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New technology could open gaming world to disabled
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| A new computer game designed by Imperial
| College London students could open the
| gaming world to those with severe physical
| disabilities.
|
| Using the open source game Pong, students
| at Imperial College London were able to
| make adaptations so that the player moves
| the bat using their eyes while wearing
| special glasses.
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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/289733
Zenoss: Open Source Infiltrates Large Service Providers?
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| Olivier Thierry (Chief Marketing Officer)
| and Brian Riley (VP Global Alliances)
| described several Zenoss business
| milestones to me earlier today. Among the
| anecdotes Thierry and Riley shared:
|
| * Zenoss generated roughly 150% year-
| over-year revenue growth in 2009 vs.
| 2008;
| * the Zenoss customer base grew roughly
| 40% in 2009 vs. 2008
| * for every $1 customers initially
| spent with Zenoss, the same customer
| typically spent an additional 40 cents
| in order to expand their use of Zenoss;
| * major service providers and
| consulting firms embracing Zenoss
| include Accenture, CSC, Perot and
| Verizon; and
| * VMware itself uses Zenoss to manage
| virtualized data centers.
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http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/29/zenoss-open-source-infiltrates-large-service-providers/
Open10MS: Still Open â Still Free
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| Iâm sitting in my office, which once housed
| all three of the OpenNMS Group founders,
| drinking some Copperline Amber while
| listening to the âtap tap tapâ of the drums
| as the guys in the next room play Rock Band
| on our HD projector.
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http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=1515
Open source tool to manage electronic petitions
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| A first version of an open source tool to
| help manage electronic petitions has been
| published on the Open Source Observatory
| and Repository (OSOR) for European public
| administrations.
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http://www.ukauthority.com/Headlines/tabid/36/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=2759
Free Cloud Alliance Formed - Open Source IaaS, PaaS and SaaS for the Enterprise
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| IELO, Mandriva, Nexedi and TioLive join
| forces to create the Free Cloud Alliance
| (FCA), an alliance of Free / Open Source
| Software publishers which provides 100%
| Open Source solutions for the fast growing
| market of Enterprise Cloud Computing. The
| Free Cloud Alliance (freecloudalliance.org)
| is the first Open Source Cloud Computing
| Stack which covers both Infrastructure as a
| Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service
| (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
| with a consistent set of technologies
| targetted at high performance and mission
| critical applications.
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http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/67499/
Learning competence with free and open source software
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| This personal change is one of the biggest
| reasons that I am committed to free
| software. Using Windows only reinforced my
| belief in my own incompetence at fixing or
| improving things. By contrast, free
| software proved to my that I was capable of
| far more than I had ever imagined.
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http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/learning-competence-with-free-and-open-source-software/
Tony Wasserman's thoughts on joining the OSI Board
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| As a new member of the Board (as of 1
| April), I thought that it would be useful
| to explain why I wanted to join the OSI
| Board and what I hope to achieve during my
| term. As you can see from my bio (on the
| Board member page), I've been involved with
| software, both proprietary and open source,
| for my entire career, both in industry and
| in the research community.
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http://opensource.org/node/514
Articles of regional Free Software law violate the Italian Constitution
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| Can you see now what the real problem is?
| Especially considering that even recent law
| proposals at the national level aren't so
| robust after all? This sentence may be just
| the first confirmation that several laws
| already approved, even with the best
| intentions, are in fact weak enough to not
| be enforceable. At this point, I really
| wonder how many local Free Software laws in
| other Countries are in the same situation.
| If you know the answer, please tell me! As
| far as Italy is concerned, it will be very
| interesting to hear what the new Piedmont
| Regional Council, that will be elected on
| March 29th 2010, will say about this, since
| there should be in it at least some of the
| 31 candidates that had officially committed
| to support Free Software if elected. Even
| other italian Regions, however, will have
| to rethink very carefully their Free
| Software strategies.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/it/node/135
Give your website some open-source sparkle
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| Iâm currently in full-on development mode
| on two projects, a Mac application and a
| website, and while Iâve been toiling Iâve
| found some terrific open-source code that
| has saved me weeks of programming time. So
| this column is a bit of a goody-bag of
| assorted open-source utilities that Iâve
| been using in earnest.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/356743/give-your-website-some-open-source-sparkle
How to buy GIS/mapping software
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| Also available are a number of "open
| source" GIS applications. Open source
| software is usually free, written by a
| community of users who all have access to
| the source code. The users constantly
| refine the software, posting new versions
| and specialized add-ins to the basic
| application. Open source products lack the
| flash of commercial packages, but often
| work as well or better than the high-priced
| types. There is an index of open source GIS
| products at http://opensourcegis.org.
