| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ___ ___ \ \ _______ ____________\ \ \ \\ __ /_/ __ \ __ \ \_ http://www.legaltorrents.com \___\______\_____ \___/__\___\ \__________\ ___ ___ ___ \ \________ ___ _______________\ \_ \ \___ \ _\ __ \/ _\/ _\ __ /\ _ \ _\_\___ \ \___\______\__\ \__\ \______\__\\__\___\_______\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [RELEASE?] 'Go Open' Vol. 1 - Episodes 7 to 13 - 2004, 30 minutes per episode 'Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. Created for a mainstream audience, the show features a hyperkinetic presenter and interviews and showcases from both the South African and world open-source/free software scene. As the official Go Open website explains: "The program will showcase success stories, interviews with the top local and international pioneers, and the latest products and news from the open source world." The creators of 'Go Open' (http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/) have very kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license. This archive contains the final 7 episodes (from a total of 13) in a relatively compact MPEG-4 format. The series was sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Meraka Institute, HP, and Canonical. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [SPECIFIC INFO?] The series' official website (http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/) has the following official episode descriptions: -- [EPISODE 7] Lead Story: Voice over IP Internet Voice, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analogue) phone line. Some services using VoIP may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others may allow you to call anyone who has a telephone number - including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers. Also, while some services only work over your computer or a special VoIP phone, other services allow you to use a traditional phone through an adaptor. Big Gun: Eric S. Raymond But who is Eric S. Raymond – generally identified as ESR? “I wonder that myself, sometimes. I'm a long-time hacker, active in the Internet culture since the 1970s, who got unexpectedly famous in the late 1990s….. it took me twenty years to become an overnight sensation. I either founded or re-invented (depending on who you ask, and how some history is interpreted; I prefer ‘re-invented’, myself) the Open Source Movement. ….Today I'm one of the half-dozen or so most influential people in that movement; in fact, a lot of people would put me among the top three, with Linus Torvalds and Richard M. Stallman. The community has a tradition of tri-letterizing its heroes — I suppose that began with Stallman, already a hero when I was a fledgling programmer in the early 1980s, who was generally known as RMS even then….I think I started to be routinely triletterized into ‘ESR’ around 1998 on Slashdot; that was a few months after the fame thing started to kick in seriously. It's at best a mixed blessing. Fame is tactically useful, but the pressures and expectations that go with it can be nasty stuff. If you want to learn more about me, browsing through my essays would be a good place to start.” Doing it:Gaim GAIM is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Open Source Means Business: Solly Masinga In a remarkably short period of time, he went from temporary employment as a packer, to mastery of Open Source and full-time responsibility for testing, support systems and customisation of the locally-developed 441 system, at the HP I-Community Centre in Limpopo. That’s the “rags-to-riches” story of the unstoppable Solly Masinga. Younus Hassan is a Technical Support Engineer. Moshe Masifo is a Systems Administrator. Refiloe Seseane visited the I-Community Centre to meet Solly, and hear what his mentors had to say. What is hot: Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. -- [EPISODE 8] Lead Story: Google Google is a play on the word ‘googol’, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. The fanciful term refers to the number 10 raised to the hundredth power. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web. Big Gun: Larry Lessig Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Centre for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Doing it:Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It’s available for Unix or Linux running the Gnome Desktop. Like iTunes, you can use it to browse, search and sort the music on your computer. It supports just about any music format, be it MP3, or Ogg Vorbis. Convert your CD’s to one of these formats, and set up your own playlists. You can even use it to tune into Internet radio stations. Open Source Means Business: e-Commerce e-commerce, or electronic commerce, is defined as the conduct of financial transactions by electronic means. With the growth of commerce on the Internet and the Web, e-commerce often refers to purchases from on-line stores on the Web, otherwise knows as e-commerce websites. They may also be referred to as "virtual-stores" or “cyber stores”. Since the transaction goes through the Internet and the Web, some have suggested another term: i-commerce (Internet commerce). e-commerce can be business-to-business (B 2 B) or business-to-consumer (B 2C). What is hot: Turbocash Turbocash is a well-known and established accounting software, developed internationally and locally over the last 16 years. The good news is that it has been released as Open Source, and the Full Version is available as a free download. Although mainly used by small and medium-sized businesses, it can be scaled up to suit a large organization. -- [EPISODE 9] Lead Story: NASA's Mars Expoloration Rover On 10th June, 2003, the first Mars Exploration Rover (MER-A) Spirit, was launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The MER-B Rover, Opportunity, followed on the 7th of July, 2003. Spirit landed on Mars on the 3rd of January, 2004, and Opportunity, on the 25th of that month. Big Gun: Bob Young Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the premier Linux and Open Source provider. It’s the most recognized Linux brand in the world, serving global enterprises through technology and services made possible by the Open Source model. