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I have been absent from all things baseball for a few days, since shortly after things became their most exciting for my team. We had a death in the family, my cousin's husband. I do not relate this detail here for sympathy – it is very sad, but we've all been there and then some. But it is the context of the story. I had planned to spend Saturday at the Big A taking in the spectacle of the press conference. At the time I made my plans it seemed very important, indeed. But once we received that call, well, you understand. I spent the day at the funeral instead without a second thought for the press conference and then it was difficult to collect these thoughts into something cohesive, but I think I have finally hit on what I want to say:
Baseball is magic.
Seriously. Magic. I know, I know. I say "magic" and instantly you start thinking any number of fanciful thoughts having little to do with a bat and a ball. Santa Claus? Disney? Perhaps the darker magic of the Brothers Grimm, pre-Disnification? Well, Santa Claus inspires a lot of seasonal fun for the kiddies. Disney can imbue a child-like sense of wonder in most of us. And those brothers Grimm (being very grim) certainly send the imagination some deliciously scary places. But baseball? Well, it's the real deal. Magic plain and simple.
So much so in fact, that baseball is even more magical than the everyday OhMyGod!Wow!!DidThatJustHappen! magic that occurs on the field. Baseball is the thing my Dad and I can always banter about over email, no matter how stressful life has become. Ding, Dong the McCourt is Gone! Congratulations on the Pujols signing – this might put your guys over the top. As long as SciosciaMike can keep the pitchers away from beer and chicken, anything is possible, LOL. And suddenly we're both smiling.
Baseball is the universal ice-breaker for catching up at extended family gatherings. Oh, sure, you have a clue what your scores of cousins are up to these days via FaceBook. But start talking about trades, awards and an Oh My God! World Series and suddenly everyone is lively, chatting warmly and laughing together like they've never spent much time apart.
Baseball is the comfortable thing we could discuss before and after the funeral, calming and soothing minds in between tears and hugs and sharing memories with my cousin and her daughters.
Baseball is the one guaranteed safe thing my sister and I can always talk about no matter how on the outs we may be. Another new lineup for SciosciaMike, really? So is Loney actually going to hit the ball this time? I don't know, is Mathis? Touche.
See what I mean? Magic. The real deal.
Baseball is hardly life or death. It's a game. A bit of fun. A distraction. It isn't going to cure cancer or inspire world peace. And finally getting to savor that press conference off of the DVR didn't make everything all better, not the recent family sadness, nor any of the other stressors I've been dealing with. But it made me smile. It relaxed me. It lifted my mood and put me in a better frame of mind to face the week. If that's not magic, I don't know what is.


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Inside, the phone is fueled by a Qualcomm quad-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 Pro—the same processor featured in LG's Optimus G and Nexus 4 handsets—as well as 2GB of RAM, HTC's Sense 4+ UI, and Beats Audio, which packs in a 2.55v build-in headset amplifier and dedicated rear-speaker amp to help pump up the jams. The Droid DNA will also include a 2.1MP front-facing camera and an 8MP rear-facing one, and will feature wireless inductive charging via a charging pad.
The Droid DNA's display is the phone's main allure; it sports about 80 more pixels per inch than its market rivals. Whether the 1080p display will make much of a practical difference to consumers' eyes is another story entirely (pixel densities that high can display crisper images depending on what's being displayed), but we'll have more details for you as we get our hands on the device.
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Behaviour and movement changes: Rarely, this medication can cause behaviour and movement changes such as agitation, anxiety, confusion, depression, tremors, hallucinations, and other mood changes. If you experience any of the above, contact your doctor immediately.
Driving and operating heavy machinery: Ciprofloxacin may impair your ability to drive or operate machinery, especially when combined with alcohol. Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how this medication affects you.
Kidney function: Kidney disease or reduced kidney function may cause this medication to build up in the body, causing side effects, since ciprofloxacin is removed from the body primarily by the kidneys. If you have reduced kidney function or kidney disease, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
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Neuromuscular disorders: Ciprofloxacin may cause increased muscle weakness for people with myasthenia gravis (an autoimmune disorder that causes muscle weakness). If you have myasthenia gravis, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Other infections: Use of ciprofloxacin for a long time may lead to yeast infections.
QT prolongation: This medication can lengthen heartbeat as shown on an electrocardiogram test, also known as QT prolongation. Very rare cases of abnormal heartbeat have been reported in people while on ciprofloxacin, but these reports generally involved people who had conditions that predisposed them to abnormal heartbeat, or who have been taking other medications that can increase the risk of developing an abnormal heartbeat. If you have heart disease and abnormal heart rhythms, or are taking certain medications (e.g., verapamil, atazanavir), discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. If you develop heart palpitations (fast or irregular heartbeat) or experience fainting spells, stop taking ciprofloxacin and contact your doctor immediately.
Seizures: Rarely, seizures have been reported with this medication. If you have a history of epilepsy or medical conditions that increase the risk of seizures, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. If you have a seizure while taking this medication, stop taking it and get immediate medical attention.
Sucrose intolerance: The oral suspension form of this medication contains sucrose. People who have a hereditary condition that makes them intolerant to some sugars should not take the oral suspension.
Sun sensitivity: People who take ciprofloxacin are more likely to experience sunburn. Avoid exposure to excessive sunlight, including sunlamps and tanning beds. If you must spend time in the sun use sunblock with minimum SPF 15. Talk to your doctor if severe sun sensitivity occurs.
Tendinitis: Ciprofloxacin may increase the chance of tendon injury, which occurs more commonly for seniors who are also taking corticosteroid medications. If there is any new pain in the tendons, stop taking ciprofloxacin, avoid physical exercise, and consult your doctor.
Pregnancy: This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, stop taking it immediately and call your doctor.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking ciprofloxacin, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of this medication have not been established for children less than 18 years of age.
There may be an interaction between ciprofloxacin and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
About OWASP/TR
OWASP Turkey
Welcome to the Turkey chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Bunyamin Demir
Board Members: Dr. Emin Islam Tatli, Onur Karasalihoglu, Adil Hafa, Suleyman Petek, Fatih Ersinadim
Web Page: http://www.webguvenligi.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/owasptr
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
Chapter Brochure
Here you can view a brochure explaining in Turkish the action highlights of OWASP/Türkiye during the last one and a half year [obsolete for over two years].
Local News
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2012 will be held on 9 June, Saturday, in Marmara Üniversitesi Rektörlük Binası, Sultanahmet, İstanbul.
Web App Security Check List 2012 in Turkish.
