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Google has announce that they will extend the Summer of Code application deadline to Monday, April 7, 2008.

Here's your chance to get paid $4,500 to work on open source software! Apply now at: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

We are happy to announce that the OSUOSL has been accepted to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code program. This will be the third year we are participating, and we are hoping it will be an even greater success than last year.

Are you a student who would like to get paid to work on Open Source Software? Google will pay $4500 to each applicant who successfully works with an approved organization (OSUOSL is one of them) on an Open Source project!

As of Monday, March 24th, Google is accepting student applications to participate in Summer of Code (SoC). If you are a student interested in participating, we'd love to have you work on one of our projects. You can read a list of our project ideas here -- http://dokuwiki.osuosl.org/soc/ideas We are happy to answer any questions you may have, just come by #osuosl on irc.freenode.net. If you have any ideas that aren't listed, we may be interested in those as well; feel free to drop by our IRC channel to discuss it with us.

If you'd like more information about the SoC program, check out the official FAQs: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html

To apply, go to: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

The FOSSBazaar community site and the FOSSology project are now being hosted at the Open Source Lab.

FOSSBazaar provides information regarding many topics involving Open Source Software including IP issues, Licensing, Security, Support options, and much more. The site aims to provide a gathering place to discuss, explore, share experiences, and cooperatively solve issues related to FOSS governance.

The FOSSology project analyzes source code to quickly report on what licenses are being used by a certain project. It can be extended to scan and analyze other data inside of source code such as code re-use, security alerts and bug fixes. The OSUOSL is hosting the FOSSology web site and email as well as a local installation of the FOSSology software.

We are happy to announce the Open Source Lab is now hosting the main infrastructure for the Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux. To achieve these tasks, the LF provides legal services to Linux developers, collaborates on the Linux Standards Base (LSB), hosts events for the Linux community, and responds in the press to competitors' attacks on Linux. The OSL hosts the Linux Foundation's infrastructure including web sites, email, and development machines.

Oregon State University Open Source Lab has begun a new Drupal training program aimed at OSU faculty and staff. Drupal has already been deployed by Central Web Services for many departments on campus, and we hope that by providing Author and Administrator training we will help other departments on campus adopt Drupal as the content management system for their web sites.

More information about the OSUOSL Drupal Training can be found on our Drupal Training Page.

The training sessions are available to OSU faculty and staff, but anyone can download and use the training materials. Currently, only the Author Training is complete, but check back soon for more information on the Administrator Training.

OSU Faculty and Staff can sign up now for the training.

The Open Source Lab is now hosting an OLPC Community Support Site.

The support site provides a portal to various OLPC resources such as forum, chat, and email lists. If you own an XO laptop, are thinking of purchasing one, or just want to check things out, be sure to head over to the site: http://forum.laptop.org

We're pleased to announce DemocracyLab is now hosted at the OSL.

A self-described interactive online think tank, DemocracyLab is a nonprofit and non-partisan organization founded with the goal of creating a virtual community dedicated to improving the democratic process and producing collaborative solutions to public policy problems. The project underway is creating a system that takes participants’ posts and votes to build a dynamic map of political thought designed to facilitate consensus building and collaborative problem solving. The intended result is a web-based "public forum where the best thinking rises to the top, creating a community-driven alternative to traditional politics".

More information is available at: http://democracylab.org

The Open Source Lab is now providing web and development hosting for Tillikum. Tillikum is an open source housing information management system designed to provide a web interface application for the daily operations managed by housing services. It is initially intended to facilitate assignment and auto allocation, room/space management, billing, conduct process and records, and conference scheduling. Tillikum currently has contributors from multiple schools including Oregon State University, The Evergreen State College, and Western Washington University. You can read more about Tillikum at http://tillikum.org/

We are happy to announce the Jaws Project is now being hosted at the Open Source Lab. Jaws is a content management system and framework used to create dynamic web sites. Written in PHP, it provides a simple yet powerful framework for developers to design their own modules. The OSL is now providing web, development, and mailing list hosting for the Jaws Project. You can find out more about Jaws at their website: http://www.jaws-project.com

With popularity of open-source software applications steadily increasing around the globe, organizers of the third-annual Government Open Source Conference, set for Oct. 15-16 in Portland, Ore., expect their biggest crowd yet of attendees focused on open source for public institutions.

GOSCON ’07’s focus is open standards and “interoperability” – the ability of software and hardware systems to exchange and use information. Standards and interoperability have become major concerns in recent years as the need for government agencies to share information across jurisdictions becomes critical in areas such as health and human services, public safety, transit and transportation, environment and regulatory agencies.