Open source collabrative network

w3af - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities. It can find Cross site scripting, SQL Injection and lot more. The framework implements web and proxy servers which are easy to integrate into your code in order to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.

Pyfiscan - Free Web Application Vulnerability and Version Scanner

Pyfiscan is free web-application vulnerability and version scanner and can be used to locate out-dated versions of common web-applications in Unix- and Linux-servers. Example use case is hosting-providers keeping eye on their users installations to keep up with security-updates.

Zaproxy - An easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.

Sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.

Wapiti - Web application vulnerability scanner / security auditor

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. It performs "black-box" scans, i.e. it does not study the source code of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a script is vulnerable. It is able to differentiate ponctual and permanent XSS vulnerabilities.

OpenVAS - Vulnerability Scanner and Manager

OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. It is designed to search for networked devices and computers, discover accessible ports and services, and to test for vulnerabilities on any such ports; plugins allow for further expansion.

PyLoris - Vulnerability test for DOS attack

PyLoris is a scriptable tool for testing a server's vulnerability to connection exhaustion denial of service (DoS) attacks. PyLoris can utilize SOCKS proxies and SSL connections, and can target protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet.

OWASP Joomla Vulnerability Scanner Project

Detects file inclusion, sql injection, command execution vulnerabilities of a target Joomla! web site. A regularly-updated signature-based scanner that can detect file inclusion, sql injection, command execution, XSS, DOS, directory traversal vulnerabilities of a target Joomla! web site. It Searches known vulnerabilities of Joomla! and its components, Web application firewall detection and lot more.

SharpZipLib - Compression Library in CSharp

#ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language).

IronWASP - Iron Web application Advanced Security testing Platform

IronWASP (Iron Web application Advanced Security testing Platform) is an open source system for web application vulnerability testing. It is designed to be customizable to the extent where users can create their own custom security scanners using it. Though an advanced user with Python/Ruby scripting expertise would be able to make full use of the platform, a lot of the tool's features are simple enough to be used by absolute beginners.

New Open Source Web Browser Engine from Google and Mozilla

Web Browser engine used to render the page from HTML, CSS and Javascript. The browsers are one of the most important tool to view the web and it is must have software in Desktop and Mobile. These new browsers will take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing desktop and mobile architectures.

Struts 1.x End Of Life. Whats alternative?

The Apache Struts Project Team announced End of Life (EOL) for Struts 1.x web framework. Struts was launched in the year 2000. It is only of the widely used web framework. It gave better control over writing UI and business logic code directly in to JSPs.

EdX - The Future of Online Education from MIT and Harvard

EdX is an online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

Google Open Source Pledge

Open Source is the way to innovate and users using it should have complete freedom. Google has came forward to declare couple of its patents on Map Reduce under Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN Pledge). There are multiple variants of open source license and using that means the product is completely free. Why OPN Pledge is required?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

10 Free services for your Website / Blog. Just plug it.

Each website / blog delivers useful content or service to its users. But website themselves requires some service to monitor and increase its presence. Here are few free services which could be used by Website / Blog. This will be very much helpful for small business owners.

Coursera - Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free

Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Their courses include in various categories like Biology, Business management, Computer science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Nutrition, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Genetics, Data analytics and lot more.

How hashmap works in Java. My style of learning.

This is the most frequently asked questions in the interview. Googling will throw many links related to this topic. How to learn the implementation of hash map? My style of learning using open source learning technique.

Whats new in Lucene / Solr 4.0

The release 4.0 is one of the important milestone for Lucene and Solr. It has lot of new features and performance important. Few important ones are highliggted in this article.

An introduction to MongoDB

MongoDB is the most exciting SQL-free database currently available in the market. The new kid on the block, called MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema free and document oriented database that focuses on the ideas of NoSQL Approach. Written in C++, it has taken rapid strides since its emergence into the public sphere as a popular way to build your database applications.

Open Source Products used in Pinterest

Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love. It is a social networking site where users could pin images and write a note for that. It is now currently serving billions of pages every month. Check out the open source products used in Pinterest.

Open Source used in Barack Obama Campaign

Barack Obama election fundraising campaign was hosted online and the platform was built using open source products. The campaign stayed for 6 months and it has more than 8 million page views. This article explains the open source products used to build the platform.