Here are some of the projects produced by OWASP/Türkiye;
- DroidAlert by Bedirhan Urgun
A proactive approach on finding fake android applications on some of the biggest android stores. Just enter a term, and droidalert searches it for you in android stores.
- Chiasma by Bedirhan Urgun
Instead of having a structured penetration test report (docx, pdf, html v.b.) from 3rd parties, why not getting them produce a semi-structured report (xml) that is understood well. Chiasma is a Java desktop application producing XML vulnerability report.
- Web Uygulama Güvenliği Kontrol Listesi 2010- WebAppSec Checklist by OWASP-Turkey
A complete set of controls related to security of web applications.
- Piknik by Bedirhan Urgun
A compilation of a study on analyzing the possible behavior of a malicious developer...Inspired by Jeff Williams's Work
- FindDomains by Mesut Timur
FindDomains is a multithreaded search engine discovery tool that will be very useful for penetration testers dealing with discovering domain names/web sites/virtual hosts which are located on too many IP addresses.
- WGT E-Magazine by OWASP/TR and Onur Yilmaz
An online web security related magazine in Turkish with a 2 months per-issue period
- CTF contest by Onur Yilmaz
A CTF contest where researchers, professionals and hackers can show off their skills in an ethical way
- Jarvinen by Gökhan Alkan & Yusuf Çeri & Bedirhan Urgun
A simple yet effective web based audit log monitoring service for Modsecurity v2. It consists of two basic parts; a (bash) shell script that parses serial logs into the mysql database and a php web application.
- CAMMP by Gökhan Alkan
Aims to provide (bash) shell scripts in order to automatize the source code installations of apache (php and modsecurity) and mysql under chroot (for RedHat based systems for now).
- SecureImage by Mesut Timur & Bedirhan Urgun & Kerem Küsmezer
A Java,PHP and .NET based image validator that can be used for validating image files on upload systems (such as photo galleries,forums,etc ..) against the threats for XSS issues with IE and LFI attacks. Individual project pages; PSecureImage for PHP, JSecureImage for Java and NSecureImage for .NET
- SecureTomcat by Bedirhan Urgun & Deniz Çevik & Gökhan Alkan
A collection of three components; an audit documentation in Turkish, a basic remote vulnerability scanner and an audit shell script fully aligned with the audit documentation. All for auditing and testing Apache Tomcat partial J2EE container.
- WeBekci by Bünyamin Demir
WeBekci is a graphical user end for ModSecurity 2.x web application firewall.
- Web Security Turkish Translation Project by great volunteers & Bedirhan Urgun
Turkish translations of OWASP guides and other web application security related documents over 500 pages and counting
- WIVET by Bedirhan Urgun
A benchmarking project that aims to statistically analyze web link extractors. It provides a good sum of input vectors to any extractor and presents the results. Check out the live app here.
- SqliBench by Mesut Timur & Bedirhan Urgun
SQLiBENCH is a benchmarking project of automatic sql injectors related to dumping databases. Check out the live app here. The project is sponsored by OWASP SoC 08.
- MSALParser by Bedirhan Urgun
MSALParser (pronounced \mi-säl\) implements necessary parsers and model objects to represent a ModSecurity Single Audit Log, hence the name MSAL. MSALParser is a PHP RPC end that will get mlogc's calls and parses them into objects and eventually write to a persistent data store.
- ApacheLive by Bedirhan Urgun
ApacheLive (aka Haydar) project consists of a python script which was aimed to stress Apache web servers (httpd) using Keep-Alive parameters.
- AntiCsurf by Mesut Timur
For most of the languages and frameworks, developers have to implement their own functions to defend against CSRF. AntiCsrf is a basic and light library for defending against CSRF for PHP applications.
- FM-FSF by Ferruh Mavituna
FSF is a plug-in based freakin' simple fuzzer for fuzzing web applications and scraping data. It supports some basic stuff and missing some features however it has got some advanced RegEx capturing features for scraping data out of web applications.
- MSALMobile & MSALService by Bedirhan Urgun
MSALMobile, a basic windows mobile application and consuming MSALService, is a simple mobile ModSecurity log analyzer for Windows Mobile environment. See a video of MSALMobile in action on www.webguvenligi.org.
- XSS TestBed by Bedirhan Urgun
A playground for reflected xss test cases. The live project includes seven test cases ready to exploit. A legal and solid way to learn and apply xss skills. Moreover, a good way to test web application scanners on reflected xss testing...
- Web.config Security Analyzer by Mesut Timur
Web.config file holds settings about related ASP.NET web application. This project analyzes a given Web.config file for security vulnerabilities with its 30+ checks. It's a command line too for now and produces a neat html based report.
Çeviri projesine yardım etmek isteyen arkadaşlar, lütfen bunyamin veya bedirhan (proje lideri) ile iletişime geçiniz. Şu ana kadar yayınlanan çevirilere buradan ulaşabilirsiniz. You can find Turkish translations of OWASP and other web security related documents here.
Chapter Meeting, İstanbul, 27th Dec 2016
Chapter Meeting, İstanbul 2016
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2016, Conference
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2016
Application Security Day, Eskişehir 2015, Conference
Slides to download: Application Security Day, Eskişehir 2015
Chapter Meeting, İstanbul, 26th May 2014
Attendance at Cyber Security Conference, İstanbul, 13 May 2014
Cyber Security Conference 2014
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2013, Conference
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2013
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2012, Conference
Application Security Day, İstanbul 2012 will be held on 9 June, Saturday, in Marmara Üniversitesi Rektörlük Binası, Sultanahmet, İstanbul. The event aims to present an environment where key and popular application security topics will be discussed and shared. Hundreds of developers, business owners and security practitioners will be ready to increase local application security awareness. Join us!
OWASP/TR Presentation in Android Developer Days 2012 in ODTU Ankara
Bedirhan Urgun of OWASP/TR will give a presentation on "Developing Secure Android Days" on 22 May from 15:30-16:00 in Android Developer Days, 2012. The presentation will take place in ODTU, Ankara.
Location: ODTÜ Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi, Ankara
Date: 22 May 2012, Tuesday
Time: 15:30 – 16:00
OWASP/TR Presentation in ReadMee Internet Zirvesi, 2012
Seyfullah Kılıç will give a presentation titled "Web Güvenliği ve Korunma Yolları" on 07 April Saturday from 14:00-14:45 in ReadMee Internet Zirvesi, 2012. The presentation will take place in Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Eskişehir.
Location: Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Meşelik Kampüsü, Eskişehir
Date: 7 April 2012 Saturday
Time: 14:00 – 14:45
OWASP/TR Presentation in Özgür Yazılım ve Linux Günleri, 2012
Bünyamin Demir of OWASP/TR will give a presentation titled as " Güvenli Kod Geliştirme" and will hold a chapter meeting "OWASP Türkiye Chapter Meeting (Çalışma Toplantısı)" on 31 March Saturday from 10:00-13:00 in Özgür Yazılım ve Linux Günleri, 2012. The presentations will take place in İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Dolapdere Kampüsü, İstanbul.
Location: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Dolapdere Kampüsü, İstanbul
Date: 31 March 2012 Saturday
Time: 10:00 – 13:00
Location 1: 1. Salon Location 2: Toplantı Salonu
OWASP/TR Talk in Open Source Code Days in Yeditepe University
Bunyamin Demir talked about OWASP and OWASP/Turkey introduction. After intro, he did a presentation about "Secure Coding and Chaotic Life Cycle".
Location: Yeditepe University, 26 Agustos Yerlesimi, Salon 2
Date: 14 October 2011, Friday
Time: 15:00 – 15:45
OWASP/TR Introductory Meetings and Seminar @ Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, March 2010
Kubilay Onur Güngör will start with OWASP and OWASP/Turkey introduction. After intro, cyber security concept, web application security, social theories of criminal behaviors and many other topics will be discussed. So don't miss the events if you're around.
Location: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Beşiktaş Kampüsü, D-404 Salonu
Date: 10 Mart 2010 Çarşamba
Time: 18.30 – 19.30
OWASP/TR Introductory Meetings and Seminar @ Işık Üniversitesi, March 2010
Kubilay Onur Güngör will start with OWASP and OWASP/Turkey introduction. After intro, cyber security concept, web application security, social theories of criminal behaviors and many other topics will be discussed. So don't miss the events if you're around.
Location: Işık Üniversitesi, Şile Kampüsü Registration: http://bilisimgunleri.isikun.edu.tr Date: 8 Mart 2010 Pazartesi Time: 15.00 - 16.00
OWASP/TR Meeting in Turkcell Akademi with OISF Team, February 2010
With 7 OISF members we had our 23 February meeting. Brian talked about ModSecurity and Victor & Will talked about Suricata .
As always, check out the photos on flickr-webguvenligi!!
Thanks to our sponsor for this meeting GuvenlikEgitimleri.Com
OWASP/TR Seminar in İstanbul Kültür Universitesi, 29 December 2009
We'll be hosting a free seminar in İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, Ataköy Kampüsü, Önder Öztunalı Konferans Salonu. Topics will include "introduction to OWASP/TR", "siber security", "security best practices and standards". It will also include a demo on digital investigation.
Presenter: Kubilay Onur Güngör
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: İstanbul Kültür Üniersitesi, Ataköy Kampüsü, Önder Öztunalı Konferans Salonu
October 11, 2009 OWASP/TR on the Green Field
Teams formed by OWASP-Turkey mailing list members will play a soccer match on Sunday, 18:00 October the 11th. We'll seek our Messis, Zidanes, Kakas, Lampards, Chechs stemmed from the Anatolian land... National team may not be qualified for the 2010 World Championship, which is a shame, but we'll do better next time.
Artifacts - OWASP-Turkey Meeting in September 26, 2009
30 people gathered for the OWASP/TR meeting. Here's the agenda of the meeting. Moreover, Ibrahim Saruhan gave a presentation on his experiences writing a PoC Facebook botnet. Thanks everyone for participating.
See the pictures and listen to the DimDim recording.
September 26 Meeting
A regular meeting for anyone interested in web/software security. It will take place in Istanbul, Taksim at 14:00, on 26 September.
Artifacts - 06 May/13 May 2009 OWASP-TR Talks in Kocaeli & Gazi Universities
Here are the presentations given by Bünyamin Demir and Onur Yılmaz at "Information Techonology Days" in Kocaeli University and Gazi University, OWASP-TR & WebGoat Presentation and Basic Web App Security Presentation respectively.
Pictures are on flicker as always.
Web Application Security Talk in Gazi University, 13 May 2009
We'll be giving a talk in "Information Days" event at Gazi University about code/sql injection attack vectors and prevention techniques on 13th (Wednesday) of May 2009, between 10:30-11:20.
Reach out the details here
OWASP-TR Seminar in Kocaeli University, 06 May 2009
We'll be hosting a free seminar in Math. Department of Kocaeli University about OWASP and OWASP/Turkey including the basics of well known attack vectors and prevention techniques on 6th (Wednesday) of May 2009, starting from 15:30.
Reach out the details here
Artifacts - March 19 2009 OWASP-TR Talk in Sakarya University
Here are the presentations given by Bünyamin Demir and Gökhan Alkan at "Information Techonology Days" in Sakarya University, OWASP-TR & WebGoat Presentation and Jarvinen Presentation respectively. We'd like to thank Sakarya Universitesi Bilişim Kulubü for inviting us.
And never the least, here are the pictures taken during the day.
Talk in Information Techonology Days '09 in Sakarya University
We'll be giving two talks in "Information Techonology Days" about OWASP and OWASP/Turkey in Sakarya University on 19th of March 2009. The talk will include an introduction to OWASP, OWASP/Turkey as a community. Plus, Jarvinen, an OWASP/TR project, will be presented.
Artifacts - Fifth OWASP-Turkey Meeting in March 08, 2009
We had close to 35 people gathered. Here's the agenda of the meeting. Moreover, Fatih Emiral gave a presentation comparing three main Software Security models. Thanks everyone for participating.
For the photos take a look at here.
Fifth OWASP-Turkey Meeting in March 08, 2009
A regular meeting on web/software security related issues&techniques&news. The meeting will take place in Istanbul, Maltepe, beween 13:00-15:00, on 08th of March, Sunday. Here's the map for the meeting place If you want to attend the event, please send an e-mail to: urgunb at hotmail.com (Bedirhan Urgun)
Artifacts - Web Security Days Kocaeli December 2008
With over 50 attendees we had our 4th Web Security Days in Kocaeli University at Umuttepe Campus.
Presentations & SlideShows & Photos:
- Giris - Bedirhan Urgun
- WGT/OWASPTR - Bünyamin Demir
- WWW Introduction - Uğur Yıldız
- CSRF - Yusuf Çeri
- Graphic Attacks - Mesut Timur
- Secure Web Production Environments - Gökhan Alkan
- Pictures - Bedirhan & Bünyamin
- OWASP Top 10 Slide Show - Bedirhan Urgun
Next Event - 4th Web Security Days Kocaeli - December 23 (Turkey 2008)
This event will be the fourth of "Web Security Days" and will take place on 23rd of December 2008 in Kocaeli. The agenda of the event is here.
