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Build Your Own Supercomputer: First $99 Parallella Boards Ship
Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board. Read More »
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Building a Bootstrapped Business on Open Source
Back in 2009, our day-to-day life at Planio was writing software for clients. Client work is often fun, but there can also be a feeling that you're stuck on a hamster wheel of endlessly churning through projects, always looking for new customers. We used Redmine, an open source project management tool built using the Ruby on Rails framework, to manage these projects. And then something curious started happening. We'd wrap up a project and our client would come to us asking if we'd consider letting them keep the project management tool...
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Building A business On OpenStreetMap Data? OpenCage Data Wants To Make That Easier
With location becoming a key part of many new apps and services, the use of free OpenStreetMap data seems like a no-brainer. But, as OpenCage Data company Lokku learned, there’s a lot of complexity involved. Read More »
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Building an Open Medical Records System for the Developing World
How do you introduce a woman whose very life is the epitome of humanitarian efficacy? Judy Gichoya is a Kenyan medical doctor specializing in radiology and an experienced programmer who's accelerating the growth of OpenMRS. According to its website, "OpenMRS is a software platform and a reference application which enables design of a customized medical records system with no programming knowledge." Judy first got interested in computers in high school, prior to entering medical school she learned to program at a technical college and through online resources on the internet...
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Building Institutional Repositories For Global Research Commons
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution (INASP, 2013). According to ROAR, there are 3,340 and as per OpenDOAR, there are 2,255 institutional repositories in the world and out of which 87 are in agriculture, food and veterinary (OpenDOAR, 2013). Read More »
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Building Local Skills To Support The Open Source iHRIS Software
Over 20 countries are implementing the open source iHRIS software to manage and plan their health workforce. CapacityPlus, along with other USAID projects led by IntraHealth International, is assisting several of these countries to install, customize, and roll out the human resources information systems (HRIS) software. Read More »
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Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware
Most experimental research projects are executed with a combination of purchased hardware equipment, which may be modified in the laboratory and custom single-built equipment fabricated inhouse. However, the computer software that helps design and execute experiments and analyze data has an additional source... Read More »
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Bulgaria Got a Law Requiring Open Source
Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to the deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, with the efforts of my colleagues and the deputy prime minister, the amendments to the Electronic Governance Act were voted in parliament and are now in effect. The amendments require all software written for the government to be open-source and to be developed as such in a public repository...
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Bulgaria Passes Law Requiring Government Software to Be Open Source
Amendments to the country's Electronic Governance Act have been voted on in Parliament and are now in effect. Amendments have been passed by the Bulgarian Parliament requiring all software written for the government to be open source and developed in a public repository, making custom software procured by the government accessible to everyone. Article 58 of the Electronic Governance Act states that administrative authorities must include the following requirements...
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Busted For Dodging Linux License, Samsung Makes Nice With Free Code
Samsung has released software that could help a brand new class of storage devices work with Linux-based smartphones and computers. Read More »
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Buy EHR vs Build EHR
I’ve long had an interest in the topic of when hospitals chose to buy their EHR software versus build their EHR software. In fact, we’ve written multiple times on the subject including Anne Zieger’s piece on “Some Hospitals Still Choosing To Build Own EMR“. Read More »
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Bye-Bye Ballmer, Hello Open Source? Microsoft's Upcoming Options
Despite early 'cancer' slur, Steve Ballmer has been investing in open source. Could his departure open doors at Microsoft? Read More »
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CA Hospital Adds CPOE To VistA Implementation
It’s still rare these days to see a private hospital roll out open source EMR VistA, despite VistA’s excellent reputation. But one such hospital has not only implemented VistA, it’s added CPOE to its VistA rollout. Read More »
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Call For Participation: State And Local Government Study On Open Source Adoption
If you’re a U.S. State or Local technology professional with experience in open source software for your organization, your participation is being sought for a national study. Read More »
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Cameras As Evidence: What Does It Mean For Ushahidians?
Deep in the mountains of Italy, Centro d’Ompio, we sat in a circle brainstorming Cameras as Evidence. What would it take to collect a good and actionable citizen report using photos or video? Lead by Chris Michael of Witness, we discussed and brainstormed. [...] Read More »
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