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Docker is an open source engine that enables any application to be deployed as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. By delivering on the twin promises "Build Once…Run Anywhere” and “Configure Once…Run Anything," Docker has seen explosive growth, and its impact is being seen across devops, PaaS, scale-out, hybrid cloud and other environments that need a lightweight alternative to traditional virtualization."
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Six years ago, Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom launched CASH Music, a nonprofit with the express goal of building open-source tools to help musicians reach their audience—and make a living. Vail originally cut her teeth at the Kill Rock Stars label, while von Doom’s background was in web development. Both wanted to streamline the musician-to-audience experience. And so they made the CASH (which stands for Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) platform open-source, allowing artists and labels to build networks in their own unique and flexible ways.
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Many see open source technology as an ideological tool -- a way to promote freedom in a world of closed, proprietary systems. For Canonical's Jono Bacon, Mozilla's Stormy Peters and Wikimedia's Tomasz Finc, it's more about improving humanity. Speaking at Expand, they argued that open code connects the developing world and delivers meaningful local content. However, the trio is also aware of the potential pitfalls, such as fragmentation. They know that a successful open platform isn't born overnight.
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Anshu Sharma explains how Open Source Software, the kind of Software that’s freely available in Source Code form, generates lots of value but little revenue. He references the book Co-opetition by Harvard Business Professor Adam Brandenburger and Yale Management Professor Barry Nalebuff, which is about how to balance Cooperation and Competition in Business to gain the benefits of both. Open Source Software originates from the work of volunteers who want to share their work with others for the benefit of the community as a whole. Vendors like Red Hat and Novell build pre-configured Open Source solutions for businesses. Because of low barriers of entry in the Open Source Vendor game, prices are kept low. Ashnu notes that “And this is exactly what game theory predicts- in a market with low barriers to entry it is hard to charge premium prices and make profits over an extended period of time.”
Companies like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook have been leveraging Open Source solutions to their own benefit. Even those who don’t benefit from Open Source directly benefit from the competitive pressure put on companies like Microsoft. Ashnu mentions that “the value added by open-source to the customers is not equal to the value added by open-source vendors” and that the low barriers of entry make it so that the potentially infinite pool of competitors divide the money going into Open Source solutions, so no single behemoth is reaping all the profit. He suggests that “You are much less likely to succeed by entering the game as a vendor. Your gains are much larger if you can leverage the low cost of open-source software to provide new services to the customer- consumer or businesses”.
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Legal questions are at the heart of what openness is about, and there has always been interest at the Open Knowledge Foundation in open legislation – both in theory and in practice. Remarkable projects have been started around the world in open lobbying and open law data. - See more at: http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/15/open-legislation-working-group-relaunched-at-okcon/#sthash.vStWVWlC.EOcyVGBu.dpuf
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One Community is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization creating open source and free-shared solutions for all aspects of a sustainable civilization.
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- The upcyled „asap-island" is an open-source DIY floating island and eventually a low-tech solution for floods and sealevel rise worldwide.
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The good news in international development is that more children have access to schooling than in recent history, but the problem is that many do not reach their full developmental potential. While there are certainly myraid reasons for this failure to thrive, one social entrepreneur named Marcus Veerman has proposed a seemingly simple solution: increased play. According to Veerman, play is an essential learning tool that leads to better concentration and school attendance, among other benefits. The question is how to give children around the world regular and easy access to play.
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Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.
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This is a story about how to run a company, but more specifically, how to run a company that embraces open-source culture--and how the seemingly counter-intuitive principles behind open-source culture seem to be good for GitHub, which is growing quickly, and also apparently just good for its product. And its marketing. And its hiring strategy. And its culture.
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So to answer the question “is Android OS upgradable? YES! Android OS is upgradable. But Why am I not getting the updates?Is there other ways to get updates?
