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F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
By Jon Dron 22 January 2018 @ 4:28pmhttps://f-droid.org/en/ - I don't know about you, but I am getting increasingly bothered about the vast numbers of dubious permissions, unwanted tracking ads, and risky bits of software available via Google's App Store. F-Droid is a fully open source replacement for the...Reddit no longer (quite) open source
By Jon Dron 5 September 2017 @ 4:31pm Comments (2)www.reddit.com - Reddit has released its underlying software as open source since it began but is now stepping away from it - a bit. The reasons are interesting: "Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video...Learning from mistakes - A GitLab story
By Viorel Tabara 1 February 2017 @ 9:36pmhttps://goo.gl/yeDsFl - An excellent lessons learned material for any syadmin, but especially for those with a taste for PostgreSQL, that came into my inbox from the folks at CommandPrompt.When IRC may not be enough. Maybe?
By Viorel Tabara 27 December 2016 @ 7:09pm Comments (8)omnirom.org - A good summary on what Mattermost (the open source alternative to Slack) can offer to distributed groups. Worth mentioning though, there are bigger open source projects that work well on IRC, one example would be Fedora Linux.Hackers vs Crackers
By Viorel Tabara 24 November 2016 @ 10:53pmstallman.org - There is a misconception about hackers. Richard Stallman is one of them. And so are all the people who wrote the computer programs that make up today's Open Source ecosystem. It's not easy to teach the world when mainstream media front pages use the...How open source delivers for government
By Viorel Tabara 3 October 2016 @ 6:14pminfo.crunchydata.com - Note that in their view, proprietary solutions are "legacy". A simple example of how the move toward OSS can improve IT architecture is by thinking about database backups. In the legacy regime of licensed closed source software, each license of...Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac - Slashdot
By Jon Dron 19 August 2016 @ 5:26pmnews.slashdot.org - This is a very interesting move that, on the face of it, seems very positive. PowerShell is not that great and there are plentiful better alternatives available for *nix systems already, so I doubt that it will have much impact in the existing...What is open source? — Open Words
By Jon Dron 2 August 2016 @ 1:26pm Comments (1)words.werd.io - From Ben Werdmuller, amongst other things the co-creator of the Elgg software used to run the Landing and Known, a great social publishing platform, this is among the clearest commentaries on open source that I have come across, including its...FreeIPA
By Viorel Tabara 23 July 2016 @ 5:29pmwww.freeipa.org - This is a killer tool and freedom breaker for any application looking for SSO. Not only it can handle authentication on its own but it can talk to Microsoft Active Directory for those cases where enterprise policy requires so. Top it up with Ipsilon...Endless OS/Computer
By Viorel Tabara 23 July 2016 @ 4:53pmendlessm.com - What is it? The best description is found buried under the Developer Information. Built on top of OSTree uses the same technology as RedHat Enterprise Linux Atomic and at $79USD for a Quad-core CPU / 1GB RAM / 24GB SSD with HDMI output it can make a...Teaching Linux to speak
By Viorel Tabara 17 July 2016 @ 12:20pmfossforce.com - An inspiring article linked from Texas Linux Fest Inteview with Ken Starks. Ken's cry for help with enhancing MaryTTS and the lack of feedback got me thinking: "Wow! it's Java. Accessibility gets a lot of attention at AU and Java is the main...6 Linux Distros Designed for Artists, Musicians and Editors
By Viorel Tabara 2 July 2016 @ 3:53pmwww.makeuseof.com - This put a smile on my face: "If I had a dollar for every person who told me they’re switching to Linux because it’s free, I could buy a few copies of Windows 10."CKAN DMS
By Viorel Tabara 3 June 2016 @ 4:32pmgithub.com - Catchy acronyms, eh? Another nice thing about it is the integration with Drupal and Wordpress. Built by Open Knowldege Foundation.Jupyter
By Viorel Tabara 2 June 2016 @ 11:27am Comments (1)http://jupyter.org/ - What started as an enhanced Python interpreter has now morphed into a rich scientific tool that allows collaboration in a connected world. Learn about the evolution of IPython.How Open Source can help in teaching: Lebanon Evangelical School in Loueizeh
By Viorel Tabara 9 May 2016 @ 3:03pm Comments (2)fedoramagazine.org - Excerpts from article: "As a school, we started migrating our servers from Windows to Linux (a combination of Fedora and CentOS) in 2005/2006 and made the decision to switch our desktops over to Fedora in 2008, mainly because I was sick and tired...Linux Foundation Training Prepares the International Space Station for Linux Migration
By Viorel Tabara 16 April 2016 @ 10:12pm Comments (1)training.linuxfoundation.org - A bit of an old news, however a valuable lesson. NASA has been an open source user and contributor for a long time. Notable projects: Beowulf Project, OpenStack.FOSS@MAGIC
By Viorel Tabara 5 April 2016 @ 11:13pmmagic.rit.edu - Anonther repository of educational open source software.Opensource tools for education
By Viorel Tabara 4 April 2016 @ 9:55pmopensource.com - A nice toolbox?Open source accessibility
By Viorel Tabara 2 April 2016 @ 1:53pmwww.aegis-project.eu - Traceback: Opengazer DasherJuniper's products are still insecure; more evidence that the company was complicit / Boing...
