Leftovers: OSS
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Open source software and the sharing economy
Open source software is arguably one of the foundation stones of the collaborative economy and, as many trailblazers are, is a controversial topic.
Even its name has been subject to heated discussions. Whether a program is called “Free Software”, “Free and open source software (FOSS)” or “open source software (OSS)” has always been (and to a certain extent still is) an indication of the personal view of the motivations, ideologies, philosophical views etc. behind the specific development and distribution model.
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OpenFace Open Source Real Time Facial Recognition Software Demonstrated (video)
This week researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have Release the demonstration video of a new open source facial recognition program based on Google’s FaceNet research, which has been named OpenFace.
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Tracksoar Open Source APRS Tracker Hits Kickstarter (video)
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Secret source code pronounces you guilty as charged
The results from a Pennsylvania company's TrueAllele DNA testing software have been used in roughly 200 criminal cases, from California to Florida, helping put murderers and rapists in prison.
Criminal defense lawyers, however, want to know whether it's junk science.
Defense attorneys have routinely asked, and have been denied, access to examine the software's 170,000 lines of source code in a bid to challenge the authenticity of its conclusions. The courts generally have agreed with Cybergenetics, the company behind TrueAllele, that an independent examination of the code is unwarranted, that the code is a proprietary trade secret, and disclosing it could destroy the company financially.
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Apache HTTP Web Server Gets HTTP2
The era of HTTP/2 is now here, with both browsers and web servers supporting the next generation of the HTTP protocol that powers the modern web.
The new Apache HTTP 2.4.17 release this week now includes the mod_http2 module providing HTTP/2 support. The basic syntax to enable HTTP/2, is about as easy at it gets - H2Direct on|off
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Google Offers Web-Based Data Analytics with Open Source Tool
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IBM Brings Bluemix to China Amid Source Code Sharing Reports
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New pressure on US tech to comply with China's access demands
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IBM gives China sneak peek of software source code: Report
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Concurrent to open-source its caching solution
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3 misperceptions women have about computer science
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ONF completes first wireless transport SDN proof of concept
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ONF says 2016 will be year of northbound interface
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Open Networking Foundation Completes Industry’s First Wireless Transport SDN Proof of Concept
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Open Networking Foundation Predicts That 2016 Will Be the Year of the Northbound Interface
SDN AND OPENFLOW WORLD CONGRESS– The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today unveiled its annual set of networking industry predictions for 2016, predicting that 2016 will be the year of the Northbound Interface (NBI). The predictions were delivered by ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt during his keynote remarks at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Open source has reach, but no influence
Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms:
Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible power a single company has over so many independent publishers. Apple would love to push us into reading via the News App (built on open source!) using Webkit (built on open source!).
Facebook is trying to get publishers to write directly for their Pages platform (built on open source!), rather than on the independent web.
Android is the world’s largest mobile platform (built on open source!), but have you seen what happens to phone manufacturers who don’t play by Google’s rules? -
Goodbye XPRIZE, Hello GitHub
Something Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat said to me a while back was that coming from Delta to Red Hat, and thus outside of Open Source into Open Source, helped him to realize how special the Open Source culture and mindset is.
Likewise, while I never left Open Source, moving to XPRIZE was stepping back from the flame somewhat, and it helped me to see the kindness, creativity, agility, and energy that so many of us in the Open Source world take for granted.
As such, despite the rewarding nature of my work at XPRIZE, I decided that I wanted to get back closer to technology. There was a caveat though: I still wanted to be able to play a role in furthering the efficacy and impact of how we as human beings collaborate and build communities to do incredible things.
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18F to use micro-purchasing for open source code in new experiment
The General Service Administration's innovation team 18F will soon use its "micro-purchase" authority to buy open source code for applications being developed by the group.
Open source application development has been a core offering of the organization, which believes collaborative, community development results in a better overall product.
