Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Open source electric cars?
Is it possible to use open source principles into building electric cars? It seems like it is. Electric Cars - Now! movement (based in Finland) is running a project which allows you to convert your everyday fuel powered car into Zero Emission Vehicle. All the software, blueprints and assembly instructions are provided as open source, free for everybody to use.
They currently have a working prototype called eCorolla (that I happened to see when the false fire alarm drove me to the yard of Innopoli earlier today) based on Toyota Corolla that can drive up to 150 km with full battery. The price for conversion kit is about 20 000 EUR. The lithium batteries are currently the most expensive piece. The price of batteries is expected to drop when the production lines of battery producers ramp up with the demand in future.
They currently have a working prototype called eCorolla (that I happened to see when the false fire alarm drove me to the yard of Innopoli earlier today) based on Toyota Corolla that can drive up to 150 km with full battery. The price for conversion kit is about 20 000 EUR. The lithium batteries are currently the most expensive piece. The price of batteries is expected to drop when the production lines of battery producers ramp up with the demand in future.
Labels: open source
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
54% of organizations in Finland use OSS
According to TNS Gallup (on behalf of Sun) 54% of organizations in Finland use Open Source Software. OSS penetration is high in all of the the Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark) with average of 46%.
Sun believes that the increased demand for open source in general is driven largely by the global economic downturn. I am pretty sure the trend of OSS adoption will keep going north even when the economical situation gets better.
Marc Krellenstein has written a nice post about the myths of open source software that might help you to decide your policy about using Open Source (Search) Software in your organization.
Sun believes that the increased demand for open source in general is driven largely by the global economic downturn. I am pretty sure the trend of OSS adoption will keep going north even when the economical situation gets better.
Marc Krellenstein has written a nice post about the myths of open source software that might help you to decide your policy about using Open Source (Search) Software in your organization.
Labels: open source
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Nutch training at ApacheCon EU 2008
As some of you might have noticed I am prepared to give a half day training about Apache Nutch at ApacheCon EU 2008.
However there are still too many seats available and I need Your help to get things going. So if You are interested about Nutch internals and have Tuesday, Apr 08 open in your calendar please go ahead and book a seat for You at ApacheCon web site !
Don't forget that there is also a huge amount of other interesting sessions and trainings during the week, see the schedule for more info.
However there are still too many seats available and I need Your help to get things going. So if You are interested about Nutch internals and have Tuesday, Apr 08 open in your calendar please go ahead and book a seat for You at ApacheCon web site !
Don't forget that there is also a huge amount of other interesting sessions and trainings during the week, see the schedule for more info.
Labels: java, mapreduce, nutch, open source
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Website up
I got an extra burst of energy yesterday and set up my Company website. The nice simple layout (also deployed to this blog) is designed by Andreas Viklund, nice work man!
Another part of credits goes to the creators of MeshCMS which powers the site. It was really easy to set up, no fighting with databases and stuff, just deploy the war and start writing content - another excellent example of how usable open source software is getting these days.
Regarding the company - everything is still at very early stages and I am working on it part time only (or should I say when there's demand ;). I'll get back to this when there's someting to report.
Another part of credits goes to the creators of MeshCMS which powers the site. It was really easy to set up, no fighting with databases and stuff, just deploy the war and start writing content - another excellent example of how usable open source software is getting these days.
Regarding the company - everything is still at very early stages and I am working on it part time only (or should I say when there's demand ;). I'll get back to this when there's someting to report.
Labels: java, open source
