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  • Former President Welcomes the New
    04/08/2010 - 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.

  • Rachel Hamilton-Williams Elected President
    29/07/2010 - 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.

  • AGM 2010
    27/07/2010 - 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:

  • healthAlliance Enterprise Content Management Solution
    27/07/2010 - 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"

  • Open Source Alternative to Mailman and Google Groups Released
    23/07/2010 - 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.

  • Minister Announces No Software Patents
    15/07/2010 - 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.

  • Internet New Zealand "Best Practice Awards"
    09/07/2010 - 21:57

    InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) and .auda (the Australian Domain Name Administrator) are pleased to announce that entries in the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Internet Best Practice Awards are now open.

    The Awards recognise New Zealand and Australian-based organisations, businesses, groups and individuals that have made significant contributions towards the security, openness, diversity and accessibility of the internet.

    The award categories are based on the four main themes of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The categories are:

  • Senior Firefox Developer Against Software Patents
    07/07/2010 - 21:16

    Rob O'Callahan, one of "Mozilla's senior software developers, and manager of our Auckland-based development team and also our worldwide layout engine team" writes about Software Patents. He is against them.

    If you don't think this statement is significant consider that fact that Mozilla has been just about the only organisation that has ever successfully broken a Microsoft monopoly. It did this through openness. The fact that Rob persuaded Mozilla to start a development team in Auckland is also pretty significant.

    Here is his blog post:

  • Auckland University Celebrating the best of open-source
    25/06/2010 - 11:28

    The New Zealand Herald reports on Auckland University offering a $10,000 prize for the individual who has made the greatest contribution to the field of open systems in the past two years.

  • Linux, but not as we know it
    25/06/2010 - 10:06

    Linux is not storming the Desktop, despite it reaching a level of maturity at least five years ago to be used by general purpose users. However, it is starting to have an impact in the mobile phone world in the form of Android.

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