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Open Source Node.js Matures, Courts the Enterprise
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Node.js adds long-term enterprise support version
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Midokura to Present on Open Source Networking at All Things Open 2015
Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, today announced that Susan Wu, director of technical marketing, will present at the All Things Open 2015 conference, taking place October 19-20, 2015, in Raleigh, NC. Her session will cover the use of open source networking and load balancing as a service (LBaaS) to support open cloud platforms, such as OpenStack.
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The mavericks of Big Data
Ten years ago when Pentaho Corp. was founded, Big Data was barely a gleam in the tech world’s eye. Chuck Yarbrough, director of Big Data, product marketing of Pentaho, joined Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts from theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about those early days.
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More code in ‘the wild': Open source the key to Pentaho’s success
Embedded analytics has become Pentaho Corp.’s cornerstone offering at all levels of the market. Gretchen Moran, director of engineering services at Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company, joined Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during PentahoWorld 2015 to talk about how open source enabled the company’s success.
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Google removes “OK Google” hotword from Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux
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Google unveils Chrome 46 for Windows, Mac, Linux
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Google Launches Chrome 46 Compatible To Windows, Linux and Mac
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Google dumps Chrome's notification center on Windows, Linux, and Mac
Google will soon make a significant change to Chrome—one that you probably won’t notice. On Wednesday, Google announced that an upcoming Chrome release will remove the notification center in Windows, Mac, and Linux. The notification center will remain in Chrome OS, however.
If you don’t know what Chrome’s notification center is, open Chrome on Windows and then click the upward facing arrow on the far right of the taskbar. See that little bell icon? That’s notification center.
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Mozilla Study Highlights Need for Tech Education in Developing World
Mozilla, which has steadily been expanding its focus out from the Firefox browser to mobile phone and device usage, has released the results of a very far reaching study on mobile device usage in the developing world. Among other findings, it concretely establishes that education and learning resources are needed in places where mobile devices and the Internet are just taking root.
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Firefox 41.0.2 Brings A Bunch Of Changes
As you may know, Mozilla Firefox is among the most popular internet browsers available, being very appreciated by FOSS users.
The latest version available is Firefox 41.0.2, bringing regression fixes and security updates only.
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Firejail – A Security Sandbox for Mozilla Firefox, Part 3
In August, Mozilla was notified by security researcher Cody Crews that a malicious advertisement on a Russian news site was exploiting a vulnerability in Firefox’s PDF Viewer. The exploit payload searched for sensitive files on users’ local filesystem, and reportedly uploaded them to a server in Ukraine.
I am proud to say Firejail users were protected! The default Firejail configuration blocked access to .ssh, .gnupg and .filezilla in all directories present under /home, while more advanced configurations blocked everything else.
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Newest OpenStack® Release Expands Services for Software-Defined Networking, Container Management and Large Deployments
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OpenStack Liberty release features enhancements for SDN and containers
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What’s new in OpenStack Liberty? Open source cloud platform adds container support, changes governance model
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OpenStack releases 12th edition of its cloud platform
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OpenStack Liberty release intros ‘Big Tent’ governance model
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OpenStack celebrates Liberty
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All in the name of Liberty: OpenStack 12 set free!
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OpenStack Liberty ushers in new features, new governance
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OpenStack Liberty arrives with enhancements for scalability and containers
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OpenStack Libery Arrives, Includes Container Smarts
It was all the way back in 2010, when we at OStatic first did a short post on an emerging open source cloud computing platform called OpenStack. "The open platform will go head-to-head with cloud platforms from VMware and Microsoft, and will likely compete with other open source cloud platfroms such as Eucalyptus Systems'," we noted at the time.
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OpenStack Liberty Enhances Open Source Cloud Networking, Containers
Liberty, the newest release of the OpenStack open source cloud operating system, is out this week. It brings a host of new features, as well as a revamp of OpenStack's governance model.
The full list of new features in OpenStack Liberty is so extensive that it comprises a long list with 17 individual sections, each filled with specific information about driver updates, API changes and so on.
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Will Spark replace MapReduce?