Open Source Products used in Tumbler

Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 34 billion posts to date. Below is the list of open source used in Tumbler.

Free and Open source tools to build OpenJDK in Windows

OpenJDK is the open source implementation of Java Standard Edition. Oracle (Sun) JDK implementation is going to be based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are almost similar. There are ready made binaries available for Linux distribution but you may need to build OpenJDK on windows.

Open source software used in SourceForge.NET

SourceForge.NET is most popular and widely used Forge. It helps to host software projects. It has integrated support for Wiki, Forum, Tracker and Full text search. The code base named allura, is completely built on open source stack. This article explains few important one used to build SourceForge.NET.

Simple Mail Stack for Linux Hosted Environment

Email is the primary way of communication. Small organization which hosts their website / any other application from a third party hosting service providers may require this email stack.

Zimbra - Enterprise Email Server Stack

Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.

Open source projects used to in Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, collaboratively edited encyclopedia. It is one of the busiest site in the world. It has more than 8 million articles and accessed by millions of users around the world. This article briefly discuss about the open source software used in Wikipedia.

Complete Email Solution for SMB

Email is most important in any organization. Lot of business are happening via Email. This article discusses about the end to end complete Email solution for an organization. What an organization requires? Email spam filtering, Email Server, Email Archiving and Email client. If all are open source then complete solution could be achieved free of cost.

Open Source Technology Stack used in Opentaps ERP

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM, is a fully integrated application suite that supports eCommerce, Customer Relationship Management, Warehouse and Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, and Financial Management to Business Intelligence and mobility integration out-of-the-box. This article discusses about the open source software used to build Opentaps ERP.

Attune University, Ahmedabad

Attune University is new edge Online Learning Management System from the largest corporate training provider Attune Infocom to offer an advantage to organizations and people from Executive to exclusive access on demand. Attune university is the bridge between people and organization by accessing the information that will take people company and its staff to new levels of success.

VARNAAZ Academy Bangalore

VARNAAZ Academy provides Class room training, Corporate training for Hadoop big data and its related technologies. We are Microsoft Authorized Training Partner and we do provide training for Microsoft products.

Spoken Tutorial Project IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay announces Software Training Workshops on FOSS (Free & Open Source Software), absolutely Free of Cost, by Spoken Tutorial Project. This projected is funded by MHRD Ministry of human Resource Development, Government of India.

iSupportVirtual Solutions - Chandigarh, India

iSvs helps companies derive the measurable business value that they have always been looking for from business and IT investments.

Molnfront System Development - Sweden

Molnfront develops HTML pages and templates for Content Management System such as Vosao, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, TypePad and Blogger.

GoodSpring Technologies in Bulgaria

GoodSpring Technologies is ambitious company, offering IT consultancy and support services with the goals of business improvements and increase our clients' competitiveness. We take the innovations, quick solutions and guaranteed quality as normal business behavior, not a luxury.

Silver Arc Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.

IT Training, Consulting and Turn Key Solutions.

Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit - 2013

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations for plenary sessions and workgroup meetings to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today. In 2011, the Collaboration Summit gathered 418 corporate members and invited guests from 26 countries.
Date:April 15-17, 2013

D Programming Language Conference - 2013

DConf 2013, funded on Kickstarted and hosted by Facebook.
Date:May 1- 3, 2013
Venue:1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
http://dconf.org/schedule/index.html

FOSDEM - Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.
Date: 2 & 3 February 2013
Venue: Brussels, Belgium, Europe

API Days in Paris

Web APIs are a unique opportunity for companies, governments and developers to either better organize the governance of their IT into a scalable and flexible model, either leverage a complete ecosystem around the organization, exchanging data through the web for trillion of applications on billion devices. Date:December 3 - 4, 2012

Eclipse Day At Googleplex 2012

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex is a 1-day event for developers to learn about different Eclipse projects and related technologies. You are invited to attend and listen as experts from the Eclipse projects and Google share their experiences of using Eclipse. It's also a great opportunity for you to meet and network with other Eclipse enthusiasts.
Date:December 12 2012

Drupalcamp Delhi 2012

Stacked with awesome sessions, talks, code sprints, training and more, the conference is expected to bring together industry experts, technologists, open source geeks and Drupal enthusiasts. Date:December 8 - 9, 2012
Venue:Convention Centre, JNU