Artifacts - Fourth OWASP-Turkey Meeting in October 18, 2008
Here's the agenda of the meeting. We also had two small discussion and presentation of a simple demo overview of recent clickjacking vulnerability and sqlibench SoC 2008 OWASP project. Thanks everyone for participating.
Moreover, all of the OWASP sent books (~30)/pens(~15) were distributed freely!
For the photos take a look at here.
Fourth OWASP-Turkey Meeting in October 18, 2008
A catch up meeting on web/software security related issues&techniques&news. Moreover, OWASP sent goodies (to the most active chapters) will be distributed (This includes 27 OWASP books and 19 pens). It will take place in Istanbul, İstiklal Cad.Emir Nevruz Sok. No: 1/11 Galatasaray Beyoğlu beween 14:00-16:00, on 18th of October. If you want to attend the event, please send an e-mail to: urgunb at hotmail.com (Bedirhan Urgun)
Artifacts - June 21 2008 OWASP-TR Talk in "Free Software Conference"
Here is the presentation given by Mesut Timur and keynote submitted at "Free Software Conference" in TOBB University of Economics and Technology; OWASP-TR Presentation and Web Security and Free Software Keynote (in Turkish) respectively.
Talk in Free Software Conference in Ankara
We'll be giving a talk in "Free Software Conference" about OWASP and OWASP/Turkey in TOBB University of Economics and Technology on 21st (Saturday) of June 2008. The talk will include an introduction to OWASP, OWASP/Turkey, as well as web/application security projects achieved in Turkey.
The Day will start at 09:30 and our talk, which will be presented by Mesut Timur, will be between 15.00-15.30. You can skim the programme here.
Artifacts - April 19 2008 OWASP-TR Talk in Yildiz Technical University
Here are the presentations given by Bünyamin Demir and Yusuf Çeri at "Open Source Code Day" in Yildiz Technical University, OWASP-TR Presentation and SqlDemo Presentation respectively. We'd like to thank YTÜ Bilişim Kulubü for inviting us.
And never the least, here are the pictures taken during the day.
Talk in Open Source Code Day in Yildiz Technical University
We'll be giving a talk in "Open Source Code Day" about OWASP and OWASP/Turkey in Yildiz Technical University on 19th of April 2008. The talk will include an introduction to OWASP, OWASP/Turkey, web/application security community in Turkey, the 1st OWASP Day video by Jeff and a live application insecurity demo.
The Day will start at 09:30 and our talk will be the last one before the noon.
Artifacts - March 09 2008 Meeting
It was a nice Sunday in Istanbul and we had 16 people talking about SPoC 08, April OWASP Week and web application security in general. Here are the pictures taken during the meeting.
March 09 Meeting
A casual meeting for anyone interested in web/software security. It will take place in Istanbul, Kadikoy at 14:30, on 09 March. To chat and enjoy the Bosphorus!
Artifacts - Web Security Days Ankara & İzmir November 2007
Through a foggy, and therefore a hard flight, we've managed to realize Web Security Days 2 & 3 in Ankara and Izmir, respectively. Having a total of ~130 attendees (most of them in Izmir), we hope WSD to be traditional and become more qualitysome.
Presentations & Code & Photos:
- Giris - Bedirhan Urgun
- WGT Giris - Bünyamin Demir
- ULAK-CSIRT Giris - Enis Karaarslan
- Yazılım Geliştirme Sürecinde Güvenlik Testleri - Burak Dayıoğlu
- Kurumsal Web Güvenliği Yapısı - Enis Karaarslan
- Uygulamalarda Katmanlı Güvenlik Anlayışı - Tahsin Türköz
- PHP ve Güvenli Kodlama - Oğuzhan Yalçın
- Perl'de Guvenlik Modulu - Bünyamin Demir
- Perl'de Guvenlik Modulu - Kod - Bünyamin Demir
- Web 2.0 Savunma Dili: Javascript - Bedirhan Urgun
- Photos - Bedirhan & Bünyamin
Next Event - 3rd Web Security Days İzmir - November 26 (Turkey 2007)
This event will be the third of "Web Security Days" and will take place on 26th of November 2007 in İzmir. The agenda of the event is here.
Next Event - 2nd Web Security Days Ankara - November 24 (Turkey 2007)
This event will be the second of "Web Security Days" and will take place on 24th of November 2007 in Ankara. The agenda of the event is here.
Artifacts - OWASP DAY: on the topic of "Privacy in the 21st Century" - September 8 (Turkey 2007)
- Turkish Subtitle for Jeff's OWASP Day Intro movie (delete .ppt extension)
- OWASP2007_KamudaPrivacy.ppt
- Guvenli_Web_Uygulamalarinin_Gelistirilmesi.ppt
Discussion Answers:
Q1. What is the current state of Privacy on Web Application Security? Does it really matter? Is privacy what will drive radical changes in web application's security (ala PCI)?
A1. During the meeting an effort was made to clarify the meaning of privacy;
- what are the key items that builds up to "privacy"? - are we talking about the privacy of real people or should we also include the privacy of legal entities? - is there really a solid line (or even a vague line) between confidentiality and privacy?
We defined privacy as confidentiality of the data; be it of a real person or a legal entity. But the key part is that privacy is "the ability to control the flow of one's own data". And which brings another principle: "need to know". Privacy is directly related to an individual or an organization. Confidentiality, however, is directly related to "information"... Privacy is a "result" and confidentiality is a tenet or a security mechanism.
Enough of these convulsions; The answer to the first question was a definite "YES". Participants were all agreed that "privacy" plays and will play the most important role in web security and its future.
Q2. Application side: what the data owner should be doing to protect the user's privacy? Should there be a law that states how to protect this information? What can we do to improve it?
A2. Most of the participants agreed that a law is a necessity. But, maybe, more important thing is to raise the awareness of the customers. Here we also had a discussion on the current status of the law on privacy? There are mainly three documents on privacy in Turkish law;
* a directive on privacy in telecommunication, which happened to be inadequate (an assertion of a lawyer) * a draft law on privacy from Department of Justice, which is still in the process of approval * a recent (May 2007) law on siber crimes which happens to be similiar to the "Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council" on the data retention. This law, however, still needs a few directives, which are about to be published.
Q3. Client side: what is the client's perception of privacy? How can a user trust a site about his own data treatment? Is the client nowadays safeguarded about a possible loss of privacy?
