DrupalCamp Derry – October 22nd & 23rd 2011
Posted by Robert Bushnell on 13 October, 2011 in Event | Ireland | Open source | Training | UK - (1 Comments)

This is a guest post from Conor Cahill who uses Drupal to make people friendly and search engine friendly websites.

What do the White House, Oxfam International and Bob Dylan have in common?

All have noteworthy websites built with Drupal – an open source content management platform which powers millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

DrupalCamp Derry is geared to both beginners and those experienced in using and developing Drupal – with a view to learning about and sharing knowledge of Drupal.

Experienced developers will enjoy lightning talks on topics including responsive design and development best practice, as well as practical problem solving discussions. Beginners will enjoy a 3 hour training session in getting started with Drupal.

The conference is free.

Register your place at DrupalCamp Derry at www.drupalcampireland.org.

 

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Meet Key European System Integrators at the Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit, Dublin
Posted by Paul Browne on 12 May, 2011 in Conference | Dublin | Event | Links | Open source - (Be the first to comment)

We’re working with three key multinationals as part of Enterprise Ireland ‘Best Connected’ software strategy around their main partner events.  More details on the just announced Red Hat day for EI clients at the European Partner Summit (Dublin Convention Centre) is below, quick links to register for any of the three events are;

Enterprise Ireland Best Connected Day at the Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit, 2011.

For the First time, the Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit is coming to Dublin. This annual get together of the European Red Hat ecosystem attracts Global and Regional System Integrators, Solution Providers, Distributors, Resellers, Hardware Manufacturers, Training Companies and Software Vendors from across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and beyond.At the conference, they will join with the Red Hat Corporate Leadership team, including CEO, EVP Products & Technology, CTO as well as the product owners, who define the Red Hat direction, strategy and solutions in the areas of Cloud, Virtualization, Enterprise Middleware, Enterprise Linux and more.

Enterprise Ireland, through its BestConnected Software Strategy has arranged with Red Hat to provide EI Clients with special access on Tuesday 7th June for EUR 145. This is the first time Red Hat has allowed organisations outside the formal Red Hat partner network to attend and is a recognition of the high-caliber of indigenous Irish software companies.

Access to the partner summit is at a much reduced fee, with the focus on 1 day only of the summit. It includes a chance to meet other conference delegates, attend the technical streams and network with the full EMEA-wide channel ecosystem.

The Agenda Tuesday 7th June is here. One session available to EI clients only is the special opening keynote by Red Hat and Enterprise Ireland. After this attendees will have access to the full agenda of sessions.

Update: Paul Cormier (President of Products & Technology) will now be delivering a keynote to EI Clients on the day.

If you are interested, please complete the following registration form (Registration code ConDay11) and submit with “Finish your registration”. An automatically generated registration confirmation with your invoice enclosed will be sent to you afterwards. If you have further questions or any troubles with the registration process please contact support@partner-summit-2011.com.

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OpenJam – Connecting the Irish Open Source Community
Posted by Laura Czajkowski on 6 April, 2010 in Event | Uncategorized - (6 Comments)

This is a guest blog post from Laura Czajkowski. Laura is a Software Tester working with Quest Computing, and is one of the most prominent and well-respected members of the Irish Open Source Software community.

Saturday 27th March marked the inaugural OpenJam event that took place at Enterprise Ireland head office. The idea behind the event was to have as many user groups come along on the day and work collaboratively on their projects. It was also beneficial to see what other groups were doing and a great chance to ask questions and learn about how you could get involved in the work.

With over 30 people attending the event, and members from user groups such as Ubuntu Ireland, Python, PHP, Open Street Maps, ALT.net, Ruby, UCD Open Source Lab and many more, it was great to see and meet all these people who are active here in Ireland.

Photo of attendees at the inaugural OpenJam event.

The morning was filled with attendees working on their projects while others broke off into groups and participated in small talks which gave an overview and insight into their area. Others set aside time to work on their area and show how to get people involved, proving you didn’t need to be an elitist developer to take part.

The day was relaxing and great conversations and contacts were made, lunch arrived which was kindly sponsored by Microsoft Ireland. Food for thought and plans made for after lunch activities where we had lightning talks on different projects that were participating at the event. Many took interest in them and made follow up enquiries which is beneficial to all those who were involved.

I hope to organise many more of these events during the year as it was a great success.

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A guide to open source software
Posted by Eoin O'Siochru on 15 September, 2009 in eMarketing - (Be the first to comment)

Worldwide revenue from open source software was USD2.9 billion in 2008, and even with Western economies in the midst of recession, IDC expects that figure to grow by 34 percent this year. A compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent will take the figure to USD8.1 billion by 2013, according to IDC’s July report.

Meanwhile, the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite has captured nearly 13 percent of the Windows PC market, according to real-world PC usage data from the Exo.performance.network published in September. In contrast, 35 percent of Windows PCs now run some variant of Microsoft’s Office 2007. (more…)

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