WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: SpringBox, An OpenSource project from dLoo (www.dloo.com) WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol WHEN: February 12th, 2002 @ 7:30PM ---- Hello once again, everyone! This month we've got some folks from a software company in Petaluma coming to talk to us about an OpenSource project they are working on. Their project is called SpringBox. Here's a few words from them directly about their project: For the past two years our company, dLoo, has been developing a new way of creating and sharing open source software. The result of our work is a project called SpringBox. Before the Web, information was trapped in proprietary databases and couldn't be linked together. The Web overthrew that model, and replaced it with a model in which information was public and linkable. These two traits made the value of the information available online grow exponentially. Today, open source software is trapped on individual computers and can't be linked together. SpringBox makes it possible to build networks of software out of distributed units of code that live on the Internet. With SpringBox, open source developers can post code publicly, like web pages, and other developers can improve and extend their code by linking to it. We believe SpringBox has the potential to do for open source software what the Web did for online information. Our presentation will discuss SpringBox, this new unit of code (the Word) and the way that Words can be used to construct an extensible Linux software environments. As always, please be sure to show up a little before the meeting time so the meeting can get underway as close to 7:30 as possible. Also, don't forget we have an InstallFest coming up on the 16th of February. Please visit http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to get all the details and to sign-up. See you all next week! -Dustin -- Founder & President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org