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Free Software/Open Source



  • Can the FOSS community save 197 endangered languages?
    In India, the situation is not different. I searched the Language Atlas of UNESCO and found out that 197 Indian languages are endangered. One of these endangered languages is from the region from where I originally belong: Bihar, a state of India. I work in the free and open source software (FOSS) field, focused on localization. The language I do my work in is Hindi. I've also worked in Maithili, an Indian language, mentoring the community and help develop several applications in it, including Fedora, GNOME, KDE , and Firefox.


  • Adobe Partners With Google To Release Open-Source Font For Chinese, Japanese And Korean Languages


  • Portland company unveils new tool as open source community converges on Rose City
    Local startup GraphAlchemist is hoping to tap into some of that excitement. The data visualization company has tools for corporate customers to visualize data sets and map connections, and now it is releasing a version called Alchemy.js that will allow people to get a taste of the product.


  • How open source can solve Silicon Valley's engineering crisis
    Silicon Valley may think itself the center of the universe, but when it comes to open source, it can only muster a third-place finish. According to an analysis of top GitHub contributors, both Europe and the rest of the United States develop more open-source software than Silicon Valley. While this may not be surprising given Europe's long-standing affection for open source, it is a reminder that much of the best development talent doesn't live along Highway 101 and probably never will.


  • Events



  • Web Browsers



  • SaaS/Big Data



  • CMS



    • Cloud, open source power TransLink's Web presence
      It was an aging bespoke application that drove TransLink to seek a new content management system, but it was the strength of the community surrounding the open source project that helped the Queensland public transport agency choose Drupal.

      Prior to the switch to Drupal, which began last year, the former TransLink site was partly based on static files and partly on a "home-grown CMS that managed a lot of our custom content such as service disruption and events, so that we could do a little bit of distributed authoring within the organisation," said Natalie Gorring, manager, online products and services, at TransLink.




  • Business



  • Funding



    • Crowdfunding for open source software
      Nowadays when people say “crowdfunding,” most people know exactly it is, but just a few short years ago, the term was not commonly used. Bountysource is easy to explain now: it is a crowdfunding site aimed at open source software developers, but a decade ago, people just were not sure what it was or how it worked. Even the founders said the project died quickly because people were unsure of its intentions.




  • BSD



    • FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Announcement
      The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and introduces some new features.




  • FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC



    • GCC 4.9.1 Released
      GCC 4.9.1 release supports OpenMP 4.0 also in Fortran, rather than just in C and C++.




  • Openness/Sharing



    • Open-Source Will Make Real-Time Measurements Affordable
      From my earliest days in measurement, the term "real-time" has been special. Its meaning has evolved over these years as a figure of merit without any actual figures being presented. But the use has continually increased as a way of denoting the presence of data as it occurs.


    • Open source biology
      At O’Reilly, we’ve long been supporters of the open source movement — perhaps not with the religious fervor of some, but with a deep appreciation for how open source has transformed the computing industry over the last three decades.


    • Open Hardware



      • Apeiros Arduino Based Open Source Robot (video)
        Students, makers and developers that are in the market for an open source robot might be interested in a new Arduino-based robot called Apeiros.


      • Social Circle: Improving social interaction at social events
        The prototype we created of the designed solution, is composed of an Arduino controlling six player boards with voting buttons and LEDs which it reads. The Arduino is connected to a virtual interface showed on a 19″ screen in the middle of the table. Players receive harmless question such as “Which player would be the best superhero?” and everyone then place a vote on each other using the player boards. Votes are then revealed and points are given to the agreeing majority. If players votes indicate disagreement, a discussion round is started where players have to persuade each other to vote differently.








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