A3. As a first step there should be an "agreement" presented to the user by the application side. This wouldn't be enough so there should be regular inspections (a third eye) on these services. About "is the client nowadays safeguarded about a possible loss of privacy?" question, the answer was a definite "NO". Especially with the banks. Yes, there are a few cases of trials where the courts dictated a bank to compansate the loss of the victim, however, mostly this is not the case. Even there is a domain serving, founded by the victims of online banking crimes in Turkey.
Q4. What should OWASP be focusing on?
A4. As a suggestion, OWASP may provide a "web security tips" page, which can include a searchable gui on small programming tips to avoid security holes in web applications.
And a great idea of producing a "FixmeBank" application to cover the developer side of the story, as opposed to tester/attacker side (via WebGoat or HacmeBank), was suggested by Taygun Alban.
Q5. What would OWASP spend it's grant money? (note that new OWASP members can allocate some or all of their membership fees to specific projects)
A5. Some suggestions; . Printed booklets of Guide and Testing Guide. . OWASP CD with shiny labels . I'm afraid to say but... t-shirts
Q6. Should OWASP organize such 'OWASP Weeks' every quarter?
A6. OWASP should organize these events every 6 months or so :)
Next Event - OWASP DAY: on the topic of "Privacy in the 21st Century" - September 8 (Turkey 2007)
As a part of the Global Security Week, OWASP Turkey chapter will be holding a humble meeting on Saturday, 8 September 2007. Less technical and time taking compared to last event (Web Security Days) we will be focusing on the current snapshot of the privacy related issues in the govermental/quasi-governmental and private institutions of Turkey.
Here's the "still in process" agenda:
- 14:00 - 14:10 Prelude. Introduction of OWASP DAY and OWASP Turkey projects
A small introduction to OWASP Day meeting and its goals, plus explanation of some of the lightweight projects of OWASP Turkey.
Bedirhan URGUN, Bunyamin DEMİR
- 14:20 - 14:50 Privacy in Governmental Insitutions - A Current State Analysis
Presentation will discuss the understanding of the privacy concept settled in governmental institutions and deliberate on general information security problems related with privacy issues.
Getting off with general privacy problems, in specific, information about the privacy issues related to web applications will be given. Moreover, concrete suggestions on providing a solid privacy in these institutions will be presented.
Hayrettin BAHŞİ Chief Researcher CC Lab-UEKAE TUBITAK
- 15:00 - 15:50 Secure Web Application Development
Korhan GÜRLER Chief Researcher PRO-G
- 15:00 - 16:00 A Panel on Privacy in Turkey
OWASP-Turkey Members
Last Event - 1st Web Security Days - July 14 (Turkey 2007)
First of the Web Security Days has been realized by Owasp-Turkey chapter on 14th of July 2007 in İstanbul. With a ~70 registered attendees, it was great to have a pack of web security oriented people for a five hours of mostly technical presentations.
Last Meetings
Sunday 6 May 2007
Time: 11:15-12:30
Address to the meeting are:
Middle East Technical University
Web Application Security with ModSecurity and OWASP


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Several regular visitors from Sepia Saturday have in the past commented on the length of some of my articles and asked how long it takes me to compile them. The short answer is How long's a piece of string? because some (e.g SS173) are off the cuff, while others are years in the making, gestating slowly either in my mind or as an accumulating collection of notes on the computer's hard disk. This week's contribution is one of the latter, a culmination of some four years of research, the publication of which has been triggered by a fortuitous find in the Tauranga Heritage Collection's store of cameras and photographic paraphernalia, and Alan's image prompt featuring coin-operated machines.
Photobooth self portraits by Andy Warhol, c. 1963
Gelatin silver prints, each 36 x 196 mm
Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
I've long had a fascination with the idea of photobooths, although by the time Andy Warhol turned them into tools of pop art and culture in the 1960s, they were well past their heyday. I don't remember ever seeing one, let alone having my portrait captured in one, during my youth in the 1960s and 1970s, but admittedly I was living in a former colonial backwater.
What made this style of portrait unique, at least until the advent of digital cameras and the ubiquitous camera phone, and no doubt the main attraction for the average joe (Hofman, 2011) as well as Warhol and like-minded celebrities, was that its composition was placed firmly in the hands of the subject.
For Warhol, the photo booth represented a quintessentially modern intersection of mass entertainment and private self-contemplation ... In these little curtained theaters, the sitter could adopt a succession of different roles ... Here, Warhol has adopted the surly, ultracool persona of movie stars such as Marlon Brando and James Dean, icons of the youth culture that he idolized.
Photobooth portraits of Surrealist figures
Photomontage by André Breton, 1928
He was not the first to use the photobooth in such a manner, the French surrealist André Breton having reputedly persuaded various contemporaries, including Salvador Dali, Max Ernest and Rene Magritte, into entering recently installed Photomaton booths on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the products of which he then compiled into the slightly disturbing photomontage above (Bloch, 2012).
Portrait of two unidentified men, one in soldier's uniform, c.1915-1916
Taken at Sidney Boultwood's Stickybacks studio, 66 St Peter's St, Derby
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
While I don't intend to recount the origins and early history of the photobooth here, I will recommend Mark Bloch's Behind the Curtain and David Simkin's Automatic Portrait Photographs, which do exactly that, in an authoritative, concise manner. For a more detailed account, try Näkki Goranin's recently published and well received book, American Photobooth. Although there were various attempts at mechanisation and automation of the photographic portraiture process from the late 1880s onwards, including Spiridione Grossi and Abraham Dudkin's Stickybacks in the United Kingdom (Simkin, 2013a & b), none appear to have met with significant commercial success until the mid-1920s.
Anatol Josepho with his Photomaton booth
Image © Modern Mechanics and courtesy of modernmechanix.com
Then in 1925 Anatol Josepho, a distant relative of Abraham Dudkin, patented the first reliable coin-operated automatic photobooth, the Photomaton. Advertised as producing a strip of eight cheap, good quality photographs in 8 minutes, the first Photomaton booths in New York were spectacularly successful, reputedly attracting "280,000 customers in the first 6 months." Two years later Josepho sold the Photomaton machines and patent rights to Henry Morgenthau for a staggering million dollars and future royalties (Kneen, 1928 & Bloch, 2012).
William Rabkin's 1937 Photomatic Patent Application No. 2,192,755
Images courtesy of Google Patents
Throughout the 1930s there were numerous copy-cat efforts and refinements, but the most significant development took place in 1934, after William Rabkin bought out both Photomaton and the International Mutoscope Reel Company. He improved the design of the photographic apparatus, transformed the exteriors with art deco styling and changed the name to the Photomatic. A new wave of photobooth popularity ensued, perhaps due to the chic styling available at a low cost during the peak of the Great Depression.