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http://www.policeone.com/police-products/software/Data-Information-Sharing-Software/articles/2028136-How-to-buy-GIS-mapping-software/
Exadel Fiji: new forum, issue tracker, JavaFX support, open source soon
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| Exadel Fiji extends JSF by allowing the use
| of Flex with JSF components and within a
| JSF page. It comes with ready-to-use
| charting components based on Flash as well
| as universal wrapper which allows to wrap
| any Flash component as JSF component.
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http://mkblog.exadel.com/jsf/exadel-fiji-new-forum-issue-tracker/
A New View: Introducing Doc Viewer 2.0
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| This is the version of document viewer we
| will be releasing as open source software
| in the very, very near future.
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http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/a-new-view-introducing-doc-viewer-2-0/
WeWebU Turns 10 and Gives out Presents
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| Going Open Source is another important step
| in WeWebUâs growth strategy. They have
| decided to adopt a Commercial Open Source
| business model in addition to the
| traditional license sale. Stefan
| Waldhauser, co-founder and CEO of WeWebU,
| is excited: âI think Commercial Open Source
| is a significant trend in the software
| industry. Since our foundation ten years
| ago, WeWebU has always been driven by
| technology and the power of innovation. A
| Commercial Open Source strategy fits
| perfectly to our OpenWorkdesk offering and
| the objective to deliver the best way to
| build Composite Content Applications.â
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http://newsblaze.com/story/2010032604020900001.we/topstory.html
WeP Solutions reinforces services focus
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| The UTM offering, called Ubiq-Freedom which
| is available under an open-source licence
| includes open-source software such as Squid
| caching proxy for the Web and IP tables for
| the firewall.
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/wep-solutions-reinforces-services-focus/389975/
Bletchley Park Gets Â250,000 Government Funding
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| More recently Bletchley Park played host to
| a national partnership, designed to
| encourage the UK local authorities to work
| together to save Â60 million a year across
| their educational ICT budgets, through the
| use of open source solutions.
|
| âThe 17 Local Authorities comprising the
| North West Learning Grid will now be
| looking at the feasibility of implementing
| open source solutions in all areas of their
| education services,â said the CEO of the
| North West Learning Grid, Gary Clawson, in
| October.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/bletchley-park-gets-250000-government-funding-6120
Kit attacks Microsoft keyboards (and a whole lot more)
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| Security researchers on Friday unveiled an
| open-source device that captures the
| traffic of a wide variety of wireless
| devices, including keyboards, medical
| devices, and remote controls.
|
| Keykeriki version 2 captures the entire
| data stream sent between wireless devices
| using a popular series of chips made by
| Norway-based Nordic Semiconductor. That
| includes the device addresses and the raw
| payload being sent between them. The open-
| source package was developed by researchers
| of Switzerland-based Dreamlab Technologies
| and includes complete software, firmware,
| and schematics for building the $100
| sniffer.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/26/open_source_wireless_sniffer/
SIGVerse open source simulator
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| Users are able to program a virtual robot
| in C++ and modify the virtual environment
| to suit a wide range of situations.
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http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/03/sigverse_open_source_simulator.html
Magento: Reaching the Tipping Point?
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| Magento (formerly known as Varien), the
| company behind an open source ecommerce
| platform aptly named Magento, relaunched
| their Solution Partner Program in April
| 2009. And in last yearâs Open Source 50
| report, Magento was listed in the âBest of
| the Restâ section based on limited
| information and feedback from solution
| partners about the partner program. Fast
| forward to the present, and the company is
| showing some partner momentum. Magentoâs
| story offers some important lessons for
| other open source partner programs.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/26/magento-reaching-the-tipping-point/
Old phones save lives
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| IntraHealth and the Senegalese Ministry of
| Health are using a simple mobile
| information system based on
| FrontlineSMS:Medic, a free, open-source
| software platform that enables large-scale,
| two-way text messaging. The software was
| customized for the project in partnership
| with RAES, the African Network for Health
| Education. Providers send health data via
| cell phones to a centrally supported
| automated response server in Dakar, where
| it is analyzed by Ministry of Health staff.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/3/old-phones-save-lives
Making Sense of Open Source Diversity
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| Open source needs an app store.
|
| No, I am not crazy. Well, not about this,
| anyway. I know that apps for Linux, and
| open source apps in general, are free and
| easy to download and install. They are also
| numerous. Very. To the point where it has
| become increasingly difficult to keep track
| of which apps are available to do which
| tasks. And thatâs me talking--someone who
| is supposed to know whatâs what in the
| community.