By Jon Dron 10 January 2016 @ 11:51am Comments (1)boingboing.net - So it looks like the backdoor into Juniper firewalls that lets anyone invisibly observe encrypted traffic persists, and it looks more and more like it was an intentional policy. It is hard to fathom why anyone would trust a closed-source product...How PayPal Runs the World's Largest Private OpenStack Cloud
By Viorel Tabara 22 December 2015 @ 1:58amblog.appformix.com - There is no doubt about it, PayPal did use in-house tools, however the speed they moved the whole infrastructure from their announcement back in March this year to fully become an OpenStack cloud operator is quite a lesson to learn from. There...Open Invention Network
By Viorel Tabara 27 September 2015 @ 8:52pm Comments (1)www.openinventionnetwork.com - OIN Members & Licensees: 1. Google 2. IBM 3. NEC 4. Philips 5. Red Hat 6. Sony 7. SUSE (a unit of Micro...Apache Mesos
By Viorel Tabara 25 September 2015 @ 10:28pmmesos.berkeley.edu - Clusters of commodity servers have become a major computing platform, powering both large Internet services and a growing number of data-intensive scientific applications.Vinux Project
By Viorel Tabara 9 July 2015 @ 10:25pmhttp://vinuxproject.org/ - Backtrace: http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/alpine_mutt From home page: Vinux is a Ubuntu derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default Vinux provides two screen-readers, Braille display support and a...Osalt
By Jon Dron 8 May 2015 @ 9:46pmhttp://www.osalt.com/ - osalt is a good source of open source alternatives to commercial products as well as news, reviews and other helpful information. Interesting that, in many cases, the commercial products are weak alternatives to open source rather than the other way...Stephen Downes post on Mark Surman talk
By Colin Elliott 27 April 2015 @ 2:03pmhalfanhour.blogspot.ca - This is a great post on a fantastic talk from #oeglobal 2015 in Banff last week.Given Enough Money, All Bugs Are Shallow
By Jon Dron 4 April 2015 @ 11:30am Comments (1)blog.codinghorror.com - Jeff Atwood (StackExchange, Discourse) in typically brilliant form on the problem with the 'enough eyes' theory. He makes a strong point, citing the Heartbleed vulnerability, that the vast majority of open source developers do not actually review...AU Landing Project on GitHub
By Jon Dron 2 April 2015 @ 9:49amgithub.com - Some of the Elgg plugins we at AU have created or adapted for the Landing. Not always up to date, not all stable versions, not complete, but includes a lot of the main ones we have worked on.AU @ Github
By Dmitry Makovey 1 April 2015 @ 11:23pmgithub.com - Link to the public repositories of many AU OSS projects. By no means it includes *all* the OSS activities we do, but covers quite a bit.Talk Openly Develop Openly group..
By Dmitry Makovey 1 April 2015 @ 11:17pm Comments (1)http://todogroup.org/ - Interesting site with blogs from companies like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. all talking how OpenSource is the core of their strategy both for service delivery and attracting best talent.Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India
By Colin Elliott 30 March 2015 @ 3:35pm Comments (1)deity.gov.in - "The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to 'ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.'" ...Australian Open Source Software Policy
By Colin Elliott 12 March 2015 @ 12:14pmwww.finance.gov.au - I thought this was interesting. Do we have anything like this in Canada? Alberta? at AU?Memodump - the cool MoinMoin theme
By Viorel Tabara 5 March 2015 @ 9:30pmgithub.com - Check out the project screenshots. And here's in action.Facebook & OpenSource
By Dmitry Makovey 3 March 2015 @ 7:59am Comments (1)code.facebook.com - At Facebook, we have always been strong advocates of open software. From our earliest days - when the site was built on PHP, MySQL and memcached - we've been privileged to stand on the shoulders of open source giants. Ever since, we've worked hard...FLOSS research
By Daryl Campbell 28 February 2015 @ 2:29pmhttp://flosshub.org - We really should have named this the FLOSS group but more on that latter. Lest anyone think we are making this up, and we can ground this group in academic research also. Here is the site that will expose to a plethora of research.Walmart: Why we chose OpenStack for Walmart Global eCommerce
By Dmitry Makovey 27 February 2015 @ 1:46pm Comments (3)Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft - Dan Gillmor
By Viorel Tabara 27 February 2015 @ 1:30pmmedium.com - Hmm, there is no better article to kickstart this group activity (or maybe there is? ;). It's well known that OSX runs on BSD and it's got a lot of open source tools under the hood but with Microsoft open sourcing ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages...
