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COSS License Helpdesk is a flexible, fast and effective advisory service for COSS business members. The package includes:

1. Assessment of the client’s problem
2. Basic legal advice
3. Recommendation for actions and financial assessment

The service doesn’t include the preparation of documents, contracts, etc.

The service is available in regular office hours by e-mail: helpdesk@coss.fi. It is offered free of charge for COSS business members

About Summer Code

WTH is this?
COSS and a number of companies are hiring students to code in open source projects.
 
And it works exactly how?

Summercoders for 2006 were chosen in a final contest held in Helsinki at 7th of March 2006. The five chosen students got a ”summer job” doing an open source project. The applications gave the students a chance not only to suggest the project of participation, but also the particular tasks. The criteria stressed on business viewpoints though subjects of applications weren’t chosen in advance.

The Summercode 2007 project employs five university students for the summer. Summercoders for this year were chosen at Helsinki University of Technology.

2008 Summercoders have finished their projects

COSS and a number of Finnish companies hired Finnish university students to code in open source projects during summer.

The coders and their projects were:

Antti Kaijanmäki – Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant for NetworkManager
Juuso Alasuutari – Improving the LASH Audio Session Handler
Niklas Laxström – I18n with MediaWiki
Olli Savolainen – Moodle Quiz

Summer Code Finland is an annual project, which aims to support Finnish participation in significant open source projects and to strengthen the open source competencies that companies need.

2009 Summercoders have been chosen!

Tanu Kaskinen: D-Bus Interface for PulseAudio
Akseli Mantila: Banshee shoutcast/streamtuner
Riku Salminen: XCB and OpenGL 3.0

A workshop on Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) version 5 will be organized at the Valamo monastery, Jan 8-9, 2009 Read more (in Finnish): http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/LTSP5_Ty%C3%B6paja_2009

Antti Kaijanmäki participated in the COSS Summer Code project and worked on improvements that make mobile networking in Linux easier. The users have praised the new easy networking features first implemented in Ubuntu 8.10. Kaijanmäki’s part is the clickthrough installation of mobile networking. Applications for COSS Summer Code 2009 open in January.

COSS Tiedote, julkaistavissa heti

Antti Kaijanmäen Kesäkoodi-projektissa parantamat Linuxin verkko-ominaisuudet ovat saaneet aikaan tyytyväistä hyrinää. Ubuntu on ensimmäinen Linux-jakelu, jossa mobiiliyhteyksien hallinnan voi hoitaa valikko-ohjatusti. Ensi vuoden Kesäkoodi-haku alkaa tammikuussa 2009.

A recent study by Open Forum Europe (OFE) has shown that 25% of all the procurements published in EU’s Tenders Electronic Daily service from 1.2. to 25.4.2008 may brake legistlation. These procurement documents (34 of them) contained mentions about software brand names, which is against the law.

Read the whole press release and report

COSS Tiedote 3.11.2008, julkaistavissa heti

Julkisissa hankinnoissa avoimuus ja läpinäkyvyys hankintoja tehtäessä on rehdin kilpailun ehto. Organisaatiot pyrkivät ottamaan työssään nämä periaatteet huomioon monilla eri tavoilla.

Open source procurement guide for Finnish public sector is available for comments. The guide, prepared by COSS, is intended to publish as a Public Administration Recommendation.

Recommendation draft and instructions how to send feedback are available at http://www.jhs-suositukset.fi//web/guest/alho-palautep2008-10-13 (only in Finnish). Please send your feedback before 10th October 2008.

JHS-jaosto pyytää palautetta Suomen open source -keskus COSSin tuottamasta suositusluonnoksesta Avoimen lähdekoodin hankintaopas. Suosituksen tarkoitus on opastaa julkisen hallinnon organisaatioita avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmistojen hankinnassa ja käyttöönotossa. Lisäksi se tarjoaa perustietoa avoimesta lähdekoodista ja sen hankintaan liittyvistä juridisista kysymyksistä.

Linkki: Talouselämä: Avoin lähdekoodi ei ole tavaraa