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/102521/making-sense-open-source-diversity
Editor's Note: What is There Besides Money?
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| My county lives and dies by volunteer
| labor. If we didn't have so many generous,
| far-sighted volunteers filling key
| positions we'd be in sorry shape. The fire
| departments are all volunteer, and they are
| required to have the same training and
| skills as big-city paid departments. Search
| and rescue, sheriff's reserves, home health
| care and hospice, and on and on and
| on...all of these jobs that are ordinarily
| paid positions are capably filled by
| skilled, committed unpaid volunteers.
|
| Sound familiar? It is true that a lot of
| FOSS development is paid, but a sizable
| amount is still done by unpaid volunteers.
| The value of diverse, open development and
| distribution should speak for itself, given
| its long and successful history, and yet
| one of the biggest unanswered questions is
| how can a person make a living from FOSS?
| Those folks who are quickest with answers
| like "give away the code, sell service and
| support" are people who have jobs with
| paychecks, and have never tried it.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-26-030-35-OP-CY
Culture in computing.
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| This is my quick take on these three
| computing cultures in an already too long
| blog posting. In summary, I think that
| Apple culture is going the way of mobile
| gadgets, windows culture is as hard and
| mouldy as two week old stale bread and the
| open source culture is undergoing a
| renaissance and bringing computing back to
| an even keel. I also believe that a very
| important factor is that the younger
| generation are much more technologically
| savvy than my generation of fat balding
| greybearded eldergeeks :) They realise the
| intrinsic value and it is their thoughts
| and opinions which are influencing the
| change in the current cultures. What do you
| think? How are the current computing
| cultures evolving and how will they evolve
| in the future?
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/culture-in-computing-37708
Symbian plans fightback as phone share slumps
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| On a handset running Symbian ^3, he showed
| me features such as multi-touch, multi-
| tasking, 3D support, improved shading and
| transparency on the screen interface, a
| social address book linked to Facebook and
| Twitter and moveable and customisable web-
| based widgets.
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http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/03/symbian-plans-fightback-as-phone-share-slumps/
Why Open Source Rules for Collaboration Software
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| The category of collaboration software is
| growing and changing quickly, encompassing
| fields like CRM dashboards, enterprise
| intelligence and analytics. In this
| category, the very nature of open source
| software gives it a clear advantage. It
| doesn't seek to own the platform, the
| protocol, the exchange format or the
| community.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Why-Open-Source-Rules-for-Collaboration-Software-69627.html
Former MySQL CEO: More successful open source startups needed
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| Open source is no longer considered the
| wild underdog, but it will need more new
| companies making money off the trend, the
| one-time CEO of MySQL stressed Wednesday at
| the EclipseCon 2010 conference.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/former-mysql-ceo-more-successful-open-source-startups-needed-850
Subtitles come to Miro 3.0
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| Miro, the open source Internet TV / podcast
| downloader and player, has been updated to
| version 3.0 and is now able to display
| embedded or standalone subtitles for
| videos. When a video is playing in Miro 3,
| a drop down menu displays any automatically
| located subtitles. Alternatively, the user
| can select their own subtitle files.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Subtitles-come-to-Miro-3-0-964871.html
FOSSBazaar face to face meeting at LF Collaboration Summit
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| As in the last two years, we'll be holding
| a FOSSBazaar face to face meeting at the LF
| Collaboration Summit. The Collaboration
| Summit takes place from Wednesday April 14
| to Friday April 16 in San Francisco and our
| meeting will be on Thursday and Friday.
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https://fossbazaar.org/content/fossbazaar-face-face-meeting-lf-collaboration-summit
BLOSSOMS: Jordan Chooses Open Education for High Schools
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| Jordanian Minister of Education, Ibrahim
| Badran, announced Jordan's intention to
| start BLOSSOMS II in ten selected high
| schools of the kingdom. BLOSSOMS (Blended
| Learning Open Source Science or Math
| Studies) is an Open-education initiative
| started by MIT in partnership with Jordan
| and Pakistan.
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http://jordanopensource.org/article/blossoms-jordan-chooses-open-education-high-schools
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