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[News] British Awareness of Free Software Increases, UK Data Set Free

  • Subject: [News] British Awareness of Free Software Increases, UK Data Set Free
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:04:23 +0000
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Open source software 'can alleviate security risks'

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| Open source software could help to 
| alleviate the increasing risks posed by 
| hackers, according to an IT researcher.
`----

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.34104

Bett 2010 roundup

,----[ Quote ]
| Sadly we met few children at this year's 
| show but any that ventured near met a 
| sticky end in that the price for a lollypop 
| was a free copy of Ubuntu and a 'talk' :). 
| Also young teachers were thin on the 
| ground. Maybe ICT is uncool? 
`----

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2746&blogid=17

Tim Berners-Lee launches UK public data website

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| Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched 
| Data.gov.uk, giving access to a wealth of 
| public data, and the Guardian launched a 
| website to make finding that data easier
`----

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/21/timbernerslee-government-data


Recent:

Tim Berners-Lee unveils government data project

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| Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has
| unveiled his latest venture for the UK
| government, which offers the public better
| access to official data.
|
| A new website, data.gov.uk, will offer
| reams of public sector data, ranging from
| traffic statistics to crime figures, for
| private or commercial use.
`----

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8470797.stm


Are You Ready For An Open Source Car?

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| Admit it, when many of you think of open
| source you assume software. But new
| concepts of open source in hardware and
| design promise to transform many
| industries. Open Source's allure of faster,
| more agile development, quicker innovation
| and accelerating evolution of technology
| doesn't apply to software alone.
|
| The first time I heard of open source
| hardware was when both my friend Brad Feld
| and Fred Wilson wrote about Bug Labs in
| their blogs. I was intrigued by the idea
| but didn't quite grok it. I knew that if
| Brad and Fred invested in it there must be
| something to it and I would watch it
| develop. But the idea seems to have some
| legs.
`----

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56214


Our Future World: Freedom (and Daemon)

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| The Daemon series is an exploration of a
| could-be-now, constantly connected society.
| Suarez has taken cutting edge technology
| and inserted it into everyday life. It's a
| great exploration of where our society
| might be headed. In many ways it reminds me
| Cory Doctorow's excellent Little Brother.
| Cory's young-adult novel is a great primer
| for hacker and maker culture. Daemon serves
| a similar purpose providing a primer for
| what a networked society that is structured
| like MMORPG will look like.
`----

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/our-future-world-freedom-and-d.html


Open source car

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| The campaign is part of Fiatâs push to embrace the digital age head-on. By
| creating an open forum, it acknowledges that all ideas generated might be
| used by other individuals, or by its rivals. A bold step that might spell the
| beginning of the end for closed-shop car design.
`----

http://www.cmdglobal.com/database/F/671216/Open_source_car


Knowledge Exchange comparative report on Costs and Benefits of Open Access

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| In June 2009 a study was completed that had been commissioned by Knowledge
| Exchange and written by Professor John Houghton, Victoria University,
| Australia. This report on the study was titled: "Open Access â What are the
| economic benefits?
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http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316


Do We Need Open Access Journals?

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| On the one hand, it would be ironic if the very field that acted as a midwife
| to open access journals should also be the one that begins to undermine it
| through a move to repository-based open publishing of preprints. On the
| other, it doesn't really matter; what's important is open access to the
| papers. If these are in preprint form, or appear as fully-fledged articles in
| peer-reviewed open access journals is a detail, for the users at least; it's
| more of a challenge for publishers, of course...
`----

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-we-need-open-access-journals.html


Sir Bonar on Intercept Modernisation at Open Tech 09

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| Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO is her Majestyâs most senior civil
| servant concerned with information and communications technologies
| (or âICTsâ). Here he speaks about about the benefits of how government uses
| ICTs to provide Intercept Modernisation, Personalised Services, and Safeguard
| your Identity.
`----

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/07/sir-bonar-on-intercept-modernisation-at-open-tech-09/


The Doctor Who Model of Open Source

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| How do we sustain Open Source in a distributed world? We are facing this
| challenge with several of our chemical software creations/packages. People
| move, institutions change. Open Source does not, of itself, grow and
| flourish â it needs nurturing. Many packages require a lot of work before
| they are in a state to be usefully enhanced by the community - âthrow it over
| the wall and it will flourishâ does not work.
|
| Many OS projects have clear governance and (at least implicitly) funded
| management. Examples are Apache, Eclipse, etc. Many others have the âBDFLâ -
| Benevolent Dictator For Life with characters such as RBS, Linus, Guido
| Python, Larry Perl, etc. These command worldwide respect and they have income
| models which are similar to literary giants. These models donât (yet?) work
| for chemistry.
`----

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2059


UNESCO releases new publication on open educational resources

,----[ Quote ]
| UNESCO has released its first openly licensed publication. Open Educational
| Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers
| and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER
| Community. Access the online edition â or buy the book!
`----

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28899&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


Why Scientific Publishing Will Never be the Same

,----[ Quote ]7
| For those of us tracking open access and its wider import, it's pretty clear
| that scientific publishing has changed for ever. But for some within the
| industry, there remains the desperate hope that all this new-fangled open,
| collaborative stuff will just blow over.
`----

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-scientific-publishing-will-never-be.html


It's Our Data: Time to Open Up

,----[ Quote ]
| Last week I wrote about David Cameron's fine words about cancelling ID cards
| and generally opening up data. It was full of sound and fury, but I reserve
| judgement on just how much it really signified.
|
| But here's a hopeful sign that things really might change if the Tories win
| power at the next general election. It's a new report from the Centre for
| Policy Studies
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2312


Open Access and the A-Bomb

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| Importantly, by putting their papers into arXiv physicists ensure that they
| are freely available to anyone who wishes to access them â assuming they have
| an Internet connection â regardless of whether they or their institution has
| a subscription to the journal in which the paper is published. Indeed, some
| papers in arXiv are never published in a journal at all.
`----

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-access-and-a-bomb.html


Book Publisher Eksmo Acquires Online Ebook Store LitRes

http://blog.quintura.com/2009/06/22/book-publisher-eksmo-acquires-online-ebook-store-litres/?owa_from=feed&owa_sid=


Article: Itâs our data

,----[ Quote ]
| The 700,000 pages of scanned images put online in pdf were described by Sir
| Stuart Bell as a âgreat achievementâ for Parliament. And I suppose it is if
| youâre used to inscribing your words on animal skins.
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http://www.yrtk.org/2009/article-its-our-data/
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