OpenSourcery

Randall Hansen, OpenSourcery's Director of Engineering, will be speaking at Open Source Bridge, Portland's home grown conference on open source technology.

Randall will be talking about Practical Paper Prototyping, something he does weekly
with our clients. Paper prototyping is the simplest possible way to start sanity checking web page and web application ideas. It allows clients, designers and developers to get on the same page by promoting communication and collaboration early in the process.

Randall's been doing user interface design since the mid-eighties, and building websites since 1996. If you have an interest in design and user experience, you'll want to attend this session.

Thursday, June 18th, 2:45 to 3:30 at the Oregon Convention Center. Register at the Open Source Bridge site.

The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The annual prize, now in its third year, honors a software developer whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit sector and to ongoing efforts for positive social change.

Read more here:

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=243100023

NASA is now using open source bug tracking package Bugzilla with the space shuttle.

You'll frequently hear us discussing how the open source approaches we use here at OpenSourcery are not just cheaper, but better.  But don't take our word for it, here's what NASA has to say:

"Vera wouldn't say exactly how much the new systems cost to build, but he said they were an order of magnitude cheaper than what was being used before, closer to $100,000 than the $1 million it would have cost in the past. More to the point, Vera explained, by using open-source Bugzilla tools, technicians will be able to make changes to either PRACA or IFI more or less on the fly, rather than having to submit any proposed changes to the publishers of proprietary software, steps that often took weeks to achieve."

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