Open Source (notes)

Day: 1 Session Time/Number:   10:30 Session Space: E

Convener: Sarah N.
Notetaker: Sarah N.

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Specific resources to share from session:  (links, books, organizations, articles etc.)
https://github.com/Netflix/feign

http://meanjs.org/

nginx

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Discussion Notes:
How to get company to contribute back to open source
What open source products to use for development
What’s popular for startups to use – MEAN stack – mongodb express angularjs nodejs
django /angular node

scala / java – both run on JVM
ansible – easier to set up web servers
Just JS for MEAN – easier to hire people

https://openhatch.org/ to help people starting to contributing to open source

python + flask – tiny sample APi – easy to get started

django vs flask – django more popular?
django – makes it hard to do REST API – flask makes it more easy
mac is middle ground between windows and linux in turns of figuring thigns out

eclipse for java development

docker is a way to run containers (private file systems) more easily. – runs on linux, mac and windows under virtualbox

http://boot2docker.io/ to run docker on mac more easily

mint – linux distribution more like windows

web strategy using drupal – teaching people to work virtually

open source solution for teleconferencing?

how important it is to find ways to demystify what’s going on

apt-get source to look at source of package
src.rpm to get source for rpm derived systems

Virtualbox worth trying