GroundWork Open Source Reconvenes Its Open Source Council At LinuxWorld To Stay On The Leading Edge In IT Management
GroundWork Open Source Reconvenes its Open Source Council at LinuxWorld
Council provides project leads with rare opportunity to exchange ideas and meet with users face-to-face
San Francisco, CA—August 1, 2007 — GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source IT Management, announced today that it is convening its Open Source Council for the second year in a row in conjunction with LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. The council provides GroundWork with ongoing guidance for its product roadmap, and is comprised of lead developers from today’s best-of-breed open source IT infrastructure and network monitoring projects. Council members will use the occasion to exchange ideas and compare visions, while also giving LinuxWorld attendees the opportunity to meet with them face-to-face.
“With the invaluable assistance of the council, GroundWork continues to stay on the leading edge in open source IT management. Sponsoring the council is part of our commitment to provide community-endorsed tools in a platform that is easy to use and meets the needs of IT today and tomorrow,” said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork Open Source.
LinuxWorld attendees can meet with council members during the following activities: at hour-long "Ask the Expert" sessions throughout Tuesday, August 7 and Wednesday, August 8 at the GroundWork booth in the exhibits area (Booth 501) and at a "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) session at 6PM on Tuesday, August 7. Both venues give users the chance to chat directly with project leads to ask questions and provide feedback based on their experiences.
GroundWork created the Open Source Council last year to underscore the company’s commitment to provide the best and most comprehensive IT monitoring and management system possible. GroundWork also hosts the popular Monitoring Special Interest Group (SIG) for BayLISA, which meets monthly to address issue in monitoring design, configuration, and deployment.
“Equally important is the benefit the council provides to the open source community in general,” said Peter Mui, Open Source Community Advocate for Groundwork. “For example, last year Matt Massie and Tobi Oetiker met in person for the first time, and discussed a change to the RRDtool database schema that would make Ganglia more efficient. Tobi returned to Switzerland, thought about it, and implemented the changes Matt proposed. When a group of developers of this caliber get together, the innovation that results benefits everyone.”
Members of the Open Source Council include:
- Alex Russell – Dojo, http://dojotoolkit.org/
- Ethan Galstad – Nagios, http://www.nagios.org/
- Howard Jones - php-Weathermap, http://www.network-weathermap.com/
- Ian Berry – Cacti, http://www.cacti.net/
- Kees Cook – Sendpage, http://www.sendpage.org/
- Matt Massie – Ganglia, http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
- Remo Rickli – NeDi, http://nedi.sourceforge.net/
- Roger Ruttimann–Foundation, http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwfoundation/
- Scott Parris–Monarch, http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch/
- Taylor Dondich–Fruity, http://fruity.sourceforge.net/
- Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, and Smokeping, http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Schedule of “Ask the Expert” sessions, LinuxWorld Expo, booth 501:
- Tuesday:
- 11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi
2-3 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti
4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap - Wednesday:
- 11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
2-3 Ethan Galstad - Nagios
3-4 Remo Rickli - NeDi
4-5 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
More information about the Open Source Council Meeting BoF at LinuxWorld is available here: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYB001HW5
More information about the BayLISA Monitoring SIG, hosted by Groundwork, is available here: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/monitoring-sig.html
About GroundWork
San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the fastest growing provider of open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class IT management solutions that offer unprecedented network, system and application availability at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. An integral part of GroundWork’s “Just Right IT Management” philosophy is to ensure that its software and services seamlessly integrate with a customer’s management solutions – thus preserving their existing investment while simultaneously providing value. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like AOL, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, WebMD and World Bank. GroundWork’s solutions are available from GroundWork, its partners including Redhat, Unisys, Fujitsu, and a worldwide network of channel partners. The company is privately held, with investments from Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures.
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