Tonnerre Lombard
FFII’s coordinator for Switzerland
OSS Jam Reloaded in Zurich
After the success of the first OSS jam, Google invites people to a second round in its new Zurich office on February 28th, 2008. Once again, participants are invited to present their projects in a short 5-minute time frame, trying to find future project contributers.
This time, a topic has been set for submissions: «The desktop in the past, present and future». People who are seeking for participation in their desktop projects are invited to present them at the jam.
OSS Jam and Google
The question is of course how this fits into Google’s search engine business. To this question, there are two different, unrelated answers.
Firstly, Google has extended its scope beyond search engines quite some time ago. Like Yahoo delivered widgets for web applications, Google also delivered the Google Widget Toolkit for Java web applications and similar products, and is expanding its scope to Open Source and the community.
Secondly, Google’s OSS Jam provides the Open Source community with ways to find new participants for their projects, and as such, there is a philosophical relation to the search business.
Either way, it is going to be interesting to watch the future development of this tradition.
For more information please visit Google’s Open Source Jam information site.