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Eclipse Foundation Launches Papyrus Industry Consortium Focused on Modeling Tools for Embedded Development

Press Release | Eclipse Foundation | February 23, 2016

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the Papyrus Industry Consortium, a collaboration to create a model-based engineering platform and workbench based on the domain specific and modeling capabilities of the Eclipse Papyrus family of products. The consortium partners will jointly fund the development of the Papyrus platform and tools, consolidate and prioritize requirements from consortium partners and across application domains, and promote Papyrus as an open source solution for MBE...

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3D Printers: A Revolutionary Frontier for Medicine

Mission control on earth receives an urgent communication from Mars that an astronaut has fractured his shinbone. Using a handheld scanning device, the crew takes images of his damaged tibia and transmits them to earth. Orthopedic surgeons then use a 3D printer to create an exact replica of the astronaut’s leg from medical imaging files obtained before the voyage. Surgeons on earth use a robot to stabilize the bone with a metal plate on the 3D replica. The data is transmitted back to Mars, where surgical instruments, a personalized plate and screws are 3D printed. Finally, a surgical robot operates on the injured astronaut...

A Perspective of Open Source Licensing Models for the Health Care Industry

Recently, I've had several interesting conversations about how business models based on open source technologies apply to the healthcare industry. While a lot has been written on the subject, I aim to provide a concise summary and some of my personal perspectives on the matter. This article discusses the definition of open source technology and licensing models; a second article will discuss governance models and applications in healthcare...In reality, it's hard to talk about open source licensing without talking about intellectual property (IP) and copyright. Copyright sums up the rights and obligations that the rightful owner associates with the work. The license describes the rights and obligations of any and everyone else, and can be as broad or as limited as the owner chooses.

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Africa: Open-Source Opens Up Architecture For The Poor

Rachel Mundy | AllAfrica.com | August 10, 2013

Architects and community leaders are combining forces to lead the way in creating many types of innovative housing in developing nations as part of an open-source collaboration. Read More »

Collaborative Projects: Transforming The Way Software Is Built

Mike Woster | The Linux Foundation | July 8, 2013

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. [...] Nothing had or has since compared with that rate of innovation: I was hooked on open source collaboration, and I’ve never looked back. Read More »

GitHub: How An Open Source Programming Tool With A Funny Name Could Help Revolutionize Medical Research

Joyce Lee | The Health Care Blog | July 28, 2013

Most people I work with in medicine have never heard of GitHub . For the unfamiliar, GitHub is an online repository, which is an essential tool used by computer programmers to store their programming code.  It has a number of virtues, including giving users the ability to track multiple versions of their code... Read More »

Maxims Code To Be Released On GitHub

Lis Evenstad | E-Health Insider | March 19, 2014

IMS Maxims will release the source code for its electronic patient record system on GitHub, the company announced today.  Speaking in the open source pavilion at the HC2014 conference in Manchester Paul Cooper, IMS Maxim’s head of research, said the company has been in talks for several months about how best to go about open sourcing parts of its Maxims EPR.

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Open Source Governance and the Rise of a New Open Health Movement

It's hard to tell if (or when) new open source foundations will appear and claim a leading role in healthcare. It would be interesting to see one created to scale an existing viable model, such as the one from Oroville Hospital using VistA. Or we could see OSEHRA shifting its focus and expanding its charter beyond just the US government space. Nevertheless, the successful foundation would keep a low barrier to entry for innovators, allowing them to incorporate and scale open source healthcare technologies into commercial products. Time will tell, but what's for certain is that we live in interesting times, and I am looking forward to massive innovation in healthcare in the near future. The time is ripe.

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Rethinking Open Source Collaboration

The open source world has been through a significant period of change in the last fifteen years. What started out as volunteers getting together to work on projects for fun has now turned into a billion-dollar industry. Although the spotlight is shone on open source more than ever before and the technology and tools have evolved, the core fundamentals of how we build open source software are still the same at their core – yet the rigor and quality expectations have changed. I think this is a great opportunity for our wider community as well as an organization.

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Community Leadership Summit 2021

Event Details
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Conference
Date: 
October 18, 2021 (All day)

The Community Leadership Summit 2021 brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. Leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration will discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community. The event will feature moderated and facilitated discussions to deliver a rich set of content driven by a diverse audience.

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