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Federal Source Code Policy Requires Agencies To Share Code

Nathan Eddy | Information Week | August 9, 2016

The objective behind the White House's Federal Source Code policy is to ensure all agencies make custom-developed source code available for re-use across government. The aim is to make the government work more like developers in the private sector and to encourage sharing and collaboration. The White House officially released its Federal Source Code policy on Aug. 8, designed to support improved access to custom software code developed by or for the US government...

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FedOSS: Creating Open Source Communities

Luke Fretwell | FedScoop | June 18, 2013

FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell and Red Hat U.S. Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Gunnar Hellekson discuss the latest in federal government open source software. Read More »

FedPod: IT Update With VA CTO Peter Levin

David Stegon | FedScoop | October 24, 2012

Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin gives a VA IT update and discusses OSEHRA, Blue Button and open source software. Read More »

Feds Release Latest Version Of Connect

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | February 13, 2013

The federal government has released its latest version of the open source Connect software platform for advanced health information exchange. Read More »

Feds Seek To Educate Patients On Info Sharing

David F. Carr | Information Week | September 17, 2013

Using a combination of guidelines and open-source software, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is trying to encourage healthcare organizations to obtain "meaningful consent" as part of the process of sharing patient information online.

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Feeding The Flame Of The Collaborative Development Revolution

Steven J Vaughan-Nichols | Smart Bear | May 22, 2014

Agile, open source, the cloud, and DevOps have all led to a world where everyone should be involved in programming. Yes, everyone...

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Fighting Ebola with Open Source Collaboration

By Jeff Neiman | August 31, 2016

The enormity and severity of the West African Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 is hard to fathom. Over 10,000 people died with hundreds of thousands deeply affected by loss. In treating any medical condition, information is needed to provide adequate care, but when it’s an epidemic so severe, so dangerous and so fast-moving, it’s required more than ever. Ebola creates enormous barriers for patient care. It’s communicability means those who directly treat patients within the “Red Zone” must take extreme precautions. The lack of knowledge about who is infected and what constitutes effective treatment — not to mention the swift and severe toll it takes on the human body — makes caring for those affected extremely difficult...

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Firefox Beta Brings New 'Home' Design To Android, Desktop Version Gains Firefox OS App Manager

Edgar Alvarez | Engadget | October 31, 2013

Early adopters know that Firefox likes to put new features through the paces via beta versions of its browser. Accordingly, Firefox today announced some fresh goodies for both mobile and desktop... Read More »

First Firefox Smartphone Launches In Spain

Staff Writer | Phys.org | July 3, 2013

The world's first consumer sales of a smartphone powered by the Firefox operating system have launched in Spain. Read More »

First NHS Hack Day In London

Jon Hoeksma | eHealth Insider | May 17, 2012

The first NHS Hack Day will be held in London at the end of next week, to bring together doctors, developers and designers. Read More »

First Open Chemistry Beta Release

Marcus Hanwell | Kitware Blog | April 11, 2013

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries - Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. Read More »

First Timer’s Guide to FOSS Conferences

By Sarah Sharp | February 10, 2016

I’ve been going to FOSS (free and open source) conferences since 2006. My first open source conference was FreedomHEC in Seattle, a little 30-person conference for Linux users to protest Microsoft’s WinHEC. My next open source conference was OSCON, which had over a thousand attendees. They were both very different conferences, and as a college student, I really didn’t know what to expect. Going to your first open source conference can be intimidating, so I’ve complied ten tips for people who are new to the conference circuit...

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Five Common Pitfalls To Avoid In Open Source

David Hurley | OpenSource.com | April 24, 2014

Open source software, hardware, and methods are gaining popularity and access to them couldn't be more prolific. If you're thinking about starting a new open source project, there are five common pitfalls you should be aware of before you begin.

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Five More Common Myths About Open Source

Simon Mitchell | Business 2 Community | July 2, 2013

We establish some Linux facts and debunk some popular Open Source myths. Read More »

Five Open Source Tools Libraries Need to Know About

By Nicole C. Engard | October 14, 2016

There was a time when working in the library I found it very frustrating (as many librarians do) that there were so few options for software that actually did what I needed. In libraries we're so used to there being this vendor=software model. Where one vendor controls a product and while there might be other similar products, they too are controlled by a vendor. This is why libraries need to take a closer look at open source software. By removing the "owner" (aka the vendor) from the equation we get a lot more freedom to make software that does what we want, how we want, when we want. One of the hardest thing to teach libraries who are switching to an open source solution is that the power is now in their hands to direct the software...

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