Open Source Lab

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 Ganeti Web Manager, Pydra, and Touchscreen. The lab was founded by Scott Kveton and Jason McKerr in 2003 and is currently managed by Lance Albertson, Peter Krenesky, and Jeff Sheltren.

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

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
• Arklinux
• BusyBox
• Cacti
• cAos Linux
• CentOS
• Cfengine
• CiviCRM
• CONNECT^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Debian Linux
• Deluge
• Drupal
• DSpace
• Eclipse Communication Framework
• Enlightenment
• Etherboot
• Fedora Project
• Finnix
• FOSSBazaar
• FOSSology
• Freenode
• Gentoo Foundation
• GNOME
• Gnome-Hispano
• GOSCON
• Handhelds.org
• Jaws
• KDE
• Kernel.org
• Kerneltrap
• LinuxChix
• Linux Foundation
• Linux Fund
• LinuxLookup
• Mozdev
• Mozillazine
• MusicBrainz
• MythTV
• NSLU2-Linux
• One Laptop Per Child
• Open and Free Technology Community
• Open Clip Art Library
• Openembedded
• Open Font Library
• OpenMRS
• OpenOffice.org
• Oregon State Linux Users Group
• ParrotVM
• Participatory Culture Foundation
• PHP
• phpBB
• Plone
• PPCKernel and PenguinPPC
• RPM
• Slackware
• Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
• Sugar Labs^[2][3][4]
• TeachEngineering
• Tillikum.org
• Trinity Rescue Kit
• TriSano
• VectorLinux
• WebDAV
• Xiph
• Yum

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 July 2010, there are file mirrors in Corvallis, New York City, and Chicago.^[5]

Public PowerPC development resources are also made available to developers working on projects that target the PowerPC, PowerPC64, and IBM Cell processors.^[6]

Development

The Open Source Lab also provides contributions to the open-source community through in-house development services. Many of the developers are students at Oregon State University.

Active projects

Projects under active development by the OSL:

• Ganeti Web Manager - Web based virtual machine management for Ganeti. ^[7]
• Ganeti Instance Image - A guest OS definition for Ganeti. ^[8]
• Pydra - A distributed and parallel computing framework for python.^[9]
• Muddle - A plugin manager sub-framework for Django. ^[10]
• Touchscreen - A framework for developing interactive kiosk displays. ^[11]

Inactive projects

Projects that are no longer under active development by the OSL:

• Maintain - A multi-user, web based management tool for DNS and DHCP. Written in PHP/MySQL.^[12]
• 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.

External links

• OSU Open Source Lab
• Government Open Source Conference

References

1. ^ OSU Open Source Lab - Hosted and mirrored open-source communities
2. ^ Infrastructure Team - Sugar Labs
3. ^ Infrastructure_Team/Resources - Sugar Labs
4. ^ Sugar Labs | Open Source Lab
5. ^ OSL Ftp Map
6. ^ PowerDev Environment Access
7. ^ Ganeti Web Manager
8. ^ Ganeti Instance Image
9. ^ Pydra
10. ^ Muddle
11. ^ Touchscreen
12. ^ Maintain