More than two months after Hurricane Harvey submerged much of metropolitan Houston, recovery is under way across the city. Residents and volunteers are gutting and restoring flooded homes. Government agencies and nonprofit organizations are announcing cleanup programs and developing plans to distribute relief funds. But many questions remain about impacts on public health. What contaminants did floodwaters leave behind? How many people are being exposed to mold – which can grow rapidly in damp, humid conditions – as they repair their homes? Will there be an increase in Zika, West Nile or other vector-borne diseases as mosquito populations recover? Or an uptick in reported cases of other illnesses?...
How a University's 3D-Printed Prosthetics Club Provides Devices for Amputees
By Emily Shannon | November 11, 2017
Last fall, one of the co-founders of Duke University eNable published an article describing our club’s beginnings and visions for the future. In the spring of 2016, we started out as six engineering students with a passion for innovation and design, supported by a small stipend from the Innovation Co-Lab and a grant from OSPRI (Open Source Pedagogy, Research and Innovation), a project supported by Red Hat. Since then we have established ourselves as a presence on campus, grown into a large interdisciplinary team, and connected with multiple recipients—including a young boy in Milot, Haiti. The resources offered through Duke and the sponsorship we've received allow us to continuously transform our ideas into things we can share with open source enthusiasts, makers, and dreamers alike...
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China Open Source Conference 2017
COSCon 2017 is the first annual China open source meeting focused on open source community, operations of technology community, and open source project promotion. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear keynotes and talks by leaders in the open source community in China...
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DevOpsDays Warsaw
DevOpsDays Warsaw is one of a series of community conferences designed to bring together anyone interested in IT improvement. The first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009 and has since multiplied, with more than a dozen events currently scheduled for 2018. These two-day conference covers topics related to software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them...
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DevOpsDays Tel Aviv
DevOpsDays Tel Aviv is one of a series of community conferences designed to bring together anyone interested in IT improvement. The first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009 and has since multiplied, with more than a dozen events currently scheduled for 2018. These two-day conference covers topics related to software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them...
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DevOps Days Galway
DevOpsDays Galway is one of a series of community conferences designed to bring together anyone interested in IT improvement. The first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009 and has since multiplied, with more than a dozen events currently scheduled for 2018. These two-day conference covers topics related to software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them...
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2018 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit
The 2018 summit will be the 9th Annual State Healthcare IT Connect Summit and is expected to bring together more than 700 leaders from the private and public sector to share ideas and benchmark implementation strategies for state health IT systems. Attendees will have access to keynote speeches and panel discussions, collaborative networking roundtables, breakout sessions (choosing between the 5 different tracks available), and the Connect Exhibition...
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Scientist at Work: Measuring Public Health Impacts after a Disaster
By Jennifer Horney | November 9, 2017
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Making Transparency Work for Harvard's Dataverse Project
By Philp Durbin | November 8, 2017
A culture of transparency permeates the Dataverse project, contributing to its adoption in dozens of research institutions around the world. Headquartered at Harvard University, the Dataverse development team has more than a decade of experience operating as an open source project within an organization that values transparency: the Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). Working transparently helps the Dataverse team communicate changes to current development efforts, provides opportunities for the community to support each other, and facilitates contribution to the project...
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Recovering from Disasters: Social Networks Matter More than Bottled Water and Batteries
By Daniel P. Aldrich | November 7, 2017
Standard advice about preparing for disasters focuses on building shelters and stockpiling things like food, water and batteries. But resilience - the ability to recover from shocks, including natural disasters - comes from our connections to others, and not from physical infrastructure or disaster kits. Almost six years ago, Japan faced a paralyzing triple disaster: a massive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns that forced 470,000 people to evacuate from more than 80 towns, villages and cities. My colleagues and I investigated how communities in the hardest-hit areas reacted to these shocks, and found that social networks - the horizontal and vertical ties that connect us to others - are our most important defense against disasters...
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The Fax of Life
Sarah Kliff | Vox | October 30, 2017
When you walk into the Arlington Women’s Center, you see a spacious waiting room with artwork on the wall, maroon chairs, and a friendly receptionist sitting at the front desk. The obstetrics and gynecology practice serves a high-income suburb of Washington, DC. Framed photographs on the wall advertise the center’s physicians who’ve made lists of the city’s best doctors. It’s a modern, upscale doctor office. But when it needs to share patient records, it turns to an outdated technology: the fax machine...
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