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Liberation must replace domination in digital world
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| IâM AT Open Source Bridge, a conference in
| Portland, Oregon for those who donât only
| write software thatâs free, but who care
| about it enough to plan, organise, and
| speak at an entirely volunteer-run
| programming conference. Portland is the
| second (and perhaps, the denizens here
| would say, the first) city of free
| software.
|
| Itâs a strange time for this community,
| caught between their ideals and the
| business world. Back in the early 1990s,
| Linus Torvalds, then a post-graduate at
| the University of Helsinki with a strange
| hobby of building a competitor to Windows
| in his spare time, would speak jokingly of
| his plans for âWorld Domination. Fast!â
|
| Now, 20 years on, the world domination
| phase of open source software has been and
| perhaps gone.
|
| Free software is ubiquitous and invisible:
| it powers Google and Yahoo!, a sizeable
| chunk of Fortune 500, and most of the
| internetâs infrastructure. Iâve seen it in
| use from Beijing to Tajikistan (which has
| volunteers who convert it to run in their
| native Tajik language, which Microsoft and
| Apple wonât deign to).
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0604/1224271808919.html
The Quintessence of Open Source
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| The second Innovators barcamp - a meet-up
| organized by the Italian innovators group
| to pass from talking about innovation to
| do it in and for public administrations -
| was the perfect venue to share some ideas
| about âOpen Source & Multi-sided Marketsâ.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/06/03/the-quintessence-of-open-source/
TransferSummit - The practical magic of open source
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| The event, says Gardler, is a salute to
| "the spirit of traditional business-
| academia knowledge exchange" but he
| emphasised the practical nature of
| TransferSummit; "Unlike other events, our
| reach goes beyond the theoretical: we're
| focussing on the strategic solutions that
| improve collaboration between commercial
| and academic concerns". The aim is to
| allow participants to understand, share
| and discuss the strategic and tactical
| mechanisms, such as community outreach,
| academic / business partnerships, spin-
| outs, start-ups, applied research,
| intellectual property licensing and
| collaborative think tanks, so that they
| can grow their organisations effectively
| and in an open source way.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/TransferSummit-The-practical-magic-of-open-source-1014579.html
Presentations Now Available From Apache Lucene EuroCon Conference
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/presentations-now-available-from-apache-lucene-eurocon-conference-2010-06-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010
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| The fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting
| (LGM) took place May 27-30 in Brussels,
| Belgium, bringing together the developers
| of the open source creative application
| suite: GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus,
| Rawstudio, Blender, and a dozen other
| related projects, such as the Open Font
| Library and Open Clip Art Library. As is
| tradition, most of the projects gave
| update presentations, and both time and
| meeting space was set aside for teams to
| work and make plans.
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https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/390572/8e232774d2ee4c9e/
Datacenter Barometer: The Next Generation of Open Source Development
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| No, this isn't egoism talking--it's all
| about the 6th International Conference on
| Open Source Systems, hosted at the
| University of Notre Dame.
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http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=14787
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