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”

 

• Choosing Between Vaadin and JSF

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 147
  I had the opportunity to create a Proof of Concept (PoC) to compare JSF and Vaadin in order to help developers and architects to decide between one of them.The result of the PoC was surprisingly interesting :)
  15 hours ago

• Firefox 10 Released

  
  My Personal Blog — Authority: 114
  Its February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. Its now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager ...
  16 hours ago

• Spring Data – Part 3: MongoDB

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 147
  The 3rd part of my blog post series on the Spring Data project deals with MongoDB. Upcoming posts will cover Spring Data Neo4j and Spring Data GermFire.
  16 hours ago

• The Tablet That Every Linux Lover Has Been Waiting For [Tablets]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 864
  While most people just want their devices to work so that they can do stuff , some people love tinkering with operating systems. Until now, the tablet sectors been ripe for hacking, but there hasnt been anything thats truly open-source and easy to fiddle with from the get-go. This Spark tablet puts that straight. ...
  17 hours ago

• Clone Repetition Http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/13131

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 154
  Hi, I’ve seen you have make this project clone of dsw.com. can you send me link to new Page. I need same solution for online store. I can in admin and FrontPage change language.I need German lanquage. is that with mysql database? which open source project you use for this solution(magento or mabo-joomla or ...
  19 hours ago

• HTML5 Web Database Implementation: HTML5SQL

  
  Open Source Resources for Designers & Developers | Greepit.com — Authority: 111
  html5sql is a light JavaScript module that makes working with the HTML5 Web Database a whole lot easier. Its primary function is to provides a structure for the SEQUENTIAL processing of SQL statements within a single transaction. This alone greatly simplifies the interaction with the database however it ...
  19 hours ago

• Meet Spark, the €200 slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  As we all know, the Kindle Fires hot , Apples selling bushels of iPads , and theres plenty of Honeycomb slates out there for you to choose from, but what if you want a tablet free from corporate influence? Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux ...
  19 hours ago

• Brian Hernacki, webOS chief architect, leaves HP

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  The Verge has learned that HP’s Brian Hernacki, who most recently has served as chief architect for webOS, has left the company. Though he’d never been a public face of the product the same way big names like Jon Rubinstein or Matias Duarte had been, Hernacki’s departure seems to leave another relatively ...
  1 day ago

• Typo3 Extension That Connects Razuna Dam To Typo3

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 154
  We want a TYPO3 extension (open source) that makes it possible to use Razuna as Digital Asset Management (DAM) system in Typo3. We currently use Typo3 DAM, but it can’t live up to our demands for a centralized media repository with images, videos, audio like Razuna. Requirements: The TYPO3 Extension should ...
  2 days ago

• $270 Spark Linux tablet is powered by KDE Active Plasma

  
  Apple counting milestone of 10 billion apps downloaded from App Store — Authority: 127
  $270 Spark Linux tablet is powered by (and generates funds for) KDE Active Plasma You’ve got a ton of choices right now if you’ve started shopping for the perfect tablet to meet your needs. But which one do you pick? Should you stick with a big brand name? What if you’re a staunch supporter of free, open ...
  2 days ago

• Zorp V-3.9.3 release

  
  Security List Network — Authority: 105
  Zorp is a proxy firewall suite with its core architecture is built around today’s security demands: it uses application level proxies, is modular and component based, uses a script language to describe policy decisions, makes it possible to monitor encrypted traffic, lets you override client actions, and lets you ...
  2 days ago

• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft

  
  Tales from the Evil Empire — Authority: 426
  Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take ...
  2 days ago

• KRaptor a Raptor free software (open source) arcade game clone for GNU / Linux

  
  Walking in Light with Christ — Authority: 112
  Kraptor is another Raptor Shadow of Death free software, open source clone arcade game for GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows (98, XP etc.) . The game is not under active development anymore since 2004. Kraptor features a powerful engine for creating quickly 2D shooter games, so the game should be a good learning ...
  2 days ago

• Using KeePass Instead of SAP Logon

  
  SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs — Authority: 133
  In this blog I describe, how you can use the Open Source Software KeePass not only to save your user and password of a SAP System but also, how you can logon to a SAP system directly from KeePass without using SAP Logon.
  3 days ago

• ToTop Link 1.2 for WordPress

  
  Dao By Design Blog — Authority: 85
  ToTop Link 1.2 for WordPress is out. This simple plugin gives WordPress-powered sites an easy way to add a “return to top” link to their pages. You can see it in action here, simply scroll down the page a bit and you’ll see a “return to top” link appear. New in v1.2 : You can now completely customize the ...
  3 days ago

• RVA Open Source looks into the Dillon Rule, new tools for tackling blight

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 121
  This past week’s RVA Open Source talks about weed, the Dillon Rule, and taking on blight in Richmond : After that, Jesse Richardson, an associate professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech, gives listeners an overview of the Dillon Rule and how it effects local governments and regional planning. ...
  4 days ago

• Cloudera Day in DC

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 113
  Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many ...
  4 days ago

• libburnia 1.2.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 138
  libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660 filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, ...
  4 days ago

• GNU xorriso 1.2.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 138
  GNU xorriso creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. Files can be copied in and out. The session results get written to optical media or to filesystem objects. Rather than needing external tools for ISO 9660 production and CD/DVD/BD burning, it is a static ...
  4 days ago

• Unicorn 4.2.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 138
  Unicorn is a Unix and LAN/localhost-optimized fork of the Mongrel HTTP server. It is takes full advantage of functionality exclusive to Unix-like operating systems. It will reap and restart workers that die from broken apps, and there is no need to manage multiple processes yourself. Load balancing is done entirely by ...
  4 days ago

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