Featured Rookies Webinars

Code Well and Prosper with OSS Foundations

How Apache and Eclipse Help Developers Succeed!

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Maybe you’ve toyed with the idea of getting involved with open source foundations, but still aren’t clear on their value. Foundations offer a variety of services that can help your open source project succeed faster and encourage the use of your project.

Eclipse Orion and Apache Rave have found significant advantages in working with foundations, helping lead them to recognition in Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year program. Join foundation leaders from Apache and Eclipse as they discuss their perspective on:

• Project incubation and the unique services that foundations can provide to help you be more successful including development processes and frameworks for limiting legal exposure for committers.
• The other benefits of becoming involved with foundations, what types of projects are best suited and how to get started.

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Learn from the Open Source Rookies of 2010

If you're a developer using open source code to speed time to solution, you know the benefits of working with FOSS. Perhaps you've contributed code back to a project, joined a FOSS community, or are thinking about starting your own project. Turn those ideas into actions by listening to FOSS developers who've made the leap into the limelight as Black Duck 2010 Open Source Rookies of the Year.

Join us for a webinar discussion lead by FOSS developers from the Diaspora, Activiti, VoltDB and RapidFTR projects. This diverse group of projects spans a personally-controlled social network, a powerful No-SQL database and a mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations. The Rookies discuss:

• FOSS trends
• How they initiated their projects and successes and challenges
• Provide advice for those of you planning or in the midst of your own open source projects

Ranging from "home-grown" to corporate-sponsored, humanitarian to BPM, the Rookies from Diaspora, Activiti, VoltDB and RapidFTR share their stories - and inspire you to create your own FOSS narrative.

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Cloud and FOSS: How to Unleash Developer Productivity

"Millenial" companies (e.g., Facebook, Twitter and Zynga) are developing IT-scale and capacity at unprecedented rates, and doing it with historically low levels of investment ($ per user). Cloud and FOSS are two of the key technology enablers. In this webinar you’ll hear from two of the 2010 Open Source Rookies of the Year. Cloud9 IDE CTO Rik Arends and Rackspace Cloud founder and chair of the OpenStack Project Oversight Committee Jonathan Bryce will discuss how to leverage these trends to unleash developer productivity.

You’ll learn about why Jonathan Bryce from OpenStack believes that an open development model is essential for developer productivity and will foster badly-needed cloud standards, while creating a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers. And Cloud9 IDE’s Rik Arends will discuss the promise of online development environments that let developers create applications.

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