KoreaCrunch

It was most favorite session to me. Sam Ramji of OSS Lab introduced activities of his lab and colleagues. You can see his dialog with attendees in detail. Firstly He said “In 1995, Microsoft was the company that missed the Internet. In 2005, I don’t think you could say that. It was the company that missed open-source. In 2015, I don’t think you’re going to be able to say that. That’s my vision and the timeline I’m working on.” I want to do that. Sam emphasized interoperablity between Windows Platform and various open source softwares. Most of customers have felt ...

The KLDP 10th Anniversary Free Open Source Conference was held on September, 17th in Seoul. Over 500 developers were crowded in conference hall. This year is the 10th anniversary of KLDP by having this conference, a festival to enjoy together with any FreeSoftware, OpenSource lovers. This event had eleven session by open source expert including Greg Stein, ASF chairman and Changshin Lee, Apache Axis committer and mentor of Google SoC. It's free event, but paticipators can donate to a Korean subsidiary of Plan to help suffering children in the world. Plan Korea will be at the registration desk with donation ...

The famous korean blogging tool, Tattertools decided to go to open source. Mr. Noh, Jungseok, CEO of Tatter&Company announced GPL Lincense of Tattertools ver. 1.0.3. Tattertools has many 3rd party contributor such as developing plugin and producing theme(skin). He commented the company doesn't have any plan to make a money for selling blog tool and wants to make a platform to brand themselves of each bloggers. This is very simlar with Wordpress.org and Automattic. In fact, this project was originated by one person and there have been many contributing users to develope it. Many korean developers are very glad to ...