| From Facebook to the New York Stock Exchange, the Linux foundation successfully hosted the ultimate Open Source collaboration summit |
After receiving a briefing from MITA and MARSEC-XL, I hopped over to London followed by a long-haul flight to the west coast, finally arriving in Silicon Valley a day later.
Today, in downtown San Francisco the 6th Linux collaboration summit got off to a great start with an exceptional key note from Jim Zemlin the Executive Director of the Linux foundation. He showcased how Linux and its kernel is dominating all domains, ranging from desktops to enterprise servers, with 850,000 android phones being registered on a daily basis in comparison to the 30,000 windows phones. Since 2005, 8000 developers have contributed to the Linux kernel, resulting in 15 million lines of code, proving that the Linux project is the World’s largest collaboration software project.”
“All the tools and resources are out there it’s up to us to recognise the benefits and utilise them to our own needs.
OSS within the Government of Malta is governed by the Open Source Software Policy and related Directive. The website of the Government of Malta IT Agency, MITA offers a specific section on OSS which establishes a number of key principles as well as sets a number of immediate and long term objectives intended to take the application of open source software within Government to the next phase.
Zak Borg is a MARSSA project Lead, MARSEC-XL, reporting live from Silicon Valley”
Source: INDEPENDENT online.