Leftovers: OSS
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The 2015 open source summer reading list
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Announcing Our First SysAdmin Linux Certification Workshop at LinuxCon
Taught by Dr. Jerry Cooperstein, The Linux Foundation’s Training Program Director who developed the Essentials of System Administration course, this workshop will provide the opportunity to dig into topics relevant to taking the exam and to get your questions answered live. Jerry is an amazing Linux talent and teacher so this is a wonderful chance to learn from the best at a very small price.
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gtk3 clipboard support implemented
Our LibreOffice gtk2 vclplug inherits from our generic X11 vclplug and so in lots of places we just continued to use our historic X11 vclplug for various things, one big example being clipboard support.
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LibreOffice debuts in the Mac App Store
Getting an open source project into the storefront of Apple's walled garden is tough. But LibreOffice has done it, thanks to hard work from community member Collabora
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Localizing a WordPress Blog
There are many translation plugins available for WordPress, and most of them deal with translations of articles. This might be of interest for others, but not for me. If you have a blog with visitors from various language background, because you are living abroad, or writing in several languages, you might feel tempted to provide visitors with a localized “environment”, meaning that as much as possible is translated into the native language of the visitor, without actually translating content – but allowing to.
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A template for starting project documentation
Let's say you've created a program or launched an open source project, and now you have people's attention. They start to ask more and more questions, taking more and more of your precious developer time to answer. They fill your mailbox, sometimes even spam your IRC channel, often repeating the same questions. You know that you need to provide something in writing to help your users. But where should you start? What tools can you use? What output format do you choose? What subjects must you cover?
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Facebook Open Sources Analysis Tool That Can Keep Apps Hardened
Now Facebook is extending its practice of delivering tested open source tools through releasing Infer, a code verification tool. Facebook bills it as "a static program analyzer that Facebook uses to identify bugs before mobile code is shipped." Static analyzers are automated tools that spot bugs in source code by scanning programs without running them.
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KualiCo as a Driver of Open Source Development
To be clear, open source is a key, long-term, strategic differentiator for us, with the knowledge that times are changing. Instead of the majority of the development work being done by the community (as was the case historically) the larger proportion of development will be done by the company, going forward. But we will continue to involve the community, encourage them to make checkins, and continue to make all the Kuali code available.
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Open Source WSO2 API Manager 1.9 Now Available
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AtScale, Marrying Business Intelligence and Hadoop, Nabs $7 Million
Throughout 2015, tools that demystify and function as useful front-ends and connectors for the open source Hadoop project are much in demand. Hadoop has been the driving technology behind much of the Big Data trend, and there are many administrators who can benefit from simplified dashboards and analytics tools that work with it. In fact, as we covered here, MapR's CEO predicted toward the beginning of the year that "in 2015, IT will embrace self-service Big Data to allow developers, data scientists and data analysts to directly conduct data exploration."
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LLVM 3.7 Penciled In For A Late August Release
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Demonopolization
Better late than never… In 2010, Putin ordered Russia to convert to FLOSS by 2015. It took them until now just to figure out how to do that:
- Prefer locally generated software,
- Choose GNU/Linux and FLOSS as the platform, and
- Collaborate with other countries, particularly BRICS, to create specific applications.
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Whatever You Call It -- Open Journalism, Social Media Journalism, Open-Source Intelligence -- It's Going Mainstream
Of course, Higgins then goes on to pinpoint the exact position in Russia of the military convoy shown there, using not just the image's co-ordinates (which anyway need to be verified) but tiny signs in the photo, including road markings, half-visible posts and cracks in the road that most of us would miss completely. It's an amazing performance, and demonstrates well the incredible potential of this field. Whatever it's called.
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Jurismatic, TheFamily’s latest concoction, provides open source legal documents for French startups
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Review CeDEM15, the international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government
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Animal figures in ZeMarmot
Also in case you missed the news, ZeMarmot’s crowdfunding got extended by the platform so you are still encouraged to contribute if you wish to be part of an awesome 2D animation film under Creative Commons BY-SA/Free Art, made with Free Software and with a cool story (well I write it, of course it is cool )!
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NIFO updates eGovernment report on EU and EC
The EU's Open Data Portal is the single point of access for businesses and citizens to a growing range of data from European institutions. Data are free for reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes. By providing easy and free access to data, the portal aims to promote their innovative use and unleash their economic potential. The EC adds that the portal aims to help foster transparency and accountability.
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Revised PSI Directive approved in Spain
This approval represents a key evolution in Open Data policy in Spain, as it transposes the new elements of the revised PSI Directive into Spanish law. The PSI Directive provides a framework for Member States to help them include a public data re-use model in their laws.
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Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics
DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source project in an effort to offer developers software tools for crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions.
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The graffiti drone that tagged Kendall Jenner's face is now open source
Earlier this year, graffiti artist and feces portrait painter KATSU carried out what has been described as the first recorded act of drone graffiti. Using a modified quadcopter, KATSU sprayed a thin, red scribble over the face of Kendall Jenner on a gigantic advertising billboard in New York City. It wasn't the most legible of tags, but it was there. Now, KATSU wants to make this power available to all, and earlier this month he launched ICARUS ONE: the "world's first open-source paint drone."
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Build your own graffiti drone? Artist releases open-source design for autonomous flying vandalism
A little more than a month ago, Katsu demonstrated the drone to the world by drawing on a billboard of Kendall Jenner. He captured the historic event on video and put it on YouTube, where it has racked up nearly 1.3 million views.
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Running circle-packing in the Browser, now using GHCJS
Quick summary: Cabal integration is very good (like haste, but unline fay), interfacing JavaScript is nice and easy (like fay, but unlike haste), and a quick check seems to indicate that it is faster than either of these two. I should note that I did not update the other two demos, so they represent the state of fay and haste back then, respectively.
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