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My Year Of Living Open Source
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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Nairobi's iHub Seeks Investment For New Hardware Hackspace, Gearbox
One of the stalwarts of the Kenyan tech scene wants to move beyond its focus on software and apps by offering hardware workspace for design and rapid prototyping. Read More »
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NASA Launches Next Space Apps Challenge
International competition brings together developers from around the world to create software, hardware and visualization tools for space exploration missions. Read More »
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NASA Wants You To Hack Space (And Life On Earth)
NASA announced the launch of its second International Space Apps Challenge featuring 50 space exploration related challenges that range from building applications to designing visualizations based on NASA data. Read More »
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Nebula Aims To Deliver OpenStack Cloud Control
The open source OpenStack project provides a powerful software platform for cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment. But what about hardware? Read More »
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Networked Intelligent Bicycles Are Transforming Urban Riding
The world’s first open source piece of hardware was the bicycle, according to the Open Source Hardware Association. To be more precise, it was the draisine, introduced as a two-wheeled human-propelled walking machine in 1817. Read More »
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New Online Design Centre From RS Components Supports Collaboration In Open Source Design
Open Source Design Centre provides reliable information and connection point for engineers designing with open source hardware Read More »
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Novena Whips Up An Open Source Laptop From Scratch
Novena Project aims to create an entirely open source laptop, from the iron down to the bits, and a prototype already exists Read More »
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Now, It’s The Turn Of Open Source Hardware Movement
After the open source software movement in the IT sector, the new wave is that of open source hardware, wherein the information about the hardware can easily be discerned and it can be further customised. Read More »
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Open Compute Pushes GPL-Like License For 'Open Source Hardware'
Facebook's open hardware effort adopts 'prescriptive' license requiring altered designs to be contributed back to foundation when sold Read More »
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Open Compute Summit: New Members, Technologies
The Open Compute Project, backed by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), is gaining momentum, as evidenced by the increasing attendance at the Open Compute Summit. [...] There has been a bit of buzz about some of the innovations unveiled at the show, and this can only mean good things for the open source cloud computing market. Read More »
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Open Compute: Momentum Builds For Open Hardware
Perhaps the best sign of the progress made by the Open Compute Project is that companies as diverse as Rackspace Hosting, Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs are all running servers based on these “open hardware” designs in their data centers. Read More »
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Open Compute: Rackspace Designs Own Servers Using Open-Source Facebook Specs
Rackspace, one of the world’s largest hosting and cloud-infrastructure providers, is on its way to becoming the first company of a kind other than the web giants of Google’s and Facebook’s caliber to stray away from buying servers and storage gear from traditional IT vendors – such as HP or Dell – choosing instead to design its own gear and use the same manufacturers those traditional vendors use to make it. Read More »
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Open Compute: The Perks Of Converged Infrastructure, No Proprietary B.S. | #OCPSummit
The fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit took place on January 28 and 29 in San Jose, California. Day one kicked off with Frank Frankovsky’s opening remarks. The Chairman and President of OCP Foundation presented the “Open Compute Project: 2014 and Beyond”, explaining to the audience what the event is going to focus on and what to expect from the following speakers. Read More »
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Open Hardware Summit
NASA’s Open Innovation Program recently participated in the Open Hardware Summit, sponsored by the newly formed Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). What we witnessed was a community in its early stages, developing in front of our eyes, tackling technical/legal/cultural challenges with an openness that we have grown to respect and see as an essential part of the way NASA will do business in the future. Read More »
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