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Open Source Projects Outsourcing: North-by-South
http://robertogaloppini.net/ 2008/ 05/ 06/ open-source-projects-outsourcing-north-by...
North-by-South, is an open source company based in San Francisco and Sao Paulo (Brazil), is getting work from the Bay and organizing teams of open source programmers from Central & South America to do the jobs. North-by-South, officially started in July 2006 in Sao Paulo at a developers get-together organized for open source veterans, currently have about 30 programmers in its open source developers network and it is planning to expand to 100 developers by January 2009. Barbie made in Brazil by wagner_arts I asked Ryan Bagueros, formerly head of engineering at Tagged, is the North-by-South founder, and co-founder of San Francisco Community Colo, how do they commercialize their services.
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North-by-South featured on open source business analysis website
http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/05/09/north-by-south-featur...Roberto Galoppini maintains a website described as “where business meets open source”. He recently e-mailed us with some questions and then featured some info about North-by-South on his site. He articulates our model with some technical economic terms: Brazil and South America as a whole have an absolute advantage over USA in producing open source software, and as a matter of fact what is going on with the free software movement in Latin America is pretty peculiar. An absolute advantage is a concept that comes out of economic theory and it is described on Wikipedia as: A country has an absolute advantage over another in producing a good, if it can produce that good using fewer resources than another country. For example if one unit of labor in Scotland can produce 80 units of wool or 20 units of wine; while in Spain one unit of labor makes 50 units of wool or 75 units of wine, then Scotland has an absolute advantage in producing wool and Spain has an absolute advantage in producing wine. And, this is true! One of the side benefits of the widespread adoption of free software by Latin American governments is that they are developing the absolute advantage that their countries have in developing open source software and North-by-South, through 10+ years of collaboration within the region, is uniquely positioned to give companies in O Norte access to this advantage. Thank you, Roberto!
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Лучшие проекты и события в российском промдизайне в 2006 году
http://nowosti.org/05/261/Ссылки по теме: China’s Olympics - the lull after the storm, Kerry Brown Open Source Projects Outsourcing: North-by-South Ribbit Launches Voice Capabilities for Salesforce Президентский срок здакончилсяВестиRu - 6 имн. назадВосемь лет президентства Путина - это еще и исторический процесс воссоединения Русской Православной Церкви, впервые узаконенная купля-продажа земли для граждан, другой порядок формирования СтоветаФедерации, конвертируемый рубль, почти удвоенный ВВП – события, в общем, разного порядка и характрера Но целью их Путин всегда называл достойную жизнь граждан. Это была встреча с лидерами думских фракций. Рядом с Путиным - избранный президент Медведев. Его действующий глава государства поддержал на выборах, …
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North-by-South Outsourcing Open Source Projects
http://www.devnewz.com/2008/05/07/north-by-south-outsourcing...North-by-South, is an open source company based in San Francisco and Sao Paulo (Brazil), is getting work from the Bay and organizing teams of open source programmers from Central & South America to do the jobs. North-by-South, officially started in July 2006 in Sao Paulo at a developers get-together organized for open source veterans, currently have about 30 programmers in its open source developers network and it is planning to expand to 100 developers by January 2009. I asked Ryan Bagueros, formerly head of engineering at Tagged, is the North-by-South founder, and co-founder of San Francisco Community Colo, how do they commercialize their services. We’re in touch with the marketplace through local innovations like Craigslist but mostly we get work through the extensive contacts of our San Francisco team. We have 4 people working in San Francisco on getting jobs, organizing them, etc and we’ve all been working in SF through the first dot-com bubble and now in the “web 2.0″ resurgence. So, we commercialize via word of mouth, web, local conferences, local internet gatherings, etc. It would be much more difficult to get work if we were not located in San Francisco and hadn’t been working here since the mid-90’s. Brazil and South America as a whole have an absolute advantage over USA in producing open source software, and as a matter of fact what is going on with the free software movement in Latin America is pretty peculiar. I wish Ryan and his latin American friends happy hacking! Comments
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North-by-South Outsourcing Open Source Projects
http://pimp.devnewz.com/2008/05/07/north-by-south-outsourcin...North-by-South, is an open source company based in San Francisco and Sao Paulo (Brazil), is getting work from the Bay and organizing teams of open source programmers from Central & South America to do the jobs. North-by-South, officially started in July 2006 in Sao Paulo at a developers get-together organized for open source veterans, currently have about 30 programmers in its open source developers network and it is planning to expand to 100 developers by January 2009. I asked Ryan Bagueros, formerly head of engineering at Tagged, is the North-by-South founder, and co-founder of San Francisco Community Colo, how do they commercialize their services. We’re in touch with the marketplace through local innovations like Craigslist but mostly we get work through the extensive contacts of our San Francisco team. We have 4 people working in San Francisco on getting jobs, organizing them, etc and we’ve all been working in SF through the first dot-com bubble and now in the “web 2.0″ resurgence. So, we commercialize via word of mouth, web, local conferences, local internet gatherings, etc. It would be much more difficult to get work if we were not located in San Francisco and hadn’t been working here since the mid-90’s. Brazil and South America as a whole have an absolute advantage over USA in producing open source software, and as a matter of fact what is going on with the free software movement in Latin America is pretty peculiar. I wish Ryan and his latin American friends happy hacking! Comments
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Open Source Projects Outsourcing: North-by-South
http://futbolquerido.com/open-source-projects-outsourcing-no...Jari (travelling-vegan) Escribio un articulo buenisimo hoy Aqui hay un pedazo del articulo North-by-South, is an open source company based in San Francisco and Sao Paulo (Brazil), is getting work from the Bay and organizing teams of open source programmers from Central & South America to do the jobs. … Lea el resto de este fabuloso articulo here
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