As analytics accelerate closer to real-time, historical analytics are not being displaced. The benefits of a comprehensive and historic view of data is becoming more than just a daydream. Imagine a problem with a fleet of vehicles. Would current information and stats be the only aspect an analyst might look at? Wouldn’t the history of the whole fleet factor in? Only when viewed together can we see the entire context.
Integrations in this fashion are the focus of the innovation arm of Pentaho Corp., according to Will Gorman, VP of Pentaho Labs at Pentaho Corp.
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What It Means For Investors That Oracle Has Become A 'Me-Too Company'
With declining market share in the database business, Oracle lacks a real flagship product.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant: Open Source, Cloud Disrupt Database Market
Incumbents IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have ruled the Gartner Magic Quadrant for operational database management systems for years. But with the rise of open source and cloud, new competition has gained ground. Here's what you need to know.
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Crunchy Data Solutions Announces Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL; Expected To Become First Commercially Available Open Source Database To Receive Common Criteria Certification
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Coding and digital skills
Take, for example, the question ‘How does Google work?’. In CS, or foundations, terms, this is about big data, the Page Rank algorithm, caching and indexing. In IT (applications) terms, there’s typing your query and clicking the button, but also using advanced queries, filtering results, checking sources and dates and so on. In terms of digital literacy (implications) we’d want to talk about the data built up about each user, filter bubbles, targeted pay per click advertising, possible over-reliance on one source for information and about employing smart, creative people.
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Pentaho: the 'traditional' industries 'get' IoT analytics first
Pentaho has had a busy week -- the firm has had its first week out in full public scrutiny as the new Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company and staged its second annual PentahoWorld customer, partner, user & developer event.
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GCC: Bringing More Open Source Software to IBM i
One of the more interesting parts of last week's IBM i announcements (if easily overlooked) was the introduction of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to the platform. As IBM's product manager for the IBM i explained last week, the addition of GCC essentially opens the door to bringing a wide range of open source packaged applications to the IBM i environment, and provides a key building block for IBM moving forward.
During his October 5 webcast on the COMMON Europe website (which you can view below), IBM i product manager Tim Rowe discussed the importance of open source software to IBM i, and what it means for the platform's future.
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X2CRM Releases Version 5.3 of Its Open-Source CRM Software
This release, like all X2CRM versions, is available as an open-source CRM application as well as in two commercial versions available in both cloud and download editions.
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X2CRM Releases Version 5.3 of Its Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software - Adds New Workflow Splitter, Google+ Connector and AWS Cloud Features
X2CRM is fully internationalized and has been installed on over 24,000 public and private cloud servers across 160+ countries.
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[OpenBSD 5.8] released
The current release is OpenBSD 5.8, released Oct 18, 2015 which is the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD source tree.
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vBSDcon 2015 Recap
Last weekend, the 2nd vBSDCon was hosted in Reston, Virginia by Verisign and several iX employees were in attendance. A big thanks to Dru Lavigne, Kris Moore, and Michael Dexter for sharing their experiences at the show with us.
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Recap of Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: October 16
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CiviCRM: a key part of the free software movement
At the CiviCRM User Summit on the weekend of September 24th, I got to meet the faces behind the software that powers the Free Software Foundation's communication. CiviCRM is the leading free software CRM (constituent relationship management) software, and it's central to our work at the FSF: it sends every email we write and receives every petition signature and every donation you send us.
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Diversity, transparency and sharing data at GoDaddy
Workforce diversity has become a huge point of discussion in the tech world, with the benefits of diversity being demonstrated every day. Still, tech companies have found it difficult to reach their targets for diversity because there are few role models to show how it’s done. One of those model companies is GoDaddy, who have shown a strong commitment to diversity and women in the tech workforce.
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Wikimedia renews Public Policy site
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation — which is responsible for the Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikimedia and other Wiki* projects — launched its renewed Public Policy website. On the site, the foundation presents five policy areas that it says are most important for its mission and projects: access, censorship, copyright, intermediary protection, and privacy. These enable the Wikimedia community to push for "policies to allow people around the world to access, create, share, and remix free knowledge."
