Mozilla has announced new funding via their Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program to support important open source projects. Ushahidi was the biggest benefactor of this program, receiving $194,000. Ushahidi is a platform for “crowdsourcing, monitoring, visualizing, and responding to reports from people caught up in political turmoil or subject to governmental or vigilante abuse.” […]
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Yahoo has announced the release of Vespa, a big data processing and service engine. This engine is a critical component of the Yahoo search engine, and they hope that by making this open source more developers will be able to “build applications that can compute responses to user requests, over large datasets, at real time […]
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The German city of Munich has been applauded in the past for their decisions to embrace the use of open source software in the city government. They had the largest initiative of this type when they completed LiMux, their own custom version of Linux, in 2013 and subsequently deployed it to more than 15,000 city […]
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In another example of the company’s ongoing embrace of open source software, Microsoft has become a premium sponsor of the Open Source Initiative. From the announcement: Microsoft’s history with the OSI dates back to 2005 with the submission of the Microsoft Community License, then again in August of 2007 with the submission of the Microsoft […]
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Google has announced that 1,128 students from 68 countries have successfully completed the 2017 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This number is 86.2% of the total number that were announced as participants back in May. These students worked with 201 open source organizations and 1,600 mentors over the summer. See the projects the students completed […]
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BeagleBoard has been making popular System-On-a-Chip (SOC) boards for a number of years now. They have now released the PocketBeagle, a USB key fob computer. It’s based on Octavo Systems’ OSD3358-SM 21 mm x 21 mm system-in-package (SiP) OSD3358-512M-BSM which includes 512 MB DDR3 RAM, 1 GHz ARMÂ Cortex-A8 CPU, 2x 200 MHz PRUs, ARM Cortex-M3, […]
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GitHub has published the results of their 2017 open source survey that highlights many of the challenges the open source industry is currently facing. They “collected responses from 5,500 randomly sampled respondents sourced from over 3,800 open source repositories on GitHub.com, and over 500 responses from a non-random sample of communities that work on other […]
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The National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC-Tanzania), in collaboration with Hivos, Bioversity International, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Africa and other partners are currently implementing a project to explore the possibility of an open source seed system. Their goal is to combat the threats climate change poses by providing greater availability and diversity of four […]
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The State of Open Source: Privacy and Governance
Privacy has received a great amount of attention globally in recent months. Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, has been releasing extensive information about the NSA through the Guardian. These leaks have painted a very questionable picture of the US government, specifically the NSA, carrying out ongoing spying operations . Before now, privacy in digital […]
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