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Exciting Open Source developments in Thailand
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| The Blender Foundation just posted news of
| two e-books issued by the government of
| Thailand, one covering the 3d content
| creation suite Blender and one covering the
| GNU Image Manipulation Program, aka GIMP. I
| have a special affection for both of these
| programs, for several reasons.
|
| [...]
|
| GIMP proved that open source is not limited
| to uber-geeks and embedded systems. But the
| skeptics continued, revising their theory
| to say that "well, GIMP is just 2D, and
| that's really not very hard. You'll never
| see a complete open source 3D suite
| offering fully professional capabilities."
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http://opensource.org/node/483
Nationâs First Open Source Election Software Released
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| A group working to produce an open and
| transparent voting system to replace
| current proprietary systems has published
| its first batches of code for public
| review.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/open-source
Mentioned earlier by someone else was another win:
White House website goes open source
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| Although the website looks the same,
| apparently the back-end is totally
| different and the existence of a large open
| source software community developing and
| supporting the code makes it more secure.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1559696/white-house-website-goes-source
Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal
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| Yesterday, the new media team at the White
| House announced via the Associated Press
| that whitehouse.gov is now running on
| Drupal, the open source content management
| system. That Drupal implementation is in
| turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with
| Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP
| stack. Apache Solr is the new White House
| search engine.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html
Recent:
Open Source Society ready to go
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| "We formed a new group in Thailand Open Source Federation or
| TOSF, which is a non-profit organisation, to promote the use of
| open sources. We have government members and enterprise users but
| BOSS is a commercial entity so we decided to form a new entity
| but still operate as part of TOSF," said Danupol.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/23956/open-source-society-ready-to-go
Nectec sponsors open-source software creation
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| National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is pouring Bt180
| million to promote the production of open-source software, as part of
| the "Strong Thailand" programme.
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/08/19/business/business_30110160.php
Open-source software suites pre-installed in local PCs
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| In a bid to promote the wider use of open-source software in Thailand, the
| National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) has joined five
| local computer manufacturers to pre-install open-source software suites in
| personal computers.
|
| The five companies are SVOA, D Com, Synnex (Thailand), IT Bakery and Powell
| Computer.
|
| Nectec's director Pansak Siriruchatapong said Nectec was developing and
| customising open-source software suites for the local-brand PC companies,
| including the operating system Ubuntu Linux and applications such as Open
| Office, Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software.
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/02/10/technology/technology_30095272.php
Related:
Thailand: Egat turns to open source to cut costs
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| There are 7,000 PC units based on Open Office or 70 per cent of all 12,000 PC
| units in the organisation.
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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/28/technology/technology_30046747.php
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