Open Source Lab

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The Open Source Lab is a group at Oregon State University dedicated to supporting and developing Open Source software. A wide range of projects are hosted at the lab including Gentoo, Mozilla, Debian, and Freenode. Development projects include Maintain and the OLPC. The lab was founded by Scott Kveton and Jason McKerr in 2003 and is currently managed by Lance Albertson, North Krimsly, and Jeff Sheltren.

The OSL hosts an annual conference for people using and developing open source software in the public sector called GOSCON.

Contents 1 Hosting 2 Development 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Hosting

A large variety of open source projects are hosted by the OSL. They provide a managed and unmanaged dedicated hosting environment for open source software development. The lab often hosts projects that have outgrown services such as SourceForge or GNU Savannah.

Projects at least partially hosted by the OSL.^[1]

• Apache Software Foundation
• Aqsis
• Ark Linux
• BusyBox
• cAos Linux
• Debian Linux
• Drupal
• Eclipse Communication Framework
• Finnix
• Freenode
• Gentoo Linux
• GNOME
• GOSCON
• Handhelds.org
• Jaws
• KDE
• KernelTrap
• LinuxChix
• Linux Kernel
• Linux Lookup
• Mozdev
• Mozilla Foundation
• Mozillazine
• MusicBrainz
• MythTV
• NSLU2-Linux
• OFTC
• OLPC
• OpenOffice.org
• Oregon State Linux Users Group
• PHP
• phpBB
• PostgreSQL
• PPCKernel and PenguinPPC
• Slackware
• Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
• Tillikum
• VectorLinux
• Xiph

Alongside the wide range of hosted projects, the OSL provides an HTTP and FTP mirror infrastructure mirroring a number of other open source projects. As of January 2008, there are file mirrors in Corvallis, Atlanta, and Chicago.^[2]

Public PowerPC development resources are also made available to developers working on projects that target the PowerPC, PowerPC64, and IBM Cell processors.^[3]

[edit] Development

Another area where the Open Source Lab contributes heavily to the open source community is the actual writing of code. Many of the active developers are students at Oregon State University. There are three projects that are the primary focus.

• Maintain - A multi-user, web based management tool for DNS and DHCP. Written in PHP/MySQL.^[4]
• RAIV - Rack and Inventory management system. Written in PHP/MySQL.
• OLPC - MITs One Laptop Per Child project. Watch and Listen and the Helix media player were written for the device.

[edit] External links

• OSU Open Source Lab
• Government Open Source Conference

[edit] References

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