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The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit organization driven by industry, academia, and community. It provides conferences, webcasts, online videos, and workshops teaching skills with open source software. FOSSLC is a neutral and friendly place to learn about open source development, the business of open source, and meet people from the open source community. Read more about FOSSLC

On top of the blogs, FAQs, stories, and related links you find here we also have roughly 300 hours of Videos available that have been viewed over 50,000 times. As well, please see our listing of upcoming Events.

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Which open source license is best? See the verdict

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Step by step: configuring asterisk to enable call recording

Submitted by aross on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 21:13

This is the third in our series on Asterisk. This article will cover enabling asterisk to record calls. You may want this to interview people over the phone, podcast, or some other purpose. Read on.

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Flash and Twitter are open, aren't they?

Submitted by aross on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 08:59

In the past, we've been given feedback that as an organization supporting open source and open standards we should not use certain technologies. Adobe flash, and Adobe Air have been two notable examples of this. For some, this issue is black or white... if you want to reach people on the web, flash is a big part of doing so. Conversely, those advocating open standards note the risks and damage caused by using technologies encumbered by patents and royalties and thus push strongly for free alternatives. It is thus interesting to see what Adobe has to say on the matter. Read on.

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Where should we host freeseer code?

Submitted by aross on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:45
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JGrass, present and future

JGrass, present and future by Andrea Antonello, Silvia Franceschi

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OSGeo
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Andrea Antonello
Silvia Franceschi
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open source database ten times faster than closed source rivals

Submitted by aross on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 09:43

This story is very interesting given it's significance from both an open and closed source perspective given the high performance and disruptive potential involved.

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Ottawa Open Source Business Breakfast - February 10, 2010

This event is the monthly open source business breakfast for the Ottawa area. The intention is to bring industry, government, academia, and community together once a month for an enjoyable breakfast of networking, good food, and a couple of short presentations. This event runs Monthly.

Event Date: 
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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YOW
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CANADA

freeseer - open source video studio in a backpack

This project contains code for a video capture utility capable of capturing presentations. It captures vga output and audio and mixes them together to produce a video thus enabling you to capture great presentations, demos, or training material easily.

This software has been used to record great open source events including hundreds of talks at great conferences like OSGeo's FOSS4G, FSOSS, and more.

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Maps and geospatial technology on mobile phones

Challenges and opportunities related to serving GIS via Mobile phones: Review from a developing Nation's perspective by Nimialika Fernado

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OSGeo
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Nimialika Fernado
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2009 annual report

Submitted by aross on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:35

I meant to post this earlier but was hit with a nasty cold bug that clobbered me - the good news was my hair wasn't infected. The bad news was nearly everything else was.

This is a brief retrospective of what FOSSLC did in 2009, and a look forward to 2010.

Our original goals for 2009 were:

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