Original Photomatic photo booth, Machine No. DP 3
Image © and courtesy of The Powerhouse Museum
Photomatic booths were manufactured in enormous numbers, in almost any colour you could think of, and shipped to all corners of the world. The remarkably intact apparatus in the image above from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, apparently one of the few examples that have survived, was probably used in Queensland around 1935 to 1938.
Instruction plate from a Photomatic photo booth, c.1935-1940
Image © and courtesy of Tauranga Heritage Collection
This rather grimy Photomatic booth instruction plate from the Tauranga Heritage Collection (above, Machine No. DP 220) is all that's left of a seemingly identical apparatus, suggesting that the machines may also have been exported to and used within New Zealand. Wellington's Evening Post carried an advertisement in January 1940 (below) calling for the services of a "smart young girl" to operate a Photomatic machine at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.
Advertisement, Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 23 January 1940
Portrait of unidentified woman, 14 October 1938
Silver gelatin print in crimped metal frame with printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth at Detroit Bus Station
The feature differentiating Photomatic portraits from those produced by competitors was that the customer received a print "already framed." Constructed of a thin strip of sheet metal, the frame was crimped around the silver gelatin print and a printed card backing. Early Photomatic frames were all silver in colour and the backing designs simple, allowing for a date and place taken to be written by the customer. The card itself followed the art deco theme, and was usually a shiny silver colour.
Postcard of Greyhound Bus Terminal, Detroit, Michigan
Image © and courtesy of Donald Coffin's Greyhound Bus Memories
The Photomatic booth where the 1938 portrait above of a woman in her smart hat and furs was taken would have matched the sleek lines of the Greyhound Detroit Bus Terminal exterior perfectly.
Portrait of unidentified woman, undated
Silver gelatin print in crimped metal frame with printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth on the NYNHH Railroad
Image © Marc Frattasio and courtesy of the New Haven RR H&T Assn
Photobooth concessions were operating in public places country-wide, and the backing card stock soon carried the names of the locations or concessions. The portrait of the woman above was probably taken by Photomatic booth located on a station platform or in a waiting room similar to that shown at Boston's South Station, below.
Photomatic booth in waiting room, South Station, Boston
Image © Marc Frattasio and courtesy of The New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, Inc.
Portrait of unidentified man, 6 November 1938
Silver gelatin print in crimped metal frame with printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth at Plankinton Arcade, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This taciturn young man and his somewhat oversized cap paused long enough in the Photomatic booth in the busy Plankinton Arcade to record his passing through in the autumn of 1938. Wherever there were throngs of people, the International Mutoscope Reel Co. installed their Photomatic booths.
Portrait of unidentified soldier, 13 January 1942
Silver gelatin print in crimped metal frame with printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in Washington, D.C.
Image © Brian and courtesy of Photobooth.net
A little over three years later, and the booths were filled with very different looking subjects. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, the United States was at war and tens of thousands of uniformed servicemen all wanted a photo before they shipped out. Five weeks after the Declaration of War, this soldier was probably both excited and nervous when he posed with a cupid-style caricature cut-out in Washington D.C. in January 1942.
Portrait of unidentified US Marine, 25 February 1944
Silver gelatin print with magenta card frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in Newark, New Jersey
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
In 1944 and 1945, possibly due to shortages of metal, Photomatic portraits were produced with thick coloured satin-finish card "Photoframes." This example from early 1944 shows a marine home on furlough in Newark, New Jersey.
Portrait of unidentified woman, September 1945
Silver gelatin print with blue card frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in New York City
These wartime issues had no special place on the back for the place and date to be filled, but some helpful subjects wrote them anyway. This happy bespectacled woman in a striped blouse was presumably caught up in the euphoria that swept New York after the Japanese surrender on 14 August:
In the summer of 1945, New York was a city riding a wave of triumph ... It was a time of unbridled self-confidence. The city had contributed 850,000 servicemen to the war effort. The war had transformed New York into the capital of the world.
(Roberts, 1995)
Portrait of unidentified woman, 8 June 1947
Silver gelatin print with red metal frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in New York
After the war ended, Photomatic reintroduced metal frames, and for a couple of years they were enamelled in a variety of colours, including white, red, pale blue, lime green and orange. However, the frame itself had a slightly different profile, as shown in a modified patent application filed by Rabkin in 1948 (below), and included a fold-out stand.
William Rabkin's 1948 Photomatic Patent Application No. 2,647,834
Image courtesy of Google Patents
Portrait of unidentified US soldier, undated
Silver gelatin print with silver metal frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in unidentified location
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
Eventually the enamelling was dispensed with, and the standard issue frames returned to either plain silver or, more rarely, gold. I suspect this young man's uniform is not military (Correction: this is a US Army cap badge, thanks Mike), but he was proud of it and it's sad that he didn't take the time to record a message on the back. It is probably from the late 1950s.
Portrait of two unidentified women, 13 July 1953
Silver gelatin print with silver metal frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in unknown location
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
This image of two young women was taken in July 1953 and bears the caption, "Dig this". Comparing their clothing and hairstyles with an old Life magazine from that date, it seems likely that they'd been out shopping or to the hair stylist. They do seem rather pleased with themselves.
Portrait of Beth's mother, 17 July 1945
Silver gelatin print with silver metal frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth at Grand Central Station, New York City
Image © and courtesy of musicmuse_ca & Flickr
It is a sad reality that many of the subjects of such found photos and the places where they were taken will never be identified, let alone the context or situation be deduced. However, browsing the internet for examples of Photomatics, one soon appreciates that many of them are still in situ, so to speak, and form an important part of family history. This image on musicmuse_ca's Flickr photostream shows her mother on her wedding day.
This is the shot my mother took on the day she got married to her first husband Fred. It was taken on a photomatic photo machine in Grand Central train station in NYC.These words and further background to the story (Truth, Lies and Betrayal 9/1939) make it a material symbol, despite its inauspicious beginnings in the hustle and bustle of New York's Grand Central Station.
He got a job working for the Canadian Press in NYC. He had been dating my mother since 1939, and they had virtually lived together for several years in Toronto. He asked her to marry him and they took the train from Toronto to NYC.
The marriage to Fred did not last more than 5 years, but my mother's love affair with NYC lasted from 1945 until her death in Manhattan in January of 2003.
Portrait of unidentified woman, undated
Silver gelatin print with red plastic frame & printed card backing
Taken by Photomatic booth in unknown location
By the late 1950s, the design of the frame had changed again, the crimped metal being replaced by much more the much more versatile, rust-proof and cheaper ubiquitous plastic. The characteristic art deco styling of the Photomatic brand was gone forever.
Unidentified couple, Long Beach Pier, Los Angeles, California, undated
Snapshot by unidentified photographer
The Photomatic was also facing stiff competition from rivals. Bloch (2012) suggests that it was outclassed by the superior technological, marketing and distribution techniques of companies such as Auto-Photo Co. One should not ignore the fact that more and more people owned their own cameras. This snapshot, probably from the mid- to late 1950s, shows a sailor and his sweetheart, the latter with a camera in a leather case around her shoulder. They are posing in front of a Penny Arcade at Long Beach Pier, an unoccupied photobooth clearly visible in the background.
Photomatic photobooth, candy and cigarette machines, Kansas, 1959
Image © and courtesy of These Americans Archive
I get the impression that Photomatic booths, despite attempts at rebranding and restyling, were slowly being relegated to the amusement arcades and drugstores where their predecessors had originated a quarter of a century earlier. This 1959 booth, perched between the candy and cigarette machines, boasts a brand new look and a comely invitation to "Take your photo ... now!" but I detect a whisper of hesitation. Perhaps she, like Jeannette below, is waiting for the right man to come along.
"Jeanette" and Elvis Presley, undated
Photobooth portrait at unidentified location
Photobooth.net, by Brian and Tim
International Mutoscope Reel Company, from Wikipedia.
The History & Progression of the Photo Booth, from Green Cheeze's Blog.
Andy Warhol, lyrics by David Bowie, 1971
Photographic booths, 1930-1940, from The Powerhouse Museum.
Anon (1934) Business & Finance: Pin Game, 24 December 1934, TIME Magazine.
Anon (1935) Science: Photomatic, Monday, 4 February 1935, TIME Magazine.
Anon (2000) "Andy Warhol: Photo Booth Self-Portrait (1996.63a,b)," in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. (October 2006)
Anon (2004) The "PhotoMatic" Photo Machines, New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, Inc.
Anon (2013) Say 'cheese in the photobooth, from Diario de Una Pin Up Frustrada, 24 January 2013.
Bloch, Mark (2012) Behind the Curtain: A History of the Photobooth.
Goranin, Näkki (2008) The history of the photobooth, 7 March 2008, The Telegraph, Extract from American Photobooth by Näkki Goranin, publ. by W.W. Norton & Company.
Griffiths, Katherine (2011-2013) - Photobooth Journal: A life in a photobooth.
Hofman, Juli (2011) Photomatic Pics of my Grandpa: D*** It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta, posted 5 Dec 2011 on The Williamson Vampires blog.
Kneen, Orville H. (1928) Penniless Inventor Gets Million for Photo Machine, in Modern Mechanics and Inventions, November 1928.
Linderman, Jim (2011) Mat Mugs! The Wonderful Photomatic Photograph Machine and Mutoscope. William Rabkin Fast Talking Genius of the Photomatic Machine and the Claw, posted in April 2011 on the Dull Tool Dim Bulb blog.
Roberts, Sam (1994) NEW YORK 1945; The War Was Ending. Times Square Exploded. Change Was Coming. in The New York Times, 30 July 1995.
Simkin, David (2013a) Automatic Portrait Photographs: The Sticky Backs Studio, Spiridione Grossi, Abraham Dudkin, Anatol Josepho and the Photomaton, on Sussex PhotoHistory.
Simkin, David (2013b) Sidney Boultwood and his Stickybacks Studios, on Sussex PhotoHistory.


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There are many useful open-source technologies out there. With all of this competition, it's critical to make it clear why your particular open-source offering should be considered, and for which needs. That's the reality any builder of an open-source community needs to adopt right from the start: While participation by developers in an active, viable open-source community will undoubtedly improve their projects, as well as your product's evolution, getting a community up and running can be a challenge.
At Actuate, we've managed to establish value for developers in our open-source BIRT community, and in our commercial products built on BIRT. Today, our community is 3.5-million BIRT developers strong. So here are our thoughts on how to build your own.
What is the right way to start this process?
First, from a business model standpoint, the kind of license you select for your open-source project is a big factor. There are different types of open-source licenses some are very permissive and some are very restrictive, and developers pay a lot of attention to this aspect now. There is also a lot of knowledge out there on what each license exposes you to. See, for example:
Second, simply because it is an open-source project doesn't mean that you can expect developers to simply flock to it. The project must provide clear value to a developer. This means being very explicit about your software's design, the APIs, the openness, and the applicability of your software as it relates to the developers' needs. Not only that, but you must also provide concise, easy-to-follow documentation on how to get started. If these paramount requirements aren't met, the grass on your competitor's side of the fence starts to look greener and greener and developers will move on.
The third element you need to get right is the structure and organization of your proposed open-source community. To build up the community, you need to establish trust. The trust aspect comes from transparency and clarity about what's offered free and what's not. Also, make sure everyone knows who is behind the project. This not only helps with the trust factor, but also ties you to the open-source product, letting developers know where they need to go when they want more (for example, your commercial product line). Clearly detailing the process for committers and how to participate is also a must. Also, signpost how the development, quality assurance, and the release process is working, clearly delineating the various milestones and the roadmap.
"Open source" generally means freely acquired software. Of course, that doesn't mean it's cost-free to the developer. The fact that they are engaging means that they are investing time which, as we all know, equals money. So, they need to be able to find exactly what they need to know quickly and easily across all aspects of your toolset and your open-source project.
If you think about it, that is why open-source projects organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse have been so successful. Anyone who gets involved in these projects knows exactly how the structure works, what the governance process is, and (if they are going to spend any time participating in these projects at any level) how their time is going to be utilized.
Now it's started build it out
Next, start thinking about how to get developers excited and involved. Having developers on board as your evangelists is a big element of that effort. A good open-source community evangelist is someone who understands how developers work, is passionate about the open-source toolset (not just the commercial product), believes in the project, and is constantly spreading the word through meetups, blogging, helping people on forums, presenting at tradeshows, and so on.
It perhaps goes without saying that, in order to support the evangelists and the growing number of community members, you need a great online resource. Your website must be able to explain to developers what this project can do for them, quickly, cleanly, and in the "language" of the developer. Because developers also like to get their hands dirty, make it easy to get the core code for them to play with in addition to the IDE and the APIs. Meanwhile, any learning resources you have tutorials or examples also need to be readily available.
A great example of success with this is Drupal. Part of the reason it has been one of the most successful open-source projects is that people have built so many online resources and code examples so that as soon as anyone starts a Drupal build, they don't have to recreate the whole thing from scratch because the community contributes so much.
Once developers have started to use your open-source software, you should expect that community members will run into the same sort of issues that anyone runs into with software: bugs and undocumented features. When this happens, they will likely want some help. The best source will be the community itself other developers. Over time, if your project is successful, more-experienced community members will be ready to answer questions for newcomers. However, to get there, you need to nurture the fledgling community with experienced internal people of your own. This is very important. The community help will come if you get it started. If you simply let it ride, without initial and continuing internal support, your community is likely to flop. Besides, you'll always want to have internal folks in the community surrounding your project, as that's how you learn how your project is being used, allowing you to be proactive in the direction you head.
Beware the "newer is better" syndrome
As long as your project is new, there is a fit in the market, and you've provided a clear explanation of the benefits, you will have lots of people interested in learning and talking about your technology. However, once the newness wears off, interest is likely to wane. In technology, as new things come along, naturally, interest will shift and everybody will start pursuing the next latest-and-greatest technologies. So how do you continue to stay relevant?
We've found that a great method to help a project avoid becoming yesterday's news is to collaborate with other open-source developer communities. For example, the Hadoop following (through Cloudera, Hortonworks, and others) is growing rapidly. Seek out participation in those communities through meetups or working with their community managers so you can have shared events, cross-postings, and some interesting use cases that you can share. You are effectively piggy-backing on their momentum; and why not? Chances are both groups can only benefit. Your project gets the continued exposure to new eyes, while theirs gains access to your established community. By the way, this doesn't just apply to new technology any other relevant technologies that help expand your ecosystem are worth looking at.
In our case, we've been going to Java meetups, inviting partners to our meetups (Cloudera, for instance), and being invited to other meetups. We really encourage you to continue to keep expanding your community by reaching out to others. This is a social world even for the entrenched developer.
The second option to prevent decline in engagement with developers is to present new compelling use cases with your technology. The evangelist team should be responsible for idea generation here, constantly looking at new spaces and technologies whether it is Raspberry Pi, data sensors, or new tools for data. For example, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic right now, so we've partnered with EuroTech and Eclipse to showcase the use of BIRT in an IoT context. These use cases can be blogged, presented, or posted on iClips and Google as videos.
Beyond evangelism: Advocates, gamification, and hackathons
Advocacy is another tool that should be in your arsenal. We have a select list of people invited to an advocacy club: The idea is to provide incentive for contributions with the goal of making the community more vibrant whether it is doing a product review or writing a blog or giving feedback on the open-source project or the commercial product trials. Advocates, when you have really good ones, are just a single Tweet or a blog post away from getting your community major attention. These are developers who will speak of the value they find in the technology, which is very important and credible. Look for them and look after them!
A flip-side to this is what we call gamification finding fun ways to motivate developers to participate in your community. In our gamification efforts, we keep the interest alive through challenges and rewards; so if you answer a question or submit some code examples, you can earn digital badges that we publicize on a digital leader board. It really works, and developers get very competitive! We have sponsored hackathons as well. These are a great way to build support around your community.
The best way to look at all of this is contained in one word: experimentation. Nothing you can do today is guaranteed to work six months from now, so you just have to keep on working with the market and seeing what really motivates and speaks to developers.
The importance of support for the concept
Most open-source projects have some sort of a commercial entity either behind them or very closely affiliated with them. From the beginning, your executive sponsor needs to have very clear objectives as to how the community is going to affect its business. The community manager's job is to help the executive sponsor understand this plan, and its value, and at the same time ensure your community serves the needs of your developers.
One benefit, that you may not have thought about in any great detail, is how your now-successful open-source community can help act as a kind of free-form research and development lab. An actively engaged community provides on-going feedback that can help you and your developer team improve features and other aspects of your software.
At Actuate, a participating developer wrote a MongoDB extension before we'd even seen the need for one. That's a key aspect of a healthy open-source community it can help you understand user requirements and drive the product in the direction the market needs.
Finally, an active open-source community enables the adoption of your products. You have people talking about the work, showing examples of success, providing peer-to-peer support, all of which allows new developers to come on-board and be up and running successfully and quickly.
It's worked for us with BIRT and there's no reason it can't work for you. Good luck!
|Four Ways to Make Your Open-Source Community Fly
1: Be very clear in your instructions within your forum responses. Developers are often spread thin across many projects or rarely focus on a single technology; so don't assume they know the basics of your technology. Your software isn't necessarily the biggest thing in their world.
2: Respond quickly to their questions, like with needing clear instructions to get started with your toolset. A lack of response is a brick wall in their application development process and can force them to move on to a new technology even if it's not until the next application. Also, developers talk to other developers, and you want them saying positive things about their experiences with you.
3: Don't push marketing lingo and commercial products on them. They'll move to the next project in the blink of an eye. Developers are self-serve consumers. They'll come to you when they need your technology.
4: Developers like to feel like recognized for their craft. Reward them with prizes, thanks, and recognition on the site. Make developers feel important to your community and they'll keep coming back.
Michael Williams is a committer on the BIRT Project, and he is also BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and business analytics software specialist Actuate Corporation, which sponsors open-source BIRT and offers commercial BIRT-based software to a community of more than 3.5 million BIRT developers around the world. Michael is on Twitter as @mwilliams_birt.


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The 2012 edition of the Cultural Heritage Day of Chile will be celebrated in the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention. In order to contribute to the worldwide celebrations of the anniversary, this year's edition focuses specifically on the relation between heritage and development, including the role of local communities in heritage preservation.
This festivity has been celebrated every last Sunday of May since the year 1999, with the objective to organize a festive day reflecting on the values, the role and the significance of Chilean cultural heritage. Activities, taking place all around the country, include opening of monuments to public, seminars and educational activities to sensitize the general public to preservation and sustainable management of cultural heritage in Chile.
Every year, this celebration counts on the participation of hundreds of volunteers. This year, the number will be extended by promoting local communities active participation through a "campaign for the common good" forming teams of young volunteers who will clean four national monuments in Santiago.
Furthermore, an expert seminar with the theme "Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development" will take place as part of the Cultural Heritage Day. Two panel discussions will be dedicated to the role of local communities in the conservation of archeological and paleontological heritage and their role in the social development of urban heritage areas.
More information on www.monumentos.cl


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