Bloomberg LP's Open Source Involvement & Progress on the Issue

Summary of This Week

• Thursday, November 7: Kevin Fleming spoke about Open Source at Bloomberg LP
  “Kevin Fleming works with various teams in Bloomberg to help produce and support its open source software, used by its customers and partners to integrate with the Bloomberg Professional service.”

  On November 7, Kevin Fleming came and told us about an open-source at the Bloomberg LP. I have always been excited to listen to the working stories from the people who currently work in the tech field. It gave me an clear insight out of the textbook knowledge. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the professor who made this happened.

• Monday, November 11: Continuation of the Linux Commands Tutorial

  On November 11, the class continued with the Linux tutorial. It helped me to expand my knowledge in Linux commands, which was very limited. It was helpful to understand the presentation by seeing the implementations directly through the terminal right after reading the presentation. There was also homework, which was personally welcome.

Bloomberg LP and Factset involvement is Open Source

• Bloomberg LP and FactSet are both finance companies and use the open-source programs. Both are Takers, as well as Givers who participate in open-source communities. FactSet, however, is passively encouraging employees to be involved in the open-source projects, while Bloomberg LB contrasts the positive aspects of having a team that contributes to open-source as their full-time works and even a separate event to encourage public participation. It can be checked simply by looking at the two companies’ GitHub repositories. FactSet’s last contribution was early this year and only for a few projects. However, Bloomberg LP are involved in many projects and they made a lot of contributions even ranked as top 5 contributors for some projects. I was wondering why the companies started to have an interested in open-source projects, and I was able to find the answer by looking through the various articles.

  ❝Bloomberg LP figured this out through a time-and-resource draining exercise readers are likely familiar with: building a data-science platform.

  The company built the platform roughly two years ago. Once it was ready for prime-time, the ingredients inside had gone stale. The technologies had advanced forward in open-source communities. The company vowed that this wouldn’t happen again.❞ - It’s not what IT used to be: Inside Bloomberg’s open-source IT shop by R.DANES

  The two companies’ visits showed me how important and practical the open source projects were.

Continue to chronicle your progress on the issue(s) you are working on.

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• Wikipedia Contributions
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• Read System76 introduces laptops with open source BIOS coreboot

  The article is announcing the release of two computers with open source firmware. These products solved with open-source community’s help the problem that the firmware was a closed source even if the operating system was open source. This is meaningful in that the large company has freed users from the end products created by randomly selecting what they needed and giving them the freedom to look and change computer from A to Z if needed. I think it would be a challenge to expand the community to make it easier for people who are not familiar with the code.

• Read Open Firmware

  I was wondering why it was important to open-source the firmware as I read the first article, but this article dealt with it and I felt like it scratched the itch. I am currently taking an operating system class and it makes the article easier to understand. In the first class, I heard that personal computers are vulnerable in terms of security, and I understood the article that open-source firmware was important to compensate for this issue. It sounds like a good way for users to fix bugs themselves. However, it is also easy to be hacked ironically because it is an open-source code. Isn’t it? I wonder if it doesn’t matter because the community is so active that it can be responsive immediately.