You know open source has arrived when the Boy Scouts of America begin promoting its principles and adoption and the LDS (Mormon) Church starts hiring open-source developers. This week, we get both and more in today’s edition of Random Sampler.

• The Boy Scouts of America have created a website focused on open source. It’s designed “as a place for scouting leaders to go when they need an application for their troop events or when they want to help other troops with their software projects.” It’s also intended to add some end-user usability to open-source development, which has long been lacking from many projects. Good effort.
• David Ascher, Mozilla’s email guru, went on the record to speak about the future of Mozilla’s email project, suggesting that he’s not interested in building an Outlook clone, but instead wants to bring “new energy” to email. Let’s hope he succeeds.
• Hyperic keeps getting asked by its customers, “Who can we hire to administer our Hyperic IT management systems?” Among those asking the question? CNET and the LDS church. Nice to see my blogging and tithing dollars going to good use.

… Source:The Open Road

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