Octopod Episode 1: What is an Open Source Community?
In Episode 1 of the OCTOpod, Alan Clark talks with Thierry Carrez about open source communities: what they are, how they work and how you can get involved.
In Episode 1 of the OCTOpod, Alan Clark talks with Thierry Carrez about open source communities: what they are, how they work and how you can get involved.
I’m thrilled to say that OpenSearch has reached general availability (GA) with the release of version 1.0. This release represents a significant milestone and noteworthy accomplishment for a new open source initiative that was only launched a few months ago. I vividly remember that moment at the beginning of the year when we all woke up to Elastic’s announcement that it would take Elasticsearch and Kibana off the Apache 2.0 OSS license.
OpenSearch is a community response to the recent relicensing of Elasticsearch as a non-Open Source platform. AWS, Logz.io, and a number of partners have been working for months not only to make this merely compatible with Elasticsearch as a functional replacement, but also seeking to create an independent project roadmap.
If you’re here you probably know the essence of open source already. To us, open source means more than just open source code – it’s also the ethics and the community feeling that goes along with that. For us it means that the people working on Icinga are more than just who we see in our office – Icinga lives from your ideas and contributions. And we want to invite you to join in on the fun!
Welcome to the second edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.
OpenSearch has been a buzz in DevOps over the first half of 2021. The project is moving forward, but understandably there are a lot of questions. This article will address some of those frequently asked questions, and will be updated to address more over time.