Kenosha, a city of about 100,000, was on the bleeding edge when it began deploying Linux a decade ago. The city had been a Unix shop, but as IT demands became more dynamic and more dependent on the Internet, Schall decided that instead of buying more Unix boxes, it was time to look at an inexpensive alternative. more

i'd like to suggest that we have an event to gather up the tucson standards group(s) with our current members and the design commmunity.

presentation materials?
sponsorship?
food?
music?
promotion?

let's make sure the strategic and LAMPstack roadmaps are in place.

kelley g

As some of you know, every August Toasterz sponsors OpenGroupware.org at Linux World Expo San Francisco. This year I had the pleasure of taking Linux Journal contributing editor, Reg Charney out to lunch to discuss OpenSource developer toolsets and other topics.

OK, enough is enough. Stop splitting hairs about what exactly L.A.M.P. means.

There are too many great tools available to the opensource developer to be exclusive. Exclusion hurts OpenSource.

Let's agree that L.A.M.P. already conveys much more than it's spelling and go along with the inevitable mutation of meaning any significant idea naturally undergoes as it matures.

Let's be inclusive. Any opensource tool that works can be part of L.A.M.P. In fact, let's call our wonderful, enlightening and powerful server platform LAMPstack from now on.

Good news for the LAMP platform! IBM offers Zend Core to reach more developers. Let your clients know momentum continues to build for LAMP.

Check out this eWeek article Microsoft Surprises with Linux 'Hands-On Lab'.

After some thought, online educational materials make good sense. Will begin a forum topic where cirriculum can be discussed, developed and tested.

Input from the business community could be useful in informing academia.

Next steps? Find existing resources, contact appropriate parties, build on or extend existing certification programs.