NZOSS Business Group

The NZOSS Business Group mission is to provide resources and assist local New Zealand businesses to harness the power of Open Source software.

New Zealand Open Source suppliers and support businesses

Open Systems Specialists
Open Systems Specialists staff are highly experienced and are respected as some of New Zealand's foremost experts in their fields, which include Unix, Linux (Redhat, Suse) and open source software; Oracle / RAC and other databases, virtualisation, networking, security, clustering and high availability, LDAP and Identity Management, Exchange replacement messaging systems, and PHP, Perl, Java and J2EE development and middleware.

Linux is Yoghurt?

carl

This little gem comes from the Sunday Times in the UK. The story is titled 'Why not break free?' and the yoghurt comment comes from one Nicholas McGrath who is listed as Microsofts Director of Platform Strategy. We've clearly moved on from being carcinogenic and un-american...

The story itself is reasonably accurate and worth a read. The couple of errors I noticed may very well be due to an over-zealous sub-editor getting their hooks into it.

Events of Note

A roundup of Seminars and Meetings that may be of interest.

NZOSS Committee Meetings
NZOSS Committee meetings are held via IRC on the third Monday of the month. The server is chat.freenode.net and channel is #nzoss. Meetings start around 1pm.

Local Linux User Groups

There are a number of local Linux User Groups around the country. Most hold regular monthly meetings covering a variety of topics. Details of these meetings may be found on the linux.net.nz site here.

Linux.Conf.AU 2010

NZOSS Education Group

The goal of the Education Group is to assist in the adoption of open source software in New Zealand's educational institutions.

Global Resources

Some of the resources available around the world today are:

edubuntu
"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment.