Vodafone’s open source community is live
Remember Vodafone is supposed to launch a new open source community portal called Betavine, at 31st January. Well they didn’t miss the schedule, now its live and kicking. The portal looks cool, and definitely will get some attention of bedroom based open source developers. The portal contain seven cool downloadable application for developers to get started.
As a Vodafone Betavine developer you will be able to:
- Create your own projects and host applications
- Blog about your projects
- Interact with your users and the Betavine community

Paul Walsh of Segala have more details on this. Stephen Wolak, Web Technologies Manager at Vodafone Group. Stephen has revealed to Paul how this portal will encourage students to get involved and become a strong workforce.
We are planning a set of student competitions in order to engage academia in the creation of new mobile and internet communications concepts and applications.
We will update the Portal with an open source site to encourage the development of open source software in this space.
Segala may provide ongoing updates about the Portal and evaluations on applications as they’re uploaded, as Segala is a definite contributor in the portal itself.
Disclaimer: I work as a Web application developer in Segala.