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Mapping The Corporate Open Source World?
jukal asks: "I am building a contact database about open source activities and their contacts in large companies. It will be a kind of 'mindmap' positioning each of the big players, listing their key characteristics, their publically stated views on Open Source, and possible connections between the activities of the companies. Could you provide me with a helping hand to get started. Yes, I am doing this for the purposes of Openchallenge but I believe many others would benefit as well. I would like to map the open source world from the 'corporate viewing point' :) Post the details - or anything you got - here, or directly to me [/. profile] And as there will anyway be someone saying 'Go Google It Yourself' - If you think it's Google-able, give it a shot. If this has been already done, then that would be excellent!"
Do you think all these people will mind you putting their names and contact information into a huge database?
Name: Steve Ballmer
Position: CEO
Company:Microsoft
View on open source: cancer
Unfortionatly, slashdotters motivation and hunger for this "karma" substance doesnt seem to extend to doing any actual work.
Maybe if you tried the "dollar" substance, you might get better results.
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Don't forget the BSD guys at Apple. Hubbard springs immediately to mind, but I think there are others, as well.
How you would find them I dunno, really--hang out in newsgroups? Post ads?
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Assuming all of the information you're looking for is publically available, can you post a list of the fields needed for all the companies? Otherwise, nobody really knows where to start.
How many bodies can you hire to keep it up to date? :)
Name: Michael O'Connell (moc(a)us.ibm.com)
Position: Editor-in-chief of DeveloperWorks
Company: IBM
"Our mission is to help you be a better software programmer, a more productive (and perhaps more rested, less stressed) coder.
We hope to help you unleash the full power of hardware and operating systems, bridge multiple platforms, and be more successful through the use of open standards and cross-platform technologies such as Java, Linux, XML, and open source projects. developerWorks offers articles, sample code, tutorials, tools, news, discussion forums, emerging technologies -- virtually anything developers like you want and need to get your job done.
The developerWorks team is passionate about open standards and technologies. We tap into relevant expertise and perspective from both inside and outside IBM. We are developers, researchers, journalists, and business people critically seeking and leveraging the technical breadth and depth from the 100,000-person-strong technical community of IBM. (Note: IBM invests about $6 billion/year on research and is dedicated to helping customers integrate business systems through the use of open, cross-platform standards). We combine this collection of IBM talent and resources with a hand-picked assembly of independent industry-leading developers." -http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/aboutdw/
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from /. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Mapping+The+Corpo rate+Open+Source+World&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Go ogle+Search
I don't have the POC name at Cubic Systems, but you can try this email address for a query: oray612959@earthlink.net
XML causes global warming.
at the request of Microsoft or John Ashcroft? Aw shucks, does it matter?
I should have picked out the nickname Demosthenes!Tecumseh.
what the fuck are you talking about
SexyKellyOsborne Is A Troll (fuck you, i dont care if i spelled your name wrong whore)
Give me a break, anyone ever saw a negro inventor/scientist/engineer?
Outside of sociology departments, career services and track and field team they don't belong in college either.
Instead, if we take the for example the 500 biggest companies in the world - I would like to get a hunch on: what is their view on Open Source, what Open source related activities do they have going on (are they researching, do they have existing projects based on open source), what other companies are these activities linked to.
Or are you shilling for someone at the other end, about to be underfunded and hoping to get
a Redmond offer they can't refuse?
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
So what you're saying is, you want us to help you collect all this data and then not share it? I'm not saying you should share it, but if you're asking me to help you do something for your own personal interest, I'd like something out of it. ;-)
You may have some difficulty with the Fortune 500. As many of these companies are not tech industry companies, having a public stance on Open Source is irrelevant -- even if it's going on.
However, you could also check:
Instead of the Fortune 500, though, I might focus on the Fortunre e50. These are the biggest tech companies, and are more likely to be aware of, have an influence on, and be working with Open Source. Companies in other industries may have huge tech departments, but their core business isn't tech -- so Open Source is not necessarily something they think about, so they're less likely to have a specific view on Open Source. Tech companies generally will.
I can spell. I just can't type.
If you're willing to ask the people directly, you may have to sift through books listing contact information for investors. Pick your companies, and go to your library with a list, the librarian will point you to the books in the business section.
If you're asking about things said in articles, then you may want to get copyright issues squared away before you begin. Getting one hundred short quotes from Time might not be considered fair use.