More open source news

If it is good enough for the Department of Defense, it should be good enough for CU’s, right? From Colin, the DOD is hosting an open source conference this December in DC.  To quote the DoD article, they are, "Fostering collaboration and interoperability across DoD" Just cross out DoD and put in CU.  The credit union [...]

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Conference Call for an Open Source Core Processor

For the past few months, a small group of people have continued discussing the opportunities in the core processor marketplace and the merits of doing a project like that in the open source space vs closed source.  We are having another conference call later this week, on Friday, September 7th, from 10AM to 11AM Pacific [...]

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How well are credit unions prepared for data center outages?

 Back in July, 365 Main, a major data center hosting companies such as c|net, Craigslist, e-surance, and the Oakland Raiders, lost power.  For most of the day.  And 365 Main has the time, money, and resources to make sure that (almost) never happens.  Here is the full story straight from 365 Main.  Jesse Robbins has a [...]

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Open Source Software and CU's

In an article on TechCrunch today, the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, took some harsh words about the grey line that exists in the open source community: how to make money from it. After BarCampBankSeattle, a small group of us have continued the discussion surrounding the core processing marketplace and opportunities that exist within that [...]

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