OSS Jam Reloaded in Zurich
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17. febrero 2008
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After the success of the first OSS jam, Google invites people to a second round in its
new Zurich office on February 28th, 2008. Once again, participants are
invited to present their projects in a short 5-minute time frame,
trying to find future project contributers.
This time, a topic has been set for submissions: «The desktop in the
past, present and future». People who are seeking for participation
in their desktop projects are invited to present them at the jam.
OSS Jam and Google
The question is of course how this fits into Google's search engine
business. To this question, there are two different, unrelated
answers.
Firstly, Google has extended its scope beyond search engines quite some
time ago. Like Yahoo delivered widgets for web applications, Google also
delivered the Google Widget Toolkit for Java web applications and similar
products, and is expanding its scope to Open Source and the community.
Secondly, Google's OSS Jam provides the Open Source community with ways
to find new participants for their projects, and as such, there
is a philosophical relation to the search business.
Either way, it is going to be interesting to watch the future development
of this tradition.
For more information please visit Google's Open Source Jam information site.
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