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Standing on the shoulders of giants

I have been involved with the foundation since it’s early days when I attended the first London meetup.  When I started the hubot-symphony project, I had an account on the public Symphony POD and that was it.  Like many open source projects, I started with a selfish purpose, to facilitate moving existing chat bot tools used in my day job onto the Symphony platform as part of evaluating Symphony.  Building software to interface with an API without access to the system itself was certainly a challenge for a modern software engineer and I am glad to say the route I took is consigned to history thanks to the Open Developer Platform (ODP) provided by the Foundation.  I want to discuss my initial development approach and how that has evolved as the Foundation has matured.

How the Symphony Software Foundation enforces IP Compliance of their hosted code

At the Symphony Software Foundation we care a lot about IP Compliance of the software we host, which is why we:

A small team from ChartIQ recently attended the Symphony Software Foundation (SSF) Annual Members Meeting. With us, there were around fifty technology savvy innovators belonging to everything ranging from small fintech startups to large global investment banks.

Colin Eberhardt, technology director at Scott Logic and the first At-Large Member of the Symphony Software Foundation, isn’t shy about expressing his appreciation for open source. He spends many weekends and evenings on GitHub as an active member of the open source community, contributing to projects of various scales. With each project, he learned something new.

Governments, corporations and cybersecurity experts are still reeling after getting a taste of the most widespread ransomware attack to date. Only a few weekends ago, over 200,000 computers in 99 countries were hit by the unprecedented “Wanna” ransomware attack, also known as: WannaCry, WCry, WanaCrypt and WanaCrypt0r.

When we talk about the web, we think of tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that have come to dominate the public web, or the latest breath-takingly valued startups, which are yet to turn a profit but are experiencing triple-digit growth. These companies have hundreds of millions of users and are household names around the globe. As a result of this success and the resources at their disposal, these ventures have made significant contributions to the technology of web development, giving developers excellent tools that are easy to learn, powerful to use and free.