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Government institutions are a prime target for open source software for many reasons, primarily the low cost of ownership and relative ease of upgrading to the latest standards and software. Network World has pieced together a map of governmental adoption of open source around the world, and it paints an interesting picture of worldwide open […]
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The Linux Foundation has compiled a report of the companies and individuals who contribute to and influence the Linux Kernel code. The latest report includes kernel releases 3.19 to 4.7, here are some major points from their report: Nearly 115,000 changesets have been merged from 5,062 individual developers, representing 500 corporations. On average, each version […]
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FastText is a software library designed to help with text representation and classification; facebook has used this tool internally to evaluate the meaning of users posts. The company has released it as open source, and hopes other research and engineering communities will find uses for it. Read more from Facebook.
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Attic Labs is an startup based in San Francisco. The company has announced they’ve raised $8.1 Million to advance Noms: their own open source database software. Noms differs from other database software by making it possible to fork and sync data in the same way that git allows people to work together on source code. […]
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Upskill University is an online educational resource that delivers education related to business changes taking place in the communications industry. The program has announced a series of classes on open source technology in the telecommunications industry that will start on August 10th. Here’s the published schedule of classes for this series: Telcos & Open Source […]
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The British Government Digital Services (GDS) seeks to hire an Open Source Lead to help the UK government advance open source initiatives. The UK government has been receptive to open standards and open source technology over the past few years, so it’s a natural step for them to hire someone to lead this effort. The […]
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Black Duck Software is a company that provides automated solutions for securing open source software and monitoring compliance. The company has announced the launch of the Center for Open Source Research and Innovation (COSRI) that will fund research to improve innovation, information, and education related to open source software. From the press release: “Through COSRI, […]
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The State of Open Source: Digital Manufacturing
Over the past 20 or so years, the open source community has continually grown and evolved, with the majority of developments occurring in the software world. Recent developments, however, are allowing the open source community to expand into the physical realm and are opening up new opportunities for everyone. I call this the digital manufacturing […]
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