"In her Texas Linux Fest keynote, Joan Touzet talked to us about how to improve our open source communities. Joan's talk was a series of stories about communities who have faced a crisis and then rose above it."
""Showing the total economic value of free/libre and open source software helps move from the perception of free software being community theater, and clearly shows it is professional," said Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism Computer. "The benefit for software developers is that they can point to cash value for their software released under free licenses.""
"What is Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) in education and how can we get more students involved? HFOSS is Open Source software that has a humanitarian purpose such as disaster management, health care, economic development, social services, and more. Experience with undergraduate participation in HFOSS shows it can both motivate students and provide excellent learning opportunities. There is also an indication that it can help attract and retain female students."
"The design of everyday things is an important cultural movement. Of that, most of us have no doubt. We want our tools to work flawlessly and naturally. And open source projects are catching up on this too."
"Erin Richey , CenturyLink
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If you still think open source technology is less reliable than proprietary software, or less secure, it's time to learn more about the private sector's digital revolution."
"Arne Rogde Gramstad
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Students
February 5, 2016
Abstract:
The open-source software operating system Linux is a free-of-charge substitute to proprietary systems like Microsoft Windows. By using a cross-country data set, this paper finds evidence that increased piracy of proprietary software has a negative impact on adoption of desktop versions of Linux. The interpretation of this result is that the availability of pirated versions of Windows leads to fewer individuals installing a Linux operating system on their desktop computers. Thus, in the absence of software piracy, Linux would be a more widely used operating system.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 11
Keywords: Open-source software, software piracy, intellectual property
JEL Classification: L11, L17, O34"
"Trying to track a complex project without drowning in too much information is still a challenge for many of us. To solve this, we developed OpenProject, a web-based open source project management tool that supports teams throughout the entire project life cycle. It is licensed under GNU GPLv3 and written in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. "
"Cuando Netscape liberó el código fuente de su navegador web en 1998, parecía un movimiento desesperado por una empresa asediada por Microsoft, que terminó vendida un año después a AOL. Actualmente, no pasa una semana sin que una empresa de tecnología anuncie el lanzamiento de una nueva plataforma, aplicación o extensión, junto a su código fuente, bajo licencia libre Open Source."
"What can we do to make this better so that more people can turn to their public library to learn about open source software, hardware, and principles?"
"Phil Shapiro
There are many ways to contribute to an open source project. There are also many reasons for doing so. But before jumping in, you might want to know how things generally work within these projects."
"Our IT organization is continuing to evolve as we engage more in open source. Whether it be what we use for distributed processing, for databases, or to accelerate our compute power or data visualization, we continue to expand the number of open technologies we explore."
"In open source software, if you contribute enough patches to the code base, most projects will make you a committer. I guess I shouldn't be surprised then that when you write enough articles for Opensource.com, they give you your own column."
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* About the UNESCO OER Community
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"There is a civic hacker in you! He or she is in there... I promise! Today, technology has evolved into a perfect storm of open source tools, code, social networks, and lots of data. Civic technologists thrive on all of these getting together with like-minded hackers and turning all these sources into useful applications, websites and visualizations."
"There is a civic hacker in you! He or she is in there... I promise! Today, technology has evolved into a perfect storm of open source tools, code, social networks, and lots of data. Civic technologists thrive on all of these getting together with like-minded hackers and turning all these sources into useful applications, websites and visualizations."