expert at the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FOSSC) 2015 at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) which began on Wednesday.
"Open source and entrepreneurship attract the same mind-set' said Patrick Sinz director of Digital Freedom Foundation in Hong Kong.
Open source software as opposed to closed source software allows users to modify programmes to suit their needs and is free of charge. These aspects help entrepreneurs help sustain enterprises Sinz said adding "Most entrepreneurs and people in open source like to create activities and they don't want to ask for permission. They want to be free to try [any software].
I would encourage all entrepreneurs especially those in IT sector to use open source' Sinz added 'It's a very different business model and is growing very fast.' The two-day conference is jointly being organised by SQU and Information Technology Authority (ITA) and seeks to support the national initiative on free and open source software (FOSS) which was launched in 2010.
FOSS has trained 1200 people and held more than 70 workshops according to Omar al Shanfari deputy CEO-operations ITA.
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Facebook is now contributing more to external open source projects and keeping closer tabs on its own open source efforts
Blake Matheny, Infrastructure Engineering, Facebook.
Thanks to some applied discipline, Facebook is reaping greater benefits from its efforts around open source software.
The social network has relied on open source since its inception, but it didn't formalized those efforts until 2013 when infrastructure engineer Blake Matheny started overseeing its open source projects.
The company relies almost exclusively on open source to serve its billion-plus users. Having the source code for software it uses allows it to easily make changes that suit its needs. Its engineers have modified many programs, including MySQL, JavaScript and PHP, so they can better serve its massive user base.
With so many users, "we faced a lot of new challenges that the software wasn't designed for," Matheny said Wednesday in a talk at the Linux Summit in Santa Rosa, California. "So we work hard to try to improve them."
The company's React JavaScript framework, for instance, was the result of its effort to improve JavaScript, while its Hip Hop Virtual Machine optimized PHP to run more quickly. It has made both those tools open sourced to get input from other developers.
Relying on open source also helps Facebook's new technical hires get up to speed quickly. "If you have to wait six months for an engineer to get trained on some proprietary internal system, that is time wasted, " Matheny said.
Facebook has maintained 235 open source projects on GitHub, consisting of more than 10 million lines of code. The software covers all aspects of running an Internet service, including data management, security, Web design, mobile computing, and infrastructure management.
Posting code it developed in house has helped Facebook in numerous ways. "It makes us write better software," Matheny said. Knowing their work will be exposed to other developers means its engineers write cleaner, more modular code that's less inextricably tied to other Facebook programs.
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Pivotalthe rather ambitious business software outfit spun off from big-name tech companies EMC and VMwareis open sourcing three of its key products, sharing the underlying software code with the world at large.
Today, the San Francisco-based company announced that in the coming year, it will open source GemFire, HAWQ, and GreenplumDB, three big data tools designed to help businesses analyze large amounts of digital information. Our customers are starting to look to open source, and theyre looking to projects that have communities around them, says Pivotals Sunny Madra, who oversees the companys data work. Customers want a say in the direction of software.
The move is yet another sign that the world of business software is changing, moving away from proprietary software built and licensed by individual vendors like Oracle and Microsoft, towards open source tools that anyone can freely use and modify. With so many businesses now erecting their online operations atop open source software, were even seeing the traditional vendors change their approach.
Microsoft is open sourcing some of its key software tools. And Pivotal, with its roots in old-school software companies VMware and Greenplum, is another notable example. The company previously offered an open source cloud computing tool called Cloud Foundry as well as software based on the open source data-crunching software Hadoop, and now, its open sourcing the rest of its major tools.
Pivotal is doing this in a way that a broader foundation of vendors and end users can collaborate on this software, says Shaun Connolly, vice president of corporate strategy at open source software company Hortonworks, which plans to work in tandem with Pivotal on these tools. The expectation this days is that software be driven through an open source model.
Pivotal plans to open source HAWQ and GreenplumDB through the Apache Software Foundation and push the GemFire code into the community that oversees the open source database PostgreSQL. This should mean not only that the code is freely available to anyone, but that a broad community of developerssome inside Pivotal, others outsidewill drive the evolution of these tools. Like many other open source software companies, Pivotal will make its money by helping businesses use the software and by selling specialized versions of the tools.
According to Madra, Pivotals big-data tools pulled in over $100 million in bookings from business in 2014. But he also says that businesses increasingly want to spend money on software that isnt controlled by a single vendor, and he says that Pivotal has already built successful businesses around open source tools such as Cloud Foundry. Open source, Madra says, is a trend growing bigger by the day.
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IBM, GE, Teradata, Infosys, VMware, Pivotal, SAS and others will develop on and test out Apache Hadoop open source tools
Major players in the big data space are joining forces to support open source software with the creation of industry association, Open Data Platform (ODP).
IBM, GE, Teradata, Infosys, VMware, Pivotal, SAS and others will develop on and test out Apache Hadoop open source tools to help enterprises build and implement data apps. The initiative will also encourage vendor interoperability and compatibility for enterprises working with complex big data software ecosystems.
ODP will adhere to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) guidelines for the contribution of ideas and code, and provide a test once, use everywhere platform of Apache Hadoop, Apache Ambari and related Apache source artifacts.
The open source movement is fundamentally changing the way that software is being developed in the industry today. Common frameworks and standards such as Open Data Platform will help solidify open source as a proven option for enterprises, Ben Fathi, chief technology officer of VMware, said in a statement.
Infosys is seeing rapid adoption of open source software in the worlds largest enterprises across all major industry segments, added Navin Budhiraja, head architecture and technology at Infosys.
As all businesses strive to become digital, they see an increasing need for a platform that can support real-time and actionable insights, self-service exploration, and fluid data schemas to quickly adapt to the dynamic business needs.
"This will require them to deploy new web-scale architectures, and the adoption of these modern architectures can be greatly accelerated if they are based on open standards, and easy access to trained talent.
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Pivotal announced today that it was moving three core pieces of its Big Data Suite to open source, while continuing to offer advanced features and support in a commercial version.
The three components moving to open sourceare GemFire, the platforms in-Memory NoSQL Database, the enterprise SQL on Hadoop component, HAWQ and the suites massively parallel processing (MPP) analytics database, Greenplum DB.
One of the reasons it felt comfortable movingin this direction with the Big Data Suite was its success with Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service offering that followed an identical model of open source and commercial versions.
We have had a lot of success with Cloud Foundry and weve been able to monetizeit, explained Sundeep Madra, VP and GM of the data product group at Pivotal. The company felt it could build on this success by taking the same tack with the Big Data Suite.
Pivotal was hearing from customers that they wanted the flexibility of open source software in other areas, which also helped pushed the company to make this move. One of the things weve realized is that open source is critical to enterprise buying patterns, Madra said. Pivotal has actually been seeing open source show up as anRFP requirement, and companies have expressed a need for freedom from vendor lock-in.
There is definitely a notion that if you are a customer using an enterprise distribution of open source, youre not locked into anything, Madra explained.
Whats more, customers using open source software dont have to wait for the company to get around to developing a requiredfeature. They can work with the company or a third party or build it themselves.Customers can take control of the project and solve it on their timeline, he explained.
Its worth pointing out that Pivotal is a joint venture of General Electric, EMC and VMware, but it operatesindependent of these organization. The idea was to create a company that could make its own way and use technology in ways that the parent companies might not have the agility orcreativity to do.
This type of move is precisely what theyhad in mind when they spun out Pivotal. Even thoughtools such as Greenplum DB were developed at great expense, Pivotal is showing it isnt afraid to try new approachessuch asmoving thesecomponents to open source.
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