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OECD urges Lithuanian government to be more open
The Lithuanian government should improve the debate and dialogue with both governmental and non-governmental actors. It should increase citizen engagement in law making, policy making and service delivery. And it should improve its eGovernment strategies and implementations. These are the recommendations from the recently published OECD report 'Lithuania: Fostering Open and Inclusive Policy Making'.
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GPL enforcement, ONOS partners with Linux Foundation, and more news
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How to differentiate a passive and an active Open Government policy
Alberto Albella, president of the OKFN (Open Knowledge Foundation) Spanish Chapter, has outlined some best practices to understand what an active Open Government is about.
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How to promote open data in government through peer learning
This is especially true for those in governments around the world tasked with promoting open data, data that anyone can access, use and share. “Open data leaders often need to address very real fears from their colleagues and bosses,” said Emma Truswell, services business manager at the Open Data Institute. “These include national security, privacy concerns, the risk of embarrassment to the administration, and concerns about the quality of data.”
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Italian makers take Felfil Evo open source 3D printer filament extruder to Kickstarter
Despite all the making freedom it gives us, we in the 3D printing community are still slaves of the filament manufacturers. And as everyone knows, those rolls can get expensive. This is exactly why more and more people are turning to desktop filament extruders, that turn very cheap pellets (usually a sixth of the price of filament) into perfectly 3D printable filament. In essence, creating your own 3D printer filaments not only helps save users money, but it also brings them closer to the 3D printing experience as a whole. Earlier this year, Italian startup Collettivo Cocomeri had already released the very interesting and open source Fefil extruder, but have now appeared on Kickstarter with an improved (and much better looking) version: the Felfil Evo, a cheap and excellent option for those thinking about cutting out the filament middle man.
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Fantastic open source 3D printable Hovalin acoustic violin unveiled by Kaitlyn and Matt Hova
We’ve already seen plenty of fantastic examples of what 3D printing can do when put in the hands of musicians over the last year or so, from this playful 3D printed beer bottle instrument to this seriously cool 3D printed guitar. Unfortunately, few of the high quality creations are capable of matching a store-bought instrument while also being available to a wider audience. Fortunately, the Hova couple have decided to do something about that. Husband and wife Kaitlyn and Matt Hova have recently shared their open source, 3D printable and very high quality Hovalin acoustic violin, and encourage everyone to recreate it themselves.
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Former Omaha residents develop 3-D printable ‘Hovalin’
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R vs Python: head to head data analysis
There have been dozens of articles written comparing Python and R from a subjective standpoint. We’ll add our own views at some point, but this article aims to look at the languages more objectively. We’ll analyze a dataset side by side in Python and R, and show what code is needed in both languages to achieve the same result. This will let us understand the strengths and weaknesses of each language without the conjecture. At Dataquest, we teach both languages, and think both have a place in a data science toolkit.
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PHP version 5.6.15RC1
Release Candidate versions are available in remi-test repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS) to allow more people to test them. They are only available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, perfect solution for such tests.
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Perl SIG: Another pile of perl subpackages and perl(:VERSION) introduction
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The Great Paradox of Openness
...stressed the importance of saving government documents using open formats.
I mean, this young woman showed evident command of her data and was, in no way, an incompetent speaker. The sad reality was that, however persuasive her words were, they contrasted sharply with the way in which her speech started. How can you advocate open formats and, at the same time, ignore how to use LibreOffice?
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'EU institutions remain unaware of document policy'
The vast majority of EU officials who publish documents online are oblivious to the EU’s open document formats policy. One year after the launch of the ‘FixMyDocuments’ campaign, advocates of open document formats conclude the policy is perceived as unimportant. “There is a huge lack of awareness”, says campaign organiser Maël Brunet. “Maintainers show little interest to fix documents.”
“EU institutions are not living up to their 2010 commitment to support open document formats”, says Brunet, director of European Policy at OpenForum Europe.
Lack of awareness, lack of time and the perceived unimportance are the main reasons that EU officials do not fix documents after being contacted by the FixMyDocuments campaign, Brunet says.
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