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Roland Gesthuizen

Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone's building open-source software | ZDNet - 0 views

  • Gartner reported that on average, 29% of deployed code was open source, and that by 2015 at least 95% of mainstream IT organizations will leverage open source solutions within mission critical software deployments
  • “Open collaborative development via communities is widely understood and accepted, and corporate IT organizations are realizing that these characteristics can be applied to improve their internal development as well, and many are looking to apply them to enhance their own internal methods, typically in conjunction with adopting agile or lean methodologies.”
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    "Zemlin said that all successful tech companies are now using and contributing to open source communities. "Besides the usual suspects--Amazon, Google, IBM-- there are companies that you may not think of as being big open-source companies, even competitors, now admit that they must participate in open source."
Roland Gesthuizen

Think twice before using Twitter as a data source » Nieman Journalism Lab - 0 views

  • All that’s not to say that Twitter’s not incredibly useful as a data source
  • Just be aware of its limits and be careful about assuming what it produces represents any larger reality
  • different versions of Twitter data can return different — sometimes even mutually contradictory — results
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    "At Source, Jacob Harris notes that, as appealing as the Twitter API may be as a source of what-people-are-thinking data, it's hardly perfect. Twitter's demographics aren't representative of either Internet users as a whole or the broader population, and geocoding data is sparse and inconsistent. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Transfer Google+ connections between accounts - Google+ Help - 0 views

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    To transfer your Google+ circles and other connections between accounts, click Google+ circles transfer tool at Google Takeout. This tool transfers your Google+ circles and connections from a "source" account to a "destination" account. It also replaces your source profile with your destination profile in other people's circles.
Roland Gesthuizen

Software Freedom Day - Melbourne - 2 views

  • Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. “Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.” — Software Freedom Day vision statement
  • Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. “Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.” — Software Freedom Day vision statement The day will feature a wide selection of inspiring presentations and interactive workshops. We welcome participants of all ages or experience levels. Many software-related community groups will also be exhibiting their projects. This is a great way to meet others and learn a little more about these important issues.
  • The day will feature a wide selection of inspiring presentations and interactive workshops. We welcome participants of all ages or experience levels. Many software-related community groups will also be exhibiting their projects. This is a great way to meet others and learn a little more about these important issues.
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    Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. "Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable." - Software Freedom Day vision statement
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    Great Melbourne 2010 event worth noting in your diary and passing on.
Roland Gesthuizen

Zenoss Community - Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management - 0 views

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    "Zenoss Core is free and open source software for monitoring applications, networks, servers and much more."
John Pearce

Where does the information come from? Information Source Use Patterns of Wikipedia - 0 views

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    "Little is known about Wikipedia contributors' information behaviour and from where and how the information in the encyclopaedia originated...... Understanding the information source use of contributors helps us to understand how new Wikipedia articles emerge, how edits are motivated, where the information actually comes from and more generally, what kind of information may be expected to be found in Wikipedia. "
Roland Gesthuizen

livecode.com | Download - 0 views

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    "Create your own apps and utilities using LiveCode Community Edition. This full featured programming environment allows you to create open source apps for all major platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and Server. Download it completely free and start making your ideas come to life. "
Roland Gesthuizen

BBC News - School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme - 1 views

  • "Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he said.
  • "Children are being forced to learn how to use applications, rather than to make them. They are becoming slaves to the user interface and are totally bored by it,"
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    The current programme of information and communications technology (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the education secretary has announced. It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming designed with the help of universities and industry.
Roland Gesthuizen

OSV Education FOSS Catalog | Creative Contingencies Pty. Ltd. - 0 views

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    "Free Software for Schools is a catalogue of open source computer programs for teaching and learning. The catalog is organised by the following categories, and contains an index that lists the name of each program listed."
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    Good catalgue of educational software, much of it free to download and share.
Roland Gesthuizen

Video: Face-Off-Moodle v. Blackboard - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "Moodle, the open-source software for managing courses, is gaining ground on Blackboard, the best-selling commercial system. Leaders from both software projects discuss coming features, including better interfaces for smartphones and integration with other education software."
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    Good video comparing these two leading products for managing online courses.
Roland Gesthuizen

Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia | ZDNet - 0 views

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    "This plea doesn't apply to the teachers (or administrators, for that matter) who have figured out that Wikipedia is an incredible knowledge store, cornucopia of primary sources, and go-to site for most the free world. Rather, this plea is for those who, instead of teaching students about Internet site credibility, fact checking, verification, and crowdsourcing, choose to simply prohibit the use of Wikipedia."
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    Interesting blog post that explains the sillyness behind filtering Wikipedia from students doing classroom research.
Roland Gesthuizen

The OpenNMS Project - 0 views

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    "OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management application platform developed under the open source model. It was designed from "day one" to monitor tens of thousands to ultimately unlimited devices with a single instance. It brings the power, scalability and flexibility that enterprises and carriers demand."
John Pearce

SearchTeam - real-time collaborative search engine - 0 views

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    SearchTeam is a collaborative search engine. You start your research by creating a SearchSpace on a topic of interest. From within a SearchSpace, you can search the Web, videos, images, books and more. You can find and save only what you want while you are searching and throw away what you don't want or find irrelevant. You can automatically organize what you save, into folders of your choosing. Everything is automatically saved into your personal account, and you can return to your searches any time and continue from where you left before. What makes SearchTeam unique and valuable is that you can do your searches collaboratively with others you trust, such as friends, colleagues and family members. You can invite any set of people you trust to search with you from within a SearchSpace. An invitation is sent via email to those people you invite to join your search. When they enter your SearchSpace, they see exactly what you've found and saved so far. They can comment on or like your findings. They can chat with you from within the SearchSpace, and do further searches relevant to that topic and save more results into the SearchSpace. All changes made by any collaborator are relayed to all other collaborators in real-time, so everyone is instantly in synch with what others are doing. In addition to finding and saving search results, SearchTeam goes further to enable you to enrich your SearchSpace with knowledge that may come from other sources. You can upload documents to a SearchSpace to share your relevant reports / presentations etc. You can also add links to Web resources that you may have received from others via email or social networks. You can even create new posts to share your knowledge on the topic directly inside the SearchSpace. Together, as a team, you can leverage the collective effort to find good quality information, and benefit from the collective knowledge on any topic efficiently. In effect, SearchTeam is traditional Web searching + Wiki-like editi
Roland Gesthuizen

Home » LibreOffice - 1 views

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    "LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base."
Roland Gesthuizen

Greenshot - a free and open source screenshot tool for productivity - 0 views

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    "Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features: Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer." "
Roland Gesthuizen

What the Heck Happened to NASA.gov? | NASA - 0 views

  • Related content should be more effectively presented together. Multimedia and social media should be more tightly integrated with web content, while respecting the different preferences of social-media and web audiences.
  • We've moved to an open-source content-management system, a new content-delivery network and a new data center.
  • he navigation buttons are gone from the NASA Home Page. The topics are still there in the "Popular Topics" drop-down menu to the right of the main news stories. We moved them there to make more space for live events.
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    "Notice anything different? To start with, we've got a refreshed look, lightening the site's color palette. We hope this will address some of the complaints we've had about clutter and the page being hard to navigate visually. But that's just the beginning."
Roland Gesthuizen

Linux News: Community: LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Part Deux - 0 views

  • "If you are like me, you prefer LibreOffice over (Apache) OpenOffice because (1) It has a better open source license. (2) It has more community support. (3) It is more rapidly developing and releasing updates," the post innocently begins.
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    Indeed, with 325 active committers over the last 12 months, LibreOffice is now the third-largest free software project listed on Ohloh focused on the development of a desktop application, Behrens said, following only Firefox and Chrome.
Roland Gesthuizen

Eaglehawk SC - Professional Development + E-Team - FUSE - Department of Education and E... - 0 views

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    Eaglehawk SC have harnessed the enthusiasm and skills of their students to form a vibrant and highly trained student team.
John Pearce

Facebook vs Twitter Infographic - DigitalSurgeons.com - 1 views

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    This is an interesting breakdown of the 2010 stats related to Facebook vs Twitter.
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