open source

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

Popular open source projects include the Apache web server, MySQL database, and Firefox web browser, as well as many others.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about, and advocate for, the benefits of open source. OSI works to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.

One of the OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open source ”

• How To Display Second Life in 3D

  
  New World Notes — Authority: 588
  This month when you watch Avatar or another 3D movie in the theaters, be sure to keep your glasses, so you can watch this machinima as its intended: Second Life rendered into a 3D video. Its the work of metaverse...
  4 hours ago

• Symfony Blog: Doctrine vs Propel

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Since the Symfony framework project has such tight integration with both the Propel and Doctrine ORM layers, they thought theyd share some statistics on the usage of both as mapped through the stats from their Jobeet tutorial . read more
  5 hours ago

• Future of Mozilla Education

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  “Hecker,” who is apparently affiliated with Mozilla Education, has a new post on the future of Mozilla Education and wonders what kind of projects are appropriate for 2010. From the post: In my opinion this is not so much a failing of the approach as it is a failing of academia: The schools that have been most ...
  5 hours ago

• Really “Open” LMS

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Michael Feldstein has posted on vendors who incorrectly use the term “open.” From the post: I don’t claim to have any definitive answers as to what should be labeled “open” under what circumstances, but I would like to explore the concept a bit further by reflecting on the ways and degrees to which ...
  5 hours ago

• Choosing an Open Platform for Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Karen Fasimpaur has a new post asking which open platform would be best for open textbooks. From the post: While Moodle seems like a good LMS for my purposes, it seems like we’d need a front-end development CMS to host content in.
  5 hours ago

• openSUSE 11.2 – A Polished Linux System Perfect For New Users and Pros Alike

  
  MakeUseOf — Authority: 712
  openSUSE is a commercially-backed Open Source Linux distribution with origins in Germany. Novell bought SuSE in November 2004 and has been releasing a freely downloadable community-based Linux desktop since August 2005. It created a lot of buzz and quickly became a favorite distribution with its initial release of ...
  6 hours ago

• Mixed Reality Cocktail: Rum and Coke Mixed and Poured in Second Life... and Served in Vienna!

  
  New World Notes — Authority: 588
  Yesterday someone invited me to watch what is almost certainly the longest and strangest cocktail drink order to ever get fulfilled: rum and coke drinks mixed in Second Life, and served in Vienna. From SL, the drink is mixed with...
  6 hours ago

• Browser Shares Reveal True Benefits of Open Source

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Linux Foundation: "There was a good story on Ars Technica last week about the current state of browser share on the Internet. Browser news is always interesting because it gives us one window into how far open source has come on the desktop."
  6 hours ago

• High-Energy Linux: Linux & the Large Hadron Collider

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 146
  The worlds biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is up and running with Linux in charge. read more
  6 hours ago

• StressLinux - the linux distribution for high load stress testing sees new release - Linux Critic

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  StressLinux, a unique and handy linux distribution that provides a means of performing high load stress testing on systems, has seen a new release.
  6 hours ago

• Vaadin 6.2.0-pre1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  Vaadin is a Web application framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. AJAX technology is used on the browser side to ensure a rich and ...
  7 hours ago

• CoffeeSaint 2.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  CoffeeSaint is a Java application which shows the status of Nagios (version 1 up to 3) on a screen. It can, if there are no errors, display a webcam-feed. If an errorstatus occurs it can play a sound. One can configure it to display certain errors/warning always on top. It is remotely configurable via a built-in Web ...
  7 hours ago

• Open-Xchange Virtual Appliance 0.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  Open-Xchange Virtual Appliance is a virtual appliance/machine that includes a full installation of the popular email collaboration software Open-Xchange. In addition to Open-Xchange, it includes Dovecot, since Open-Xchange is not bundled with any IMAP or POP3 server. It also includes Joe (a simple text editor) and ...
  7 hours ago

• Found Footage: The iPhone-controlled, solar-powered Arduino tank

  
  dailytechnews.info — Authority: 158
  Filed under: Hardware , Open Source , Found Footage , iPhone Are you the type of person who likes to handcraft your Christmas gifts? This year, perhaps you can make someone’s Christmas Day just a little bit brighter and happier when they unwrap their very own iPhone-controlled, solar-powered Arduino tank. ...
  7 hours ago

• CrunchPad now called JooJoo, likely not open source, now $499, might come out this week

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 683
  Follow up Chandra Rathakrishnan (Fusion Garage, maker of the CrunchPad, er, was/is) did that video call today. There is new information, but it seems the proclamation of the tablet being "open source" from the start isnt being addressed at all... Heres a run down from engadget . JooJoo will be $499, available at ...
  7 hours ago

• CrunchPad now called JooJoo, likely not open source, now $499, might come out this week

  
  TOYS and GADGETs | News | Reviews | Videos — Authority: 171
  Follow up Chandra Rathakrishnan (Fusion Garage, maker of the CrunchPad, er, was/is) did that video call today. There is new information, but it seems the proclamation of the tablet being "open source" from the start isnt being addressed at all... Heres a run down from engadget . JooJoo will be $499, available at ...
  7 hours ago

• DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/7

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  Microsoft backs down in the face of antitrust complaints from Opera regarding a ballot page of browsers on Windows-based machines. AppJet Inc. yielded to angry customers by open sourcing its EtherPad software after it said it would no longer provide the service when Google acquired it.
  7 hours ago

• Experiments with audio, part I

  
  Bread and Circuits — Authority: 122
  This post marks the beginning of what I expect to be a somewhat regular series of posts in which I will document my thinking, learning, and progress related to some Firefox development.  I say “Experiments” above, because I am going to try a number of things.  First, I’m going to push into a part of the ...
  8 hours ago

• Thread Safe Template Library 1.3.4

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides thread-safe storage data structures without global locking. It includes classes for maps based on a non-binary extensible hashing tree for very fast access, a pipe, a queue, a timercache, a limitcache, and a fast writer multiple reader guard (or ...
  8 hours ago

• Wind River Commercial Android Platform

  
  Embedded Star — Authority: 135
  Wind River Platform for Android is a commercial version of open source Android. It is optimized on the OMAP 3 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The Wind River Platform for Android is a validated, fully compliant software platform based on the latest versions of the Android software development kit ...
  8 hours ago

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