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Interview with Brian Kissel, JanRain
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| About three or four years ago, a number of
| individuals in the open source community
| said--the concept of single sign-on is
| compelling, we ought to do something to get
| lots of companies to participate--and that
| was the genesis of OpenID.
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http://www.nwinnovation.com/story/0025591.html
Infosys partnering CSIR for TB project
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| New Delhi: Software giant Infosys
| Technologies Ltd is partnering the Council
| of Scientific and Industrial Research
| (CSIR) for its open source drug discovery
| project (OSDD). The project, launched last
| year, is a novel attempt at fashioning an
| efficient way to look for tuberculosis (TB)
| drugs.
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http://www.livemint.com/2009/12/06223046/Infosys-partnering-CSIR-for-TB.html
New Open Source Track-and-Trace Software Can Help Small Companies
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| Small companies prepared to share
| commercially sensitive information can add
| value and develop new services for their
| customers, using a distributed track-and-
| trace software solution.
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http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/new-open-source-track-and-trace-software-can-help-small-companies-17970.html
Transparency, Open Government and Climate Change
http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/transparency-open-government-and-climate-change-17941.html
Local Governments Offer Data to Miners
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| âThe timing now with the open data movement
| is really critical because there are a lot
| of open-source tools that really make that
| data usable,â Mr. Gundersen said. These
| include the mapping tool he used to build
| Stumble Safely and also a site for the
| United States Agency for International
| Development that maps public health
| clinics.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/technology/internet/07cities.html?_r=1
Feds open to computer reboot
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| It's one example of what taxpayers could
| reap if federal institutions embraced what
| is known as open-source software, according
| to the paper.
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http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/07/12062056-sun.html
Stage was set for drama at Whistler film summit
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| When panel members talked about new ways of
| getting content out to the public,
| including Crossâs method of âopen sourceâ
| filmmaking where the consumer actually
| creates part of the movie, Safford did not
| over-react. In fact, he got off the best
| line of the day.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Stage+drama+Whistler+film+summit/2305439/story.html
NNDA gives âopen sourceâ economic development system a try
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| Mike Skaggs, who heads the Nevada
| Commission on Economic Development staff,
| has dubbed NNDAâs approach as âopen-source
| economic development.â
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http://www.nnbw.com/ArticleRead.aspx?storyID=14320
Recent:
Free Software in Education
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| The notion of Free Software is definitely political. Iâm not stating the
| obvious, that any human work that affects a community in any way is
| political. Neither I suggest that the ideological (as opposed to purely
| technical) reasons of many Free Software supporters (and its critics)
| automatically brand it as a political issue. They alone might as well
| characterize it as philosophical, artistic or simply iconic. Free Software is
| political because it is strongly tied with a deep political question: that of
| education, and access to it.
|
| [...]
|
| You can read two great articles that support this: Richard Stallmanâs Why
| schools should exclusively use free software and Jean Peyratoutâs Why give
| precedence to Free Software at Schools. To summarize them, Free Softwares
| helps students assimilate and generate knowledge, instead of simply acquire
| technical skills; it offers education, instead of training. It helps build
| communities, and promotes (actually depends on) discussion, cooperation,
| initiative and active participation to the development process. In an
| increasingly expanding digital world, it embodies the ideals of education.
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http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/
Students Adore Moodle
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| And that was how Moodle was born. Soon after it was invented, Moodle's
| popularity grew rapidly in schools and colleges around the world. The stories
| I hear from teachers who are using Moodle are deeply intriguing. Moodle
| works, and it works very well.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/165289/article.html
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