This time great ideas come together at a single place. You have 12hrs to develop anything, either with a team or individually. Share your ideas with others, form great teams and meet different people. You are free to develop anything, any idea that you have in mind – Android, iPhone, Web2.0, linux etc.

Have a blast with coding, designing and developing a business idea, straight from idea >> execution. Start your idea with awesome people around and <geek> out.

The last 2 hrs will be devoted to a short discussion of ideas that everybody is working on.

So Come over, grab a corner and JFDI!

The event starts at 9am and ends at 9pm.

9am – 11am Form team, discuss idea.

11am – 8pm – JFDI!

8pm – 9pm – Show-and-Tell & Makan

Please register here. Please note that places are limited for the first 30 registrants. You will be informed by email

http://bit.ly/9FNeyq

Please feel free to drop by the IRC Channel or email us at contact@linuxnus.org

My favorite sections in the NUS Central Library is the TK5I05.885 and QA76.76 – all catering to the latest and old books on various Computer technologies. Last semester, I had to write an essay for the USP application on a topic that talks about my interest. And guess what, I wrote about  Open Source. I had to keep it non-technical as mainly Arts Professors would evaluate that. (Disclaimer : I did not get through USP ).

So I looked up some books regarding the topics, and for that I had to look up in the above shelves of QA76.76. And there, sitting on the old shelves were the immense bundles of knowledge talking about the various aspects of Free and Open Source Software. I will be providing a list of books and locations at the end of this post so that any geek, passing the library can have a look at the areas.

Though, almost all these books are available freely over the Internet under the GNU license, getting some to read in the comfort of your bed is a boon in itself. And why not use the vast library that is full of smelly books, untouched for years, waiting for geeks?

I try to make it up to a habit that I have always craved for and sometimes achieved – “a book a week”. But a busy semester and less sleeping time pulls the habit down.

The most important aspect of FOSS that has inspired me is the point that reeks out from all the books that talk about history of Open Source – The way the eminent personalities coded day and night with huge motivations. I mainly refer to the “Rebel Code” by Glyn Moody. He gives a comprehensive insight into how the Hacker movement transformed into a highly organised rebellion – giving birth to GNU and Linux, as we know them today.

I think its better to read the books altogether, rather me giving brief reviews about each (I am still reading some of them, if you cant find them on the Book shelves, ping me, I will return those books back to the library).

You can get a simple list of all the books with the Keyword – “Open Source” at LincNUS -

http://linc.nus.edu.sg/search/Y?SEARCH=open+source&searchscope=16&SORT=D&submit=Submit

Other Books, pertaining to FOSS, I will list :  There are even more in the above link, and more that I am looking out for. Will update the list soon.

P.S. There are perhaps thousands of books that cater to the technical aspect of Open Source technologies such as PHP, Apache, Ruby etc. I talk only about the non-technical ones here.

The following is a message from their FB group:

Dear developers,

We have set up our IRC channel at #CodeAndroid on irc.freenode.net where developers can discuss and help each other out in development. Please do join us in our discussion. We will also be offering support for the upcoming ITSC’s CodeXtreme competition in June/July through livechat on the channel, so if you are a participant do stay tuned. Thank you.

Cheers From CodeAndroid Team

If you do not have an IRC client, you can log in at http://www.codeandroid.org/chat-on-codeandroid/

IRC Settings: Channel: #CodeAndroid Server: irc.freenode.net Port: 6667

The winners have just been announced , and here they are:

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p style=”text-align: center;”> Armitay Tweeto’s winning entry, "What does it mean to be free?"

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p style=”text-align: center;”> The Origin… from Agustin Eguia on Vimeo .

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p style=”text-align: center;”> Third placed "Linux Pub", by sebmasse

For more "I’m Linux" fun, check out the videos on the Linux Foundation site, or on YouTube .

[Thanks Nixxy, for posting the news about this on the mailing list !]

Not possible, you say? Well, just ask the folks at the NUS Office of Estate and Development then.

NUS’ parking permit management facilities were once run off a *Microsoft *Windows NT-based application. Unfortunately, as this system was not fully integrated into the University’s backend database, a lot of the processing of parking permit applications still had to be done manually. However, to enable automation and integration in the existing application would have been "prohibitively expensive, with additional user licence fees adding significant costs to the department".

Eventually, a new parking system was developed that ran off  *SUSE Linux Enterprise Server virtualised on top of *VMWare Server . Virtualisation was used in order to run separate application environments on the same physical server, thus enabling further cost saving. Said Toh Yong Soon, of the Office of Estate and Development, "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides NUS with a highly reliable and scalable environment capable of managing the very high demands placed on it. … Deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server virtualised on VMWare Server has saved NUS some SGD100,000 in fees that would otherwise have been required for proprietary operating systems and user licences."

[Download the PDF version of the report. ]

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This post was written as a purely journalistic article and was in no way sponsored by any vendor.

Presenting to you, fresh (somewhat) from the oven, Episode 0 of the linuxNUS Podcast, Closed on Sundays !

Inside, catch up with the linuxNUS Team as we come together to create our very first-ever podcast. In it, we take a light-hearted look at the open source scene in Singapore, and our journey through it. Naturally, we welcome everyone out there along for the ride, and, of course , we’d love to hear what you have to say about us, and what we’re doing.

This being Episode 0, we have to say it’s still somewhat raw, but hey, it’s a good effort! Oh, and it’s about a week late too, so don’t be too worried about us referencing things in the show that have already passed. We ran into some.. um.. production issues . Yeah. That’s it. Enjoy. Also, don’t forget to check out the shownotes embedded within the MP3 itself.

We hope you enjoy the podcast! Oh, and did we mention feedback is always welcome?

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Credit for the drum loop used in this podcast goes to Bill Ray on ccMixter . The track used was No Better Time . The linuxNUS Podcast it licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike

If you wish to to find out more about Android development, check out the slides by ziyong, which were presented during Barcamp 3 Singapore.

PS. Ziyong can be found in our linuxNUS channel, #linuxnus @ irc.freenode.net. Drop by today! Also do check out CodeAndroid.org.

Junhao, aka Jmarki

Do check it out and let us know if you have any feedback!

Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the leading Linux kernel hackers has announced on his blog that his employer, Novell, has moved him to work full-time on a project he announced back in January this year to help device manufacturers write free Linux drivers for their devices, so long as they provided the device specifications.

As Kroah-Hartman noted, after putting up his offer,

It turns out that there were two large groups of people who responded to the announcement, companies wanting drivers, and developers wanting to help out.

He was unable to cope with the workload, trying to juggle a full-time job and hacking the kernel on the side.

However, Novell recently modified his postion at work to allow Kroah-Hartman to work full time on the project, which will hopefully lead to more drivers being developed for Linux. Kroah-Hartman is the kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, I²C, driver core and the sysfs kernel subsystems, according to his Wikipedia entry.

For more information, check out the official kick-off announcement and the Linux Driver Project Wiki.

We say, “Well Done, Novell!”, and all the best Greg!

(original article from Wired)