OSS Leftovers

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The customization of Open Source
A technology conference titled Open Source 101 is planned for April 17, and will host representatives from the world’s top tech companies.
According to Todd Lewis and and Sergio Aparicio, Microsoft, IBM, VM Ware, Red Hat, GitHub, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, Lending Tree, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (technology division), the Walt Disney Company, Linux Foundation, and many more will have a presence at the day long conference.
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DMG Blockchain Solutions Contributes to Open-Source Lightning Protocol to Speed Blockchain Transactions
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DMG Blockchain Solutions Contributes to Open-Source Lightning Protocol to Speed Blockchain Transactions
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Projects that make their rules explicit would see more participation
When we say that a something is "open," we generally highlight its transparency or visibility. But openness is also inherently linked with collaboration and, as such, with the way people work together. Collaboration involves dealing with issues such as the organization of work and the allocation of decision rights—in a nutshell, all that we normally call a "governance model."
For open communities and other organizations, making these governance models explicit is key for several reasons. First, it helps promote an organization's sense of transparency. One could know how much time a group takes to consider an issue, the chances contributions have of making an impact on the organization, or who is going to hear their voices when they speak up. Second, explicitly defining a governance model may also help one better understand and classify how open organizations are driven. In other words, governance models reveal clues about the particular distributions of power and authority inherent to an organization (e.g., democracy, meritocracy, (benevolent) dictatorship, etc.). For instance, the study of specific governance models could shed some light on the definition of meritocracy in the context of open source (a controversial topic still under discussion).
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Debian 11 continues inching closer towards release and it looks like the developers maintaining the "Devuan" fork won't be far behind with their re-base of the distribution focused on init system freedom.
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