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  • Ingres Corporation

    Ingres is the leading open source database management company, combining proven reliability with the value and flexibility of open source. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, we are the world’s second largest open source company and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT.

    With more than 10,00 customers worldwide, Ingres offers open source solutions at lower costs than proprietary software vendors.

    For more information visit www.ingres.com

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  • Kete
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    http://www.kete.net.nz

    Kete - the Māori word for 'basket' - provides a platform for developing community contributed content. The kete or basket is the overall organising structure for content. Beyond baskets content is organised by the community using tagging and relating pieces of content to each other. Kete is a Ruby on Rails application originally commissioned by the Horowhenua Library Trust and built by Katipo Communications.

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The New Zealand Open Source Society is a non-profit organisation set up to educate, advocate and advance the use of Open Source Software in New Zealand.

Free and Open Source Strategy for Wellington

Submitted by donchristie on May 12, 2010 - 14:42.

Jack Yan has approached the NZOSS asking if we can put our collective heads together and come up with the a FOSS friendly strategy for Wellington. Jack is one of the candidates running in this year's Wellington Mayoral elections (see http://www.jackyanformayor.org/).

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Software Patents and ITANZ

Submitted by donchristie on August 31, 2010 - 10:35.

It is easy to think that the software patents issue is this year's news. But it is worth reflecting on the fact that, in New Zealand as elsewhere, practically the entire IT industry has been campaigning against software patents for years. What was highly unusual *this* year was an New Zealand IT vendor organisation, NZICT, coming out in favour of software patents.

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New Zealand Open Source Awards judges announced

Submitted by donchristie on August 18, 2010 - 09:16.

Seven open source experts, chosen for their eminence in or championship of open source technology, will form the judging panel of the 2010 Open Source Awards, which will be announced at a gala ceremony in Wellington on Tuesday 9th November.

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AJ Park Misrepresenting New Zealand

Submitted by donchristie on August 10, 2010 - 18:51.

This recent article by AJ Park is a gross misrepresentation of the New Zealand Commerce Select Committee's position and the publicly stated Government position.

http://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Detail.aspx?g=555f15a9-c09c-4cd6-a20f-f4ea66b0fcf5

It states:

"The news that the government intends computer program inventions to be patentable in the same way as in Europe is important to New Zealand industry, not just for multinational companies.

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Former President Welcomes the New

Submitted by Feynmanfan on August 4, 2010 - 22:20.

by Peter Harrison

I wish to Congratulate Rachel in becoming President. We are honoured to have a new President that has the proven track record of success in the open source field that you do. In order for the NZOSS to be strong we need capable people with real passion for free and open source software. We are therefore very luck to have Rachel at the helm to take the solemn responsibility of piloting the society into the future.

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Rachel Hamilton-Williams Elected President

Submitted by Feynmanfan on July 29, 2010 - 12:37.

Rachel Hamilton-Williams has been elected President of the New Zealand Open Source Society in yesterday's Annual General Meeting. After gaining a degree in Sociology from Massey University Rachel started her own business, Wellington based Katipo Communications in 1996. Katipo has created many open source software solutions, including the award winning Koha Library Management Software. Joining Rachel on Council will be three new councillors, Brenda Wallace, Scott Newton and Peter Fletcher.

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AGM 2010

Submitted by carl on July 27, 2010 - 22:27.

The 2010 AGM of the New Zealand Open Source Society has been held. Thanks to all those who took the time to attend.

Wednesday the 28th of July starting at 5pm.

The meeting will be conducted via an IRC channel for minutes and logging purposes. There will also be a conference line open.

The IRC channel is:

irc://chat.freenode.net #nzoss

Instructions to access the conference call are:

- Conference Dial-in Number: +1 (661) 673-8600
- Participant Access Code: 1051251#

Note that this is an International Toll call and normal toll charges will apply.

The Final Agenda is:

  • Apologies
  • Presidents Report
  • Financial Report and Statement of Accounts
  • Acceptance of Minutes of 2009 AGM
  • Election of Officers and Council
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healthAlliance Enterprise Content Management Solution

Submitted by donchristie on July 27, 2010 - 10:52.

The healthAlliance, which runs ICT for several northern DHBs has put out an expression of interest for an Enterprise Content Management Solution.

The relevent documentation can be found on GETS:

https://www.gets.govt.nz/Default.aspx?show=TenderDetail&TenderID=30383

In the tender documents there is the following statement:

"We are open to solutions from open source vendors, proprietary solution vendors and hosted solution providers"

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Open Source Alternative to Mailman and Google Groups Released

Submitted by donchristie on July 23, 2010 - 15:13.

OnlineGroups.Net has just released the latest version of GroupServer, an open source web-based mailing list manager. Via email, GroupServer works like traditional mailing list managers but it also has a web forum interface for reading and making posts, and list administration.

GroupServer provides the kind of web interface that users of Google Groups enjoy. Being open source, it also provides the administrative freedom that mailing list administrators expect.

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Minister Announces No Software Patents

Submitted by Feynmanfan on July 15, 2010 - 14:30.

Minister of Commerce Simon Power today announced that further amendment to the Patent Bill is neither necessary nor desirable, and that the insertion of an exception for software would prevail. He has also asked IPONZ to formulate draft guidelines and seek the views of interested parties regarding patents involving embedded software.

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