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platforms, sold through a subscription model, and a broad range of services: consulting, 24/7 support, and the Red Hat Network. Red Hat's global training programme operates in more than 60 locations worldwide and features RHCE, the global standard Linux certification. Doing it:Audacity Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects. Open Source Means Business: Hartbeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is the only major radio astronomy observatory in Africa. It’s located in a valley in the Magaliesberg hills, 50 km west of Johannesburg. It operates as a National Research Facility under the auspices of the National Research Foundation (NRF). What is hot: Xplanet ImageXplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, similar to the Solar System Simulator. A number of different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, and rectangular. -- [EPISODE 10] Lead Story: Computer Security It’s about vulnerability... Your home computer is a popular target for intruders: they want what you’ve stored there. They look for credit card numbers, bank account information, and anything else they can find. By stealing that information, intruders can use your money to buy goods and services for themselves. But it’s not just money-related information they’re after: they also want your computer’s resources, meaning your hard disc space, your fast processor, and your Internet connection. They use them to attack other computers on the Internet. In fact, the more computers an intruder uses, the harder it is for law enforcement to figure out where the attack is really coming from. If intruders can’t be found, they can’t be stopped, and they can’t be prosecuted. Big Gun: Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier is an internationally-renowned Security Technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. His first bestseller, “Applied Cryptography” explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as “the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published.” His book on computer and network security, “Secrets and Lies”, was called by Fortune a “jewel box of little surprises you can actually use.” His current book, “Beyond Fear” tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security. Doing it:Thunderbird Mozilla’s Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever, with the industry's best implementations of features - such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. It offers the most effective tools for detecting junk mail – analyzing the e-mail and identifying those most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you suddenly develop an interest in reading junk mail! Open Source Means Business: Embedded Systems Essentially, an embedded system is a small, customised operating system for single-use systems. It’s the computer we almost certainly use everyday, without necessarily being aware of it – the wrist-watch, the cell-phone, the CD player, the digital camera. All of these devices (and a host of others) have computers embedded in them. And Open Source makes it easier…. Marc Chase spoke to some local practitioners in the business of embedded systems – Abraham van der Merwe of Frogfoot: Adriaan Graaff , I.T. Director at Namitech; and Demetrios Savvides of Powerband. What is hot: HP i-centre In September 2002, Johannesburg played host to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development - a high-profile forum that brought together experts from around the world to debate practical solutions to the problems faced by emerging economies. At the Summit South African President, Thabo Mbeki, joined HP CEO Carly Fiorina to launch the Mogalakwena HP i-community - an innovative three-year partnership between HP, the Limpopo Province and the Mogalakwena Municipality. Fiorina addressed community stakeholders, government officials and business leaders and reaffirmed HP's commitment to the project. President Mbeki stressed the strength of commitment from the country's highest office, promising to "insert myself into this process, to go there myself and see." The Mogalakwena HP i-community's primary intention is to find breakthroughs in the ways that information and communication technology (ICT) can enable sustainable social, economic and environmental development. As a result, its mandate is to provide the Mogalakwena community with ICT access and training - as well as sustainable livelihoods solutions - and thereby stimulate education and employment opportunities. -- [EPISODE 11] Lead Story: Open Source in Education The eighth IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2005, is to be held at the University of Stellenbosch from 4th to 7th July this year. It will explore the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education and the Teaching of Informatics, provide an opportunity for participants to review progress since WCCE 2001, report on successful (and unsuccessful) ICT projects in Education, and predict trends for the future. Big Gun: Richard Stallman Richard M. Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free software operating system GNU. The name ``GNU'' is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today. Doing it:Getting Help Mark: So what do you do when things go wrong? Open Source isn’t produced by a company, so it’s not immediately obvious where you would go to get technical support. And what we’re going to show you today is how the Open Source community – which is the thousands and thousands of people who write Open Source software – participate in helping the people who write Open Source Software. Open Source Means Business: Pipeline Performance Technologies (Thin Client) The "Thin Client" method of computer networking is a well-established technology by which old, used or donated computers are used simply as a terminal to access the full computing power of a new and powerful server in the back room as though it were that server. The Thin Client network ensures that each terminal, regardless of its own computing characteristics, delivers the speed and capability of the server, so each user experiences top quality, smooth, fast computing. It’s a cost-effective solution – made even more affordable because Linux is involved. What is hot: Noodle Linux Noodle Linux – hot off the stove: a new Linux distro with a funky sense of humour. Marc Chase got the inside story from two of its developers – Ross Addiz and Bongani Hlope, of MIP Holdings. -- [EPISODE 12] Lead Story: China's 'Red flag' goes open Last year, a number of Chinese software companies joined forces with overseas vendors such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp, and Novell Inc. to form the China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, China's first Open Source software organization. The objectives of the alliance include co-operative Linux development, promotion of Open Source development and application in China, driving exchanges and co-operation among Open Source communities in northeast Asia, and making contributions to the international Open Source community. Big Gun: Alan Cox Welshman Alan Cox is a renowned Linux guru, now working full-time at Red Hat. Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the premier Linux and Open Source provider. It serves global enterprises through technology and services made possible by the Open Source model. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platforms, sold through a subscription model, and a broad range of services: consulting, 24x7 support, Red Hat Network. Red Hat's global training program operates in more than 60 locations worldwide and features RHCE, the global standard Linux certification. Doing it:Installing Linux Ubuntu Linux is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to. Open Source Means Business: Translate.org Translate.org.za is a non-profit organisation producing Free and Open Source software that enables and empowers South Africans. The Translate Project started in 2001 with the vision of providing Free Software translated into the 11 official languages of South Africa. Free Software in your language is true empowerment. The project is run by committed volunteers, and sponsored by the Department of Communications, The Shuttleworth Foundation, Obsidian Systems, St James Software and Hewlett-Packard (South Africa). What is hot: GNU Backgammon Want to be a player on the Internet? A player of Backgammon, that is. Software Engineer Matthew Ryder, and on-line player , Dr Peter Wisniewski, a GP, extol the benefits of the digital version of this ancient and highly-popular game. -- [EPISODE 13] Lead Story: Making money from Open source The most outstanding local example of making money from Open Source Software is undoubtedly the “Mark Shuttleworth Story”, a garage-to-riches tale of hard work, Open Source and business acumen, resulting in the creation of South Africa’s best-known IT multi-millionaire, and Africa’s first astronaut! Another local example of the commercial potential of Open Source is Afribiz, a company that provides network specific services including mail servers, firewalls, print servers, fax servers, file servers, web servers and a host of other server and network related services to businesses. The company’s strategy includes cost-effective, stable and low maintenance products. Open Source Means Business: Starfish A local technology company, Starfish Mobile Technologies, focuses its energies on cell-phones, creating innovative SMS campaigns in the field of Permission Marketing. And they’ve done it with the indispensable help of Open Source. Marc Chase spoke to Starfish’s Marketing Director, Wayne Nelson-Esch, and David Zarraga, of Xurpass, and Head of Operations, Starfish Mobile. Big Gun: Robert Young Bob Young is a Co-founder and former Chairman of Red Hat (1993-2000). He describes himself as a ‘Serial entrepreneur’. He’s a graduate of the University of Toronto (1976), and Founder of The Centre for the Public Domain (1999), a non-profit foundation that supports the growth of a healthy and robust public domain of knowledge and the arts. Bob is also CEO and founder of Lulu.com, home of ‘Bob Young’s Store’ and Lulu Enterprises, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lulu.com is a site that allows content creators and owners to bring work directly to market without surrendering control of their intellectual property. What is hot: Open Source outside the computer Refiloe Seseane: I wonder if you realize that Open Source software or Open Source is not just limited to the world of computing. The concept has always existed. The Open Source way of thinking comes from situations where it’s better for everyone to spread their knowledge and to allow for progress. But it also touches our lives daily, and sometimes we take it for granted. Like when you attempt a gourmet meal from a recipe. Recipes are often given out freely. Some restaurants even publish their recipes to make their brands more accessible. 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