Comments on: More on the BBC meeting http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: PhillC http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116909 PhillC Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:54:33 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116909 <p>Alastair: The BBC does quite a few things with Open Source software. Perhaps their two best known projects are the Dirac video codec:</p> <p>http://dirac.sourceforge.net/</p> <p>And the Ingex ingest system:</p> <p>http://ingex.sourceforge.net/</p> <p>The BBC has also built for internal use a Perl MVC Framework, although I'm not aware of it being released externally:</p> <p>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl<em>on</em>rails.shtml</p> Alastair: The BBC does quite a few things with Open Source software. Perhaps their two best known projects are the Dirac video codec:

http://dirac.sourceforge.net/

And the Ingex ingest system:

http://ingex.sourceforge.net/

The BBC has also built for internal use a Perl MVC Framework, although I’m not aware of it being released externally:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perlonrails.shtml

]]> By: Nick Reynolds (editor, BBC Internet Blog) http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116868 Nick Reynolds (editor, BBC Internet Blog) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:11:51 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116868 <p>You may also be interested in George Wright's account of the meeting:</p> <p>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/ubuntu_installfest.html</p> You may also be interested in George Wright’s account of the meeting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/ubuntu_installfest.html

]]> By: Nick Reynolds (editor, BBC Internet Blog) http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116862 Nick Reynolds (editor, BBC Internet Blog) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:46:25 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116862 <p>George Wright's blog post about the meeting may be of interest:</p> <p>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/ubuntu_installfest.html</p> George Wright’s blog post about the meeting may be of interest:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/ubuntu_installfest.html

]]> By: Tom Mann http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116797 Tom Mann Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:06:16 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116797 <p>I think Jono's got it right with Ashley - get him hooked and we have a friend in a high(er) place at the beeb. Sadly the deal has already been done with Microsoft but Ashley's enlightenment would be good for us all :)</p> I think Jono’s got it right with Ashley – get him hooked and we have a friend in a high(er) place at the beeb. Sadly the deal has already been done with Microsoft but Ashley’s enlightenment would be good for us all :)

]]> By: Kevin Mark http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116790 Kevin Mark Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:00:06 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116790 <p>What about the recent BBC story about people realizing what is in those nasty EULAs and show how FLOSS would be one way around this. And the other thing: saving money (schools, SMBs, non-profits), the environment (reuse of old tech), ...</p> What about the recent BBC story about people realizing what is in those nasty EULAs and show how FLOSS would be one way around this. And the other thing: saving money (schools, SMBs, non-profits), the environment (reuse of old tech), …

]]> By: Paul Boddie http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116781 Paul Boddie Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:16:27 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116781 <p>"We then moved on to talk in more detail about the Open Source philosophy"</p> <p>What about the Free Software philosophy? It seems to me to be somewhat more robust than the "all bugs are shallow" stuff which conveniently tiptoes around any mention of freedom (so as not to upset the suits), and then experiences a crisis as something like the recent vmsplice exploit comes up.</p> <p>Although respectable hardware support for Linux is an enabler that gets the whole GNU/Linux thing through the door, the kernel development process is hardly the most appealing thing to me or, I'd imagine, to many others.</p> “We then moved on to talk in more detail about the Open Source philosophy”

What about the Free Software philosophy? It seems to me to be somewhat more robust than the “all bugs are shallow” stuff which conveniently tiptoes around any mention of freedom (so as not to upset the suits), and then experiences a crisis as something like the recent vmsplice exploit comes up.

Although respectable hardware support for Linux is an enabler that gets the whole GNU/Linux thing through the door, the kernel development process is hardly the most appealing thing to me or, I’d imagine, to many others.

]]> By: Karthik S http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116775 Karthik S Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:38:57 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116775 <p>Recently I was listening to BBC radio (world service I think) and I was shocked when in a IT related program (sorry forgot the name) the host (from BBC) was trying to explain something about linux and said something like "it is better to stick to MS/Apple as they are newer and emerging tech, whereas linux does not have so much new/advanced technology and one might have significant problems getting job ! I will try to find the name of the programme and post to you. (I hope it is not the same guy)</p> Recently I was listening to BBC radio (world service I think) and I was shocked when in a IT related program (sorry forgot the name) the host (from BBC) was trying to explain something about linux and said something like “it is better to stick to MS/Apple as they are newer and emerging tech, whereas linux does not have so much new/advanced technology and one might have significant problems getting job ! I will try to find the name of the programme and post to you. (I hope it is not the same guy)

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116763 Adam Williamson Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:50 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116763 <p>It's never a good day when you have your name in the tech press being compared to Wernher von Braun (via Tom Lehrer):</p> <p>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/iplayer<em>isps</em>broke/</p> It’s never a good day when you have your name in the tech press being compared to Wernher von Braun (via Tom Lehrer):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/iplayerispsbroke/

]]> By: redintray http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116757 redintray Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:10:13 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116757 <p>And how DID you make the distinction between Canonical and the Community?</p> And how DID you make the distinction between Canonical and the Community?

]]> By: Alastair http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/02/20/more-on-the-bbc-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-116753 Alastair Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:05:32 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1138#comment-116753 <p>/brown nose</p> <p>:razz:</p> <p>only kidding, well done for pushing open source software to some of the most influential people in the land, i think i read somewhere that the BBC uses some FOSS for recording and editing its programs?</p> /brown nose

:razz:

only kidding, well done for pushing open source software to some of the most influential people in the land, i think i read somewhere that the BBC uses some FOSS for recording and editing its programs?

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