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Is open source really "open" to women?

29-08
Irenie White
During a recent STEMNET event, 'career speed-dating' at my former stomping ground, Rugby High School for Girls, I was crushed by the lack of enthusiasm for IT. It's a grammar school boasting a strong emphasis on scientific disciplines, yet despite acknowledging that technology is relevant to today'...

Odoo Open Days 2014

18-06
Phillip Warwick
Odoo: The Future of Business Management Systems Odoo started its days as TinyERP, a system built on the same ideals as the subsequently named OpenERP and Odoo. An ideal of Open Source software providing business system solutions in a flexible and maintainable way. Its strength is drawn from the...

Debian Squeeze LTS now available

09-06
Irenie White
Original blog post by Evgeni Golov appeared on www.credativ.de on 26 May 2014 The Debian LTS project has been progressing quickly . The Debian archive is already taking uploads for the new suite and there are mailing lists for announcements and communications. Regular support for Debian Squeeze...

Odoo Open Days 2014

03-06
Phillip Warwick
Tomorrow (4th June), I shall be attending what will now be the first Odoo Open Day, in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. Odoo (formally OpenERP) is one of the main projects credativ are involved in the UK, implementing, hosting, and supporting numerous instances to meet the varying business needs of our...

[Howto] Zarafa mail extraction

06-02
Damian Lukowski
Mail administrators which use spamassassin and its Bayesian filter need to train the classifier on a regular basis. Spamassassin's sa-learn utility needs to process full RFC-822 emails including mail headers and the the mail body. The following howto describes a method of how full emails can be...

Case Study: Munich City Council

08-01
Irenie White
In the "Case Study" category we present recent customer projects. This case study focuses on one of our most prolific public sector projects to date, the administration of the Bavarian Capital, the City of Munich. credativ GmbH have been providing support for the LiMux-Project of Munich's city...

Software Freedom Day 2012!

28-09
Irenie White
credativ UK once again celebrated Software Freedom Day this month. Although it was one of just 4 registered events taking place in the UK, Software Freedom Day is a global event. A lot of time and preparation went in to making sure it was as successful as last year, and it paid off. Around a...

Royalty Free Open Standards Consultation

24-04
Irenie White
The UK government is currently consulting on the use of Open Standards and Open Source as an alternative for proprietary software. The proposed policy is being attacked by the large corporations who dominate the market of UK public sector IT and want to ensure government policy does not undermine...

Open Source Drives Software Innovation

11-04
Irenie White
credativ is one of the partners carrying out the 2012 Future of Open Source Survey The goal is to reach 1,000 respondents, so if you're passionate about Open Source, please fill it in. Your help is extremely important to the success of this year's survey. The following blog post was originally...

Compendium of Spotify on Linux Tips

02-01
Joe Conway
Getting Spotify to work nicely on Linux Note: the Linux Spotify client will only work with a premium Spotify account . I spoke at the NYC PostgreSQL Users' Group meeting in December, and while there someone mentioned that Spotify is a great music service (and that they are using PostgreSQL!). So I...