Rajdeep Dua looks at the evolution of the social web and the need for OpenSocial and the OpenSocial foundation. He also covers the details of the OpenSocial APIs, Javascript, REST APIs and OAuth based Authentication. Finally he looks at what’s new in OpenSocial spec and the architecture of Shindig ( OpenSocial reference implementation )

A couple of years back, the phrase “Open Source” would have brought to mind visions of a geek hacking away, driven purely by the joy of creating living, breathing code and deriving satisfaction from just seeing his code being used and acknowledged by others.

A couple of years back, the phrase ‘Open Source’ would have brought to mind visions of a geek hacking away, driven purely by the joy of creating living, breathing code and deriving satisfaction from just seeing his code being used and acknowledged by others.

Pune Python meet organized by PythonThreads.com is scheduled on 30th September. The main purpose of the meet is to introduce Django to Python web framework developers and encourage them to use it in their daily tasks. Amitabh Jain will speak on Django. In the IndicThreads.com Java meet, Amol Raje will talk about Portlets.

For several years, SourceForge has been the standard for open source projects. There wasn’t any competition as fulfilling the needs of a demanding open source community is anything but simple. SourceForge has done exceptionally well for so long, but now there’s an alternative.

Coverity, makers of a source code analysis solution, today announced preliminary findings showing that open source developers fixed a software defect every six minutes in the week following Coverity’s analysis that established a baseline metric for software quality.