The final day of the FLOSS Manuals documentation sprint at Google began with a bit of a reprieve from Sprintmeister Adam Hyde's dictum that we should do no new writing. He allowed us to continue work till noon, time that the KDE team spent partly in heated arguments over whether we had provided enough coverage of key topics... Read More »

Leeds Teaching Hospital has released the open source code related to its Opensource clinical portal after a successful development phase. Read More »

In a bid to save time and money on the R&D process, the drug sector has taken a more serious look at the open source model of collaboration and transparency. The industry's biggest names are stepping into this new environment by experimenting with new ways to pool early-stage research. Read More »

We started the second day of the FLOSS Manuals sprint with a circle encounter where each person shared some impressions of the first day. Several reported that they had worked on wikis and other online documentation before, but discovered that doing a book was quite different... Read More »

Four teams at Google launched into endeavors that will lead, less than 72 hours from now, to complete books on four open source projects (KDE, OpenStreetMap, OpenMRS, and Sahana Eden)... Read More »

Meet Scott Nesbitt. He's a freelance writer and consultant in Toronto, Canada. He uses open source tools for more than 85 percent of the work he does. He's idealistic about more getting more open data from our governments. Nesbitt also contributes to FLOSS Manuals by helping to document open source projects. Read More »

One of the great advantages of OpenClinica is the choice it offers...The new Optimized Hosting environment enhances that choice by providing a fast, reliable, and cost-effective way to get up and running with OpenClinica. Read More »

The above are some highlights of our multi-tier strategy to ensure the highest level of security of critical clinical data while maintaining accessibility and ease-of-use...At the end of the day it is the combination of process and technology controls, and subjecting these controls to continual scrutiny, that leads to strong security. Read More »

Can an entrenched bureaucracy, encumbered by a rigid culture and public records compliance adapt open source ways to collaborate more effectively?...If you want results, [use] open communications and transparency with your team. You might be surprised how these open source pillars will create the ownership and accountability to achieve your desired results. Read More »

The government now expects to save about $5 billion total by closing and consolidating federal data centers, federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said Thursday. Read More »