OSS, Openwashing and Sharing
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VOLTHA Release Provides the Brain for AT&T’s XGS-PON Plans
AT&T’s 10-gigabit symmetric passive optical network technology (XGS-PON) plans are set to receive some open source brains.
The carrier today released the first version of its Virtual Optical Line Termination Hardware Abstraction (VOLTHA) software into the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). The platform provides a software framework – or “brain” – behind the XGS-PON access network in the cloud.
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AT&T Releases Open-Source VOLTHA Software for XGS-PON
In AT&T’s latest effort to virtualize the last mile of connectivity between its fiber network and customers’ homes or businesses, the operator released open-source software it calls the “brain” for XGS-PON access technology.
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Say Hi to Subutai
Subutai is an open-source project and platform that lets anyone share, barter or rent computer resources to create clouds from the edge rather than centralized locations. Available devices can attach to these clouds hovering on the edge. We started calling it Social Cloud Computing, but technically, Subutai is a dynamic p2p multi-cloud made possible thanks to Lightweight Linux Containers and software-defined networking. Think Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud, but running on your computers and the computers of social contacts who share their computer resources with you. Or, think AirBnB on computers for the people's cloud.
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Open-Source Tool Aims to Boost Confidence in Ice Sheet Models
Massive ice sheets with layers built up over millions of years blanket most of Greenland and Antarctica. As a result of climate change, these ice sheets have begun to melt and shrink. Scientists believe this trend is likely to continue and will contribute to sea level rise for decades to come.
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What are the advantages of open source software?
Open source software attracts an ever-growing list of advocates. It can save organisations a lot of money while still providing a superior service to that available from proprietary vendors.
Read on for a rundown of the key benefits open source software has over commercial products
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Webinar: 10-step plan to rollout Cloud devops
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The ARCS model of motivational design
The ARCS model is an instructional design method developed by John Keller that focuses on motivation. ARCS is based on a research into best practices and successful teachers and gives you tactics on how to evaluate your lessons in order to build motivation right into them.
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Patching Firefox
For Firefox 57, mozilla decided to overhaul much of their browser. The changes are large and massive, and in some ways revolutionary. It's no surprise, therefore, that some of the changes break compatibility with older things.
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Oracle Builds a Blockchain Cloud Service Based on Hyperledger
At its Oracle OpenWorld conference this week in San Francisco, the company announced its new Blockchain Cloud Service. The distributed ledger cloud platform aims to help enterprises make various transactions more secure, using blockchain technology. The new service — which is fully managed by Oracle — is part of Oracle’s Cloud Platform.
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Blockchain Startup Circle To Launch Open Source Project To Send Money Like Email And Tex
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PostgreSQL 10 released
Version 10 of the PostgreSQL database management system has been released.
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The illustrated Open Organization is now available [Ed: A whole book dedicated to openwashing Red Gat for recruitment/marketing purposes]
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The Untapped Potential of Open-Source for Education
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Elsevier's Latest Brilliant Idea: Adding Geoblocking To Open Access
We've just written about a troubling move by Elsevier to create its own, watered-down version of Wikipedia in the field of science. If you are wondering what other plans it has for the academic world, here's a post from Elsevier’s Vice President, Policy and Communications, Gemma Hersh, that offers some clues. She's "responsible for developing and refreshing policies in areas related to open access, open data, text mining and others," and in "Working towards a transition to open access", Hersh meditates upon the two main kinds of open access, "gold" and "green".
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Medical 3D Printing Roundup: Slovenia's Symbiolab develops open source Vitaprint bioprinter, two 3D printed spine implants approved
With its promise to someday 3D print viable human organs for transplantation, bioprinting is one of the most exciting additive technologies out there. Its biggest drawback? Cost. Many popular 3D bioprinters cost upward of $200,000, if they’re even on sale at all.
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