Open Source

Rackspace

2013-07-08T09:05:00.000-07:00

Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the service leader in cloud computing. We deliver enterprise-class hybrid cloud infrastructures to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We started in 1998 and we host more than 205,000 customers worldwide.
Rackspace combines public cloud, private cloud, and dedicated bare metal computing to provide the perfect infrastructure for each customer’s specific needs. And, the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud is powered by OpenStack® and backed by Fanatical Support.

Rackspace Overview
The Fundamentals

Founded in 1998
Based in San Antonio, TX
Nine (9) Data Centers: Grapevine, TX; Richardson, TX; Chicago, IL; Herndon, VA; Ashburn, VA; London, UK; Slough, UK; Hong Kong; Sydney, AUS
Hybrid cloud offerings combine public cloud, private cloud and dedicated bare metal hosting to work as one
All backed by Fanatical Support®
4,800 Rackspace employees worldwide

Industry Leadership

Founded OpenStack in 2010

Rackspace is a leader in the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, North America. The full report can be viewed here.
Industry-Leading Service Level Agreements
Cisco Powered Network: 100% Network Uptime Guarantee
Microsoft Gold-Certified Hosting Partner
Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year — 2003, 2005, 2007, 2012
Red Hat Premier Hosting Partner
MySQL Certified Hosting Partner
Managed Service on Both Dedicated and Cloud Platforms

Focus
Everything we do is tailored for IT hosting
Hosting is not an add-on service or loss leader, it’s all we do

Expertise
Systems and processes built exclusively for delivering the best hybrid cloud experience
Our support engineers have the experience to support the most complex applications and websites

Flexibility
We’re built on OpenStack and able to deliver highly customized environments
Our model is built to adjust to customer needs quickly and efficiently

Passion
We’re passionate about the hybrid cloud and OpenStack and we’re here to stay
We believe what we are doing makes a difference

Mingus( Music package for python)

2013-06-11T06:33:00.001-07:00

What's mingus?

Intervals, Chords, Scales and Progressions

mingus is a package for Python used by programmers, musicians, composers and researchers to make and investigate music. At the core of mingus is music theory, which includes topics like intervals, chords, scales and progressions. These components are rigorously tested and can be used to generate and recognize musical elements using convenient shorthand where possible (for example some acceptable chords are: "CM7", "Am6", "Ab7", "G7").

Bars, Tracks and Compositions

On top of the core are data structures (mingus.containers) that make it easier to work with notes in bars, tracks and compositions. These containers lay the foundation for the remaining packages: midi and extra.

MIDI and Sequencing

The MIDI package can save and load MIDI files, and -last but not least- provides a general purpose sequencer for all the containers and a FluidSynth sequencer subclass. This allows you to play all your data structures straight from Python in just a couple of lines. Most of the icky timing and MIDI code has been abstracted away for you, leaving a clean, relatively simple API.

Extra

Lastly, the extra package includes a LilyPond exporter which can be used to create sheet music in PDF, PNG and postscript. It also offers ASCII tablature and MusicXML exporting and a sound analysis module which can recognize notes and melody in raw audio data.

Xapian

2013-05-30T07:59:00.002-07:00

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby,Lua and Erlang (so far!)

Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

If you're after a packaged search engine for your website, you should take a look at Omega: an application we supply built upon Xapian. Unlike most other website search solutions, Xapian's versatility allows you to extend Omega to meet your needs as they grow.

Google Summer Of Code (GSOC)

2013-04-20T22:21:00.001-07:00

As the Website says "Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer."

In the Open source community there are a lot of projects you can work on as a student. GSOC is a student program where you can work on a new idea or existing ideas with any mentoring organization of your interest that have been approved by Google. The mentoring organization include several open source organizations including Mozilla , KDE and so on.

If your project is approved, you just got lucky. You can spend your summer coding and as a result benefit from a hefty stipend of 5000 dollars. Moreover participating in GSOC is very prestigious and can bestow you with lot of opportunities and learning experience.

If you are really interested and know more refer this official link. If you have crossed the application deadline, please start preparing for GSOC 2k14 and all the best for the same.

If you have any clarifications or need help please comment below

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2013-04-01T06:44:00.001-07:00

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