Will Content Management Be Most Affected By Open Source?
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| It's pretty clear that the social Web is driving the demand for open source
| frameworks and with the mindset of "social publishing" continuing to be on
| Web agendas everywhere, look for community-led expansion and innovation to
| accelerate.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/will_content_ma.html
UNICEF wiki uses open source, SMS to connect kids
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| In an emerging effort called UNIWIKI, UNICEF is now using technologies
| ranging from open source software to SMS text messaging for helping young
| people from throughout the world to communicate via international social
| networking sites.
|
| [...]
|
| For the Iraqi project, open source developers in Cairo built an Arab-language
| Web site for UNICEF.
|
| Meanwhile, in Our Stories -- an effort conducted by UNICEF in conjunction
| with Google and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) -- UNICEF is collecting and
| storing five million stories from youth around the world. The stories, which
| are being recorded in audio on location, are organized into topic areas.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/UNICEF_wiki_uses_open_source_SMS_to_connect_kids/1206568769
Website for blind and vision impaired developed with open source CMS
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| Energetica, which specialises in solutions for the not-for-profit sector,
| developed the website by modifying the open source content management system
| Joomla! - the same CMS used by iTWire.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17303/53/
Publisher turns to open source for speedy site
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| Scholastic UK, the subsidiary of the world’s largest children’s book
| publisher, has used open-source development tools to speed up the creation of
| its web site.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2212833/publisher-turns-open-source-3910626
Related:
How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah!
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need
| more -- much more.
|
| [...]
|
| Second, the entire in industry must co-operate and be involved. We need
| everyone working on this problem. The best minds in high performance
| computing have been at it for quite a while and it is time to turn up the
| volume. Fantasies of telling your R&D guys to get on it are not enough.
| Trying to corral your Intellectual Property (IP) with trade secrets and
| patents is wishful thinking. The rocket scientists (and plenty of other smart
| people) have been working on this issue for a long time. You don't have the
| time to waste trying to expand your IP fiefdom. Instead start thinking about
| what happens when the next generation of products is of absolutely no
| interest to your customers.
|
| Third we need to respond quickly. There is no time for IP agreements,
| posturing, and NIH ego trips (Not Invented Here). We need leaders to
| recognize the scope and magnitude of this challenge and act. Before too long,
| it will not be unreasonable to have four or even eight cores in a desktop. A
| workstation or server may have double this amount. It would sure be nice if
| my software could effectively use all these cores.
|
| [...]
|
| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and
| everyone can cooperate openly
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379
3 open source e-Government projects merge and launch PloneGov.org
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| Open source experts from the public sector, community and SME's
| participated in the first Plone e-government international workshop.
|
| [...]
|
| Attendants, equally representing the public sector, Plone community
| and SME's, came from several countries : Belgium, France,
| Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands and Luxemburg.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/6/8/21231
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