Solr Training in India by Lucid works

Lucid works is organizing Solr training in Gurgaon and Bangalore, India . The fees is approximately 800$. There is a discount for early bird registration.
October 30-31 | Gurgaon
November 2-3 | Bangalore

Zendcon 2012 - PHP Conference in California

This will be the 8th year of ZendCon, which is the largest gathering of the PHP Community. ZendCon 2012 will be focusing on new technologies, Zend Framework 2 and how you can learn from cloud-based technologies. http://www.zendcon.com/
Date:October 22 - 25, 2012
Venue: Santaclara California

JUDCon 2012 - JBoss Users and Developers Conference

The JBoss Users and Developers Conferences are developer gatherings held around the Globe to give JBoss users the chance to talk to and collaborate with leaders in the JBoss community, and to allow the leaders and core developers to learn from and collaborate with end users.
Date:November 29 - 30, 2012
Venue: China

JBoss One Day Talk 2012

it will be the 3rd full day conference organized by the JBoss User Group Munich e.V. On the 10th of October 2012 OneDayTalk 2012 will take place once again in the Conference Center Munich (Konferenzzentrum München). This event's topics focus on Core Frontend Technologies like HTML 5, Java Script and CSS 3. On the other hand there will be talks about various Frameworks for supporting UI development. Build Management is another topic that will be focused in 2012.

Whats new in Linux 3.8

Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.8, it is code named Unicycling Gorilla. It has various improvements in FileSystem, Drivers, Security, Virtualization, Graphics and Networking.

Free Software Foundation Award - 2012

Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non profit organization works for the development for free software. Every year FSF awards two best open source projects. One award is for for the Advancement of Free Software and the other is for Projects of Social Benefit. IPython and OpenMRS are the two projects which won the awards for the year 2012.

Linux 3.7 released

Linux 3.7 has been released on 10 Dec 2012. Its new features include ARM 64-bit support, Cryptographically-signed kernel modules, Btrfs updates, Perf trace, an alternative to strace, TCP Fast Open (server side), Experimental SMB 2 protocol support, NFS v4.1 support no longer experimental, Virtual extensible LAN tunneling protocol, Intel "supervisor mode access prevention" support and lot more.

Free and Open Source Internship for Women

Outreach Program for Women internships, which are available with a number of Free and Open Source Software organizations from January 2 through April 2, 2013. Deltacloud, Fedora, GNOME, Tor, OpenStack, Wikimedia, JBoss and Mozilla are participating in this program. Applicants should atleast choose one project. The selected candidate will get stipend of 5000 dollars.

Lucene and Solr 4.0 released

Lucene and Solr 4.0 is officially released. It is one of the most important milestone for the project. http://lucene.apache.org/

Lucene Architecture Paper

Lucene is one of the most widely used search engine library. It has a history of 10 years of development. Lucene architecture paper is released. http://opensearchlab.otago.ac.nz/paper_10.pdf

Suggest JBoss Application Server a new name

The JBoss Community hosts nearly 100 projects focused on integration, business rules, processes, NoSQL, cloud, mobile, polyglot, messaging, tooling, alternative development frameworks and more. We are asking you, the community, to help the JBoss AS project find a new name. The new name will be found through an election process. Naming submissions will be open between October 1 through October 14.

Java 6 EOL by November 2012

Java 6 SE end of life has been extended from July 2012 to November 2012. This is the policy of Java. Six months after a subsequent major release would be considered as default JRE. This is shorter period for everyone to move. The advantage of this kind of policy would make everyone to move to the latest version and Java team could only concentrate on new releases rather than supporting older ones.

IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the Apache OpenOffice Project

IBM has announced that it will be donate IBM Lotus Symphony source code to the Apache OpenOffice project. Symphony was actually based on OpenOffice. Earlier in June Oracle donated the OpenOffice suite to Apache and now IBM donates its office suite. Apache will be the biggest competitor to Microsoft in office suite product.

Lucene Core 3.3 and Solr 3.3 Released

The Lucene PMC announced the availability of Apache Lucene 3.3 and Apache Solr 3.3. This release has updates like Optimized implementation of KStem, Improvements to MMapDirectory, Spellchecker module, Near-real-time search, Merge policy and lot more. http://lucene.apache.org/