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DOE Launches New Website to Bring Energy Technology Information to the Public
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| The data and tools housed on the free,
| editable and evolving wiki-platform will be
| used by government officials, the private
| sector, project developers, the
| international community, and others to help
| deploy clean energy technologies across the
| country and around the world.
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http://media-newswire.com/release_1107929.html
Open Colour Standard: free/open alternative to Pantone
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| Ginger coons writes in about the Open
| Colour Standard, "an effort to create a new
| colour standard to help free/open source
| graphics programs bridge the gap between
| screen and print."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/13/open-colour-standard.html
Flat World Knowledge Adds Another $2.5 Million For Open-Source Textbooks
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| Open-source textbook firm Flat World
| Knowledge has raised an additional $2.5
| million in funding. The company said back
| in March that it had raised $8 million in a
| first round of fundingâbut a spokesman says
| that round was expanded because of
| âmomentumâ in its business. The startup
| says that this fall more than 40,000
| college students at 400 colleges used its
| textbooks, which it makes available for
| free online and are registered under a
| Creative Commons open license, up from
| 1,000 students at 30 colleges last spring.
| The additional funding comes as there
| appears to be a growing movement among
| students and colleges to find alternatives
| to purchasing high-priced textbooks. Rental
| textbook firms Chegg and BookRenter have
| both raised their own rounds in recent
| months.
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-flat-world-knowledge-adds-another-2.5-million-for-open-source-textbooks/
Dell Increases its Crowdsourcing Efforts - Will it Work?
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| The free form aspects of the crowdsourcing
| effort attracts a consumer crowd. Product
| groups at Dell find Ideastorm useful. The
| Linux community is especially vocal on
| IdeaStorm and Dell now offers Ubuntu on
| Dell machines based on feedback from the
| Linux community.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/12/dell-deepens-its-crowdsourcing.php
Recent:
Obama Promotes New Open Government Initiative
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| U.S. government agencies must publish their
| information online in "open formats," under
| a new open government plan released by U.S.
| President Barack Obama's administration.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/184030/obama_promotes_new_open_government_initiative.html
OSTP to Launch Public Forum to Discuss Options for Improving Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research
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| On Thursday, Dec. 10, OSTP will launch a
| public consultation on Public Access
| Policy. The Administration is seeking
| public input on access to publicly-funded
| research results, such as those that appear
| in academic and scholarly journal articles.
| Currently, the National Institutes of
| Health require that research funded by its
| grants be made available to the public
| online at no charge within 12 months of
| publication. The Administration is seeking
| views as to whether this policy should be
| extended to other science agencies and, if
| so, how it should be implemented.
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http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/09/ostp-to-launch-public-forum-on-how-best-to-make-federally-funded-research-available-for-free/
Why open source may win the electronic health record market
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| There are literally dozens of EHRs to
| choose from. The vast majority are
| proprietary.
|
| [...]
|
| Enter Medsphere, a commercial supporter of
| VistA software. Their OpenVista is open
| source. Kern could download it, call it
| free, and then sign a professional services
| contract with Medsphere for support.
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http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/why-open-source-may-win-the-electronic-health-record-market/684/
Find out where the UK government spends its money
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| The Open Knowledge Foundation has created a
| visualisation so that everyone can easily
| understand British government spending
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/dec/11/government-borrowing-public-finance
Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent
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| CTO Adams and the city of San Francisco are
| looking to share the technology, which is
| built on an open source platform.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/state-local/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900791
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