This week sees the inimitable ITFreely crew press-gang Keith into joining in the podcasting recording madness. Keith runs the IT side of the Forum in Waterford, something he has shifted largely over to using open source software. This seems like a great opportunity to talk about open source software and some of the cost savings that can be achieved by businesses by its use.

Segue to an investigation of Voice over IP (VoIP) as implemented in HEAnet and some of the advantages it can bring over using more expensive, proprietary solutions. Does it solve all things telecomms related? Certainly not, but there’s a lot it can do.

We also mention resources businesses and individuals can use when working with Open Source, The System Administrators’ Guild of Ireland and the Irish Linux Users’ Group.

Dave also interviews Patrick Collison (homepage, twitter, Facebook) and has a chat about Tech start-ups in Ireland (based on his Irish Times article) and iPhone App School (homepage, twitter).

The full interview (MP3) is available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 3.0) license.

But first, check out this weeks astounding episode of IT Freely, now with even more technical talking type content: