Leftovers: OSS and Sharing Culture
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Open source developers hostile to women, claims Docker DevOps guy
Open source development is not a meritocracy, and its culture globally is hostile to women. That was a claim made at Cloud Week 2015 in Paris by Jérôme Petazzoni, 'Tinkerer Extraordinaire' for software container provider, Docker.
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HashiCorp Unifies Open Source IT Infrastructure Management
When it comes to IT infrastructure management, many IT organizations have opted to employ open source tools such as Packer, Terraform and Consul as alternatives to commercial offerings, mainly because getting budget approval for IT management software can be a challenge.
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Introducing s2n, An Open-Source TLS implementation from Amazon
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YC Alum PipelineDB Releases Open Source Streaming SQL Database
PipelineDB, a Y Combinator Winter 2014 graduate, announced the availability of the open source version of its streaming SQL database product today. A commercial version is expected later this year.
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Something about styles in LibreOffice
Styles are much more than defining the look and feel of text in a paragraph. Its almost everything about how paragraphs behave in the context. A Paragraph style for example defines how words are hyphenated and in what language the text in the paragraph should be spell checked.
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Germany IT planning board wants to pool resources
Germany’s IT planning board (IT-Planungsrat), a steering committee of federal and state government IT boards, is recommending the pooling of IT projects and IT development. Uniting IT project is important because of the increasing digitisation of public administration services, the rising complexity of IT and the growing importance of IT security.
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Denmark helps coach Malta local councils on eGovernment
Denmark’s Digital Agency (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) and Malta’s Information Technology Agency (MITA) are coaching the archipelago’s local council officials on eGoverment solutions. In June, a workshop on guiding and encouraging citizens to use online services, was attended by about 100 council representatives from the islands of Malta and Gozo.
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Awards for Austrian and Swiss eGovernment projects
The Austrian online family allowance application and the Swiss federal geoportal geo.admin.ch are the winners of this year’s eGovernment-Wettbewerb (eGovernment Competition), which took place in Berlin on 24 June.
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Italy: eParticipation at the centre of decision making (webinar)
In a webinar, titled “Govern with Citizens: online participation in the design of public policies”, the Ministry for Simplification in Administration said that civil society had been consulted in finalising the next Action Plan and commentaries had been collected to help build the text.
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Malta a front-runner in provision of e-government services, yet take up is low - Jose Herrera
Malta is one of the leaders in the European Union when it comes to the provision of e-government services, yet the uptake of such services is low, the Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness Jose Herrera said today.
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Biohand: An Inexpensive 3D Printed Open Source Prosthetic
Martin Vincent Bloedorn is a Brazilian CAD enthusiast who says he enjoys learning languages from C++ to Japanese, “fiddling on my 3D printer,” and playing the drums.
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Tinker, the Downloadable Open-Source No-Weld Motorcycle - Video
Just when we were thinking again that the motorcycling world is passing once more through a period when innovations seem scarce, here comes Jack Lennie and his Tinker machine. The idea of a motorcycle kit that can be assembled in your backyard is not new, but Lennie's take on it is all 21st-century thinking.
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Open Hardware Summit 2015 open for registration, call for proposals
The Summit will be held in Philadelphia, on September 19 this year. This annual conference is organized and hosted by the Open Source Hardware Association, and this year will be the sixth conference, maintaining its focus on open hardware.
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The API Evangelist has spoken
Kin Lane is on a mission to educate the world about the transformative potential of APIs. He has a message for you, too
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An Interesting Interview About The Vulkan API
Neil Trevett, the President of the Khronos Group, did an interview recently about the Vulkan API as the future of graphics programming.
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The Future of Graphics Programming: The Vulkan API
The Khronos Group announced a few months ago the Vulkan API, a project aimed at replacing OpenGL, and starting from a clean slate in terms of graphics programming. We had the opportunity to have a chat with Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, to talk about the future!
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Khronos To Soon Open-Source Initial SPIR-V LLVM Work
One of the big things we've been looking forward to with SPIR-V is the to/from LLVM IR pass in order to open up the possibilities for this new industry-standard intermediate representation to be used by Vulkan and OpenCL. Some code will soon be opened up, but it's not the end game.
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