The Open Source Initiative has served as the key steward of open source software since its formation in 1998. In September 2021, the Open Source Initiative board hired Stefano Maffulli as its first Executive Director. I recently interviewed Stefano to learn more about him and his vision for the Open Source Initiative.
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Interview with Stefano Maffulli First Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative
By Jim Hall | December 17, 2021
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Is Open Source Technology Right For Your Clinical Studies?
Joshua Elvert | Clinovo | October 10, 2013
I recently attended the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Southern (OCT) California event as Clinovo was an exhibitor, showcasing the latest release of our advanced open source electronic data capture (EDC) system ClinCapture. [...] I sat in on the session by Liz Robertson, Director of Data Management, at TRACON Pharmaceuticals. Read More »
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Is Open Source The Key To Creating The Government Of The Future?
Pat Fiorenza | Open Source Delivers | December 4, 2013
At GovLoop.com, the knowledge network for government, we are passionate about highlighting the bright spots in government and helping to improve it. That’s why I am excited to share our most recent GovLoop Guide, focused on open source technology. Read More »
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Is The 1.5+ Trillion Dollar HITECH Act a Failure?
Hopefully, the public statements made by President Obama and Vice President Biden will lead to a public debate over the monumental problems that the HITECH Act and proprietary EHR vendors have caused the American people. While the press continues to report the figure of $35 billion as the cost of implementing EHRs, that figure does not tell the entire story. Perhaps the next step is to provide accountability and transparency. That would start with firm numbers regarding the real costs of EHR implementations forced on an unprepared healthcare system by the HITECH Act.
Posted January 20, 2017 - 12:00am by Roger A. Maduro
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Is the Grace Hopper Open Source Day 2015 a Turning Point for Open Health and Humanitarian Open Source Projects?
By Roger A. Maduro | October 13, 2015
One of the most significant efforts to help open health and humanitarian open source apps seen to date will be taking place tomorrow in Houston, Texas. The event is the Open Source Day 2015, part of the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) a conference designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. The full-day Code-A-Thon is focused on “coding for humanitarian causes in a dynamic, collaborative environment.” This day will give “women from around the world the chance to learn how to contribute to the open source community, regardless of their skill or experience level.”
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John Wilbanks to Keynote OpenClinica 2015 Conference (OC15)
Press Release |
OpenClinica |
April 1, 2015
Noted advocate of open access in clinical research and Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, John Wilbanks, will deliver the keynote presentation at the 2015 OpenClinica Global Conference (OC15), to be held May 31 - June 1 in Amsterdam. OpenClinica is the largest open source community in the clinical research field, and OC15 will bring together both clinical research and IT professionals to share cutting-edge information and ideas around how open source is being used to transform the clinical research landscape.
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June 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Tobin Greensweig
Michael Downey | OpenMRS | June 11, 2013
Each month we select one of our many impressive volunteer OpenMRS contributors and highlight them here, to share their experiences and help others learn more about the others involved in the project. In June, community manager Michael Downey chats with Tobin Greensweig and learn more about his OpenMRS contributions and his work and studies in the Middle East. Read More »
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Key Architect of VA’s Open Source Strategy Elected Chairman of the Board of OSEHRA
Press Release |
OSEHRA |
October 17, 2016
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) announced today that Mike O’Neill, CEO of MedicaSoft, has been elected Chairman of the OSEHRA Board of Directors. O’Neill, an architect of VA’s open source strategy and a thought leader in the open source community, has served several years on the Board and was most recently re-elected in September 2015 as a representative of OSEHRA’s Organizational Members. He assumed the Chairmanship on October 6. “It is an honor to be chosen for this role,” said O’Neill. “This is an exciting time for OSEHRA, with the new Federal Government policy on open source reaffirming our mission and impact.”
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Largest Email Group for Women in Tech Teams Up with Peace Corps
By Jen Wike Huger | September 10, 2015
Systers is the world's largest email community of women in tech. First a little history, from Anita Borg.org: Systers was founded by in 1987 as an email mailing list for women in "systems." At last official count, the community has over 5,500 members from at least 60 countries. Women technologists of all ages and at any stage of their studies or careers are welcome to contact the current Systers-keeper, Rose Robinson. In this interview Rose Robinson talks with me about Systers' participation in the Open Source Day Codeathon taking place at the Grace Hopper Conference (GHC) in Houston, Texas this year—where attendence will hit record numbers. (You can still register!) Systers is one of a group of participating organizations during the codeathon...
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Launching With Social Coding 4 Good @OSCON
Angela Oduor | Ushahidi | July 26, 2013
We are proud to announce that Ushahidi has begun a partnership with Social Coding 4 Good to build our developer community. Read More »
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Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead
Gabriel Lowy | Tech-Tonics | June 24, 2013
There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services. What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »
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Microsoft In OPEN-SOURCE .Net Love-In With New Foundation
Neil McAllister | The Register | April 4, 2014
Microsoft has opened its .Net programming framework to the developer community by releasing the code for a broad range of .Net-related software as open-source projects under the stewardship of a new, dedicated foundation. The surprise announcement came during the Thursday keynote at Redmond's annual Build developer conference, taking place this week in San Francisco.
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Mike ONeill: Making VistA More Accessible
Staff Writer | Nuffield Trust | July 5, 2012
In this slideshow, Mike ONeill, Senior Advisor to the Director, VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2), US Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the need for a new approach to electronic health record systems and draws on the benefits of establishing a new and international open-source community. Read More »
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Mozilla Pays It Forward
By Jen Wike Huger | September 7, 2015
Mozilla and seven other organizations will be participating in the Grace Hopper Open Source Day codethon taking place during the main conference event, on October 14. Emma Irwin is a Community Education Lead with Mozilla, and talks to me about why Mozilla is involved in the codethon, what she gets out of it, and what participants learn from it...
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My Year Of Living Open Source
Sam Muirhead | CNN | June 5, 2013
Sam Muirhead is a videographer who for one year is abandoning proprietary products and instead using and producing open source materials. Read More »
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