ZDNet (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the...
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has said Canonical is hiring a team to make open-source desktop software more appealing
Cnet (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Canonical, the leading backer of the , is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use.The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including Gnome and KDE, Mark...
LWN.net (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Linux-Watch wraps up OSCON , the O'Reilly Open Source Convention held last July. " This year, OSCON introduced the Open Mobile Exchange, a one-day event addressing business, technology, web, and open source topics related to the mobile technology industry. Other events included a "hallway track" held to "debate and discuss important issues," as well as an OSCamp,...
DesktopLinux.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Wrapping up the OSCON (Open Source Convention) held in Portland, Oregon on July 21-25, show organizer O'Reilly Media has posted photos, videos, and presentations files. Meanwhile, winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards and the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards have also been announced.
Linux-Watch.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Wrapping up the OSCON (Open Source Convention) held in Portland, Oregon on July 21-25, show organizer O'Reilly Media has posted photos, videos, and presentations files. Meanwhile, winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards and the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards have also been announced.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... business beyond retail to offer online technology services.Amazon sent recruiters to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in July in hopes of wooing technology workers, Computerworld recently reported."A lot of times, people put us only in the retail category, and that is not correct," Amazon's vice president of global talent acquisition, Brian Krueger, told the technology news...
ITBusiness.ca - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... to fill the jobs they have available isn't proving to be easy. For example, there are plenty of open jobs for software developers with experience building wireless or embedded applications, according to Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing at Yoh Services LLC, a Philadelphia-based staffing agency and outsourcing vendor. "It's a dead-on market for those guys, with unemployment...
