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Now, this is tax money well spent! O Canada!
Tag: open source
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“Road to WordPress 3.1” Video
Visualization of all commits made to the WordPress project up until WordPress 3.1 was released on Wednesday 23 February 2011.Found via Alex.
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Arduino: The Documentary
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/18539129 w=640&h=360]
A documentary on the birth and rise of the Arduino project.Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
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New and Improved MIT OpenCourseWare Courses
MIT OpenCourseWare is launching five new courses today that mark a new model for one of the world’s premier open educational resources. These OCW Scholar courses are designed for use by independent learners, and like the other material made available through MIT OCW, are freely available for anyone to pursue.
Via New MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative Aims to Improve Independent Online Learning.
The 5 OCW Scholar courses currently available are:
- Physics I: Classical Mechanics
- Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
- Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
- Single Variable Calculus
- Multivariable Calculus
What? No Macramé course? Pfff… 😉
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Montréal Ouvert
We are a citizen initiative that promotes open access to civic information for the region of Montreal.
We believe open access to civic information and data increases civic engagement, makes services more accessible, and creates opportunities for innovation.
Through this space we hope to initiate and sustain a productive dialogue on open access between stakeholders for the benefit of all Montréalers.
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Brian Behlendorf Becomes New CTO of World Economic Forum
Brian Behlendorf, primary developer of the Apache Web Server, co-founder of the world’s first dedicated commercial web site creation company and a member of the Mozilla board has joined the World Economic Forum as the organization’s CTO, he announced on Twitter this morning.
Via Apache Co-Founder, Mozilla Board Member, Becomes New CTO of World Economic Forum.
I like the sound of that!
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Québec Government Sees the Open Source Light
All I have to say to the following is it’s about freakin’ time…
In what appears to be a 180 degree turn, Michelle Courchesne, Présidente du Conseil du Trésor of the government of Québec, announced that any governmental organization and any other entity depending on the government must consider open source software for any IT project, at the Salon du Logiciel Libre in Québec city.
Via Montreal Tech Watch » Québec Government makes way for open source software in IT infrastructure.
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Ubuntu 10.10 Looking Spiffy on our Acer Aspire One
I’ve upgraded our household netbook to GNU/Linux Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10, from 9.04), and the latter is now the default boot-time option instead of Windows XP.Twenty of the drive’s 160GB are dedicated to Linux, as ext4. The rest is divided between the legacy NTFS partition for Windows, and another partition (~5GB) with Acer’s eRecovery tool, so I can reset the machine to factory defaults if ever needed. Since I was able to resize the partition dynamically right in the installer, I didn’t even need to move the files we had under Windows. The NTFS partition mounts in full read/write mode, so why bother for now?
Teagan (11) has been using it for a few days now, with Chromium/Chrome as his default browser and VLC as his default media player. The latter two being the apps he spends 99.9% of his time in.
For the record, I did try Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but I couldn’t get used to the dashboard-type UX, being a long-time Gnome user… The rest of the family would have probably been fine with it, but I figured I’d stick with the original for now. We can install the netbook remix interface on top later anyway.
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Tom Steinberg on Open Data
We live in quite extraordinary times. We live at a moment where many of the most important politicians in our country and in some others overseas are actually eager to stand up and say that open data is an important priority for them, and for their nations. Just pause and think about it for a second: politicians! Talking about data! At all!
via Premise: Open Data: How Not To Cock It Up.
See DataSF for a great example of open data provided by a (municipal) government and some of the projects citizens have been rolling out with the said data.
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Face Detection with HTML5 & JavaScript
Chinese coder Liu Liu has released the code for a JavaScript based face detector. There is a demo here and the code is available from Github. It appears to be a proof of concept at the moment, but could have more significant uses.
via Hack of the Day: Face Detection with HTML5 & JavaScript.