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After realizing that I was seeing the same name at the heads of papers and projects that I was a big fan of – the Open Source Optics Library, 3D Printers for Peace, and a paper on the cost savings of the use of RepRap 3D printers in the home – I decided that Dr. Joshua Pearce was quickly becoming a hero of mine and that I wanted to interview him
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Free Open Source Software Academia (FOSSA) is celebrating 50 years in 2013! WIKISPEED, as an open source project, is giving back to the landscape of open source work. Even more importantly, projects like WIKISPEED build on all the open source tools that have been build up to make distributed, collaborative projects like this affordable to anyone with passion and about 2 hours a week!
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GigaOM: The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future.
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Can we apply the principles of open source technology to manufacturing, to help usher in a new economic frontier? The people's economy?
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David Bollier discusses the launch of a major strategic research project to "fundamentally re-imagine Ecuador" based on the principles of open networks, peer production, and commoning by the government of Ecuador.
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Pieter Stoutjesdijk's shelter is a digitally fabricated structure whose interlocking pieces can be assembled into an actual home in less than five hours.
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Intel's Galileo open-source computer for the hacker and do-it-yourself crowd can now be ordered for US$69.90, and is scheduled to ship at the end of November.
Richard Platt's curator insight,
December 14, 2013 2:44 AM
We really like Galielo, it has Quark on it, and this is purpose built for the DIY crowd, we think this is very smart move on Intel's part, essentially creating an open innovation platform for all to use.
And according to my sources the pet project of the CEO Brian Krzanich apparently with much resistance internally to go do it initially,.
To us at the S+IG this is an easy to place bet, in fact plain smart, who else has one out there? No one. which demonstrates vision where others have not, and committment to go against the grain to do the right thing and to explore options and ask the larger community to go do it. We commend Brian Krzanich for doing this, we see this as an excellent example of setting a new standard in the IoT space.. We are reminded of our days in desktop operations when Intel built the majority of the motherboards out there, and everyone bought from Intel, and I mean everyone.
Who else is setting a new standard that people can get behind with technology that goes all the way to the silicon level and can integrate it into a killer platform?
Richard Platt's curator insight,
December 14, 2013 2:52 AM
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We really like Galileo, it has Quark on it, and this is purpose built for the DIY crowd, we think this is very smart move on Intel's part, essentially creating an open innovation platform for all to use.
And according to my sources the pet project of the CEO Brian Krzanich apparently with much resistance internally to go do it initially,.
To us at the S+IG this is an easy to place bet, in fact plain smart, who else has one out there? No one. which demonstrates vision where others have not, and commitment to go against the grain to do the right thing and to explore options and ask the larger community to go do it. We commend Brian Krzanich for doing this, we see this as an excellent example of setting a new standard in the IoT space.. We are reminded of our days in desktop operations when Intel built the majority of the motherboards out there, and everyone bought from Intel, and I mean everyone.
Who else is setting a new standard that people can get behind with technology that goes all the way to the silicon level and can integrate it into a killer platform?
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For almost four years now Adolfo and I have been carrying out fieldwork among various free culture and open-source communities in Madrid, including new media and digital artists, engineers, cultural brokers, architectural collectives, 15M assemblies, etc. Ever since the occupation of Sol on May 15, there is an increasingly shared perception among many of these groups that something very special is taking root in the city: amidst widespread precariousness and crisis, a vibrant, emerging culture of guerrilla and experimental urbanism is taking shape.
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For the latest episode of our Meet The Founders interviews we are releasing today the intervivew we made recently with WIkihouse funder Alastair Parvin.
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The demand for floating islands rises with the sealevels. Let´s build a low-budget island out of trash and bamboo, then share the island + manual with the world
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Imagine a room full of robotic machines, making parts to be used to build a next generation of robots.
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It's easier than ever to start your open source project building a physical product and keep everyone involved up to date. Here's how... (Open source is important in hardware as well as software - here are some tips to make your project a success.
Christer Gundersen's curator insight,
October 24, 2013 3:37 PM
Her er 5 tips for de som sitter å vurderer å starte et fri progrmvareprosjekt. |
