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£20m Of Tech Fund To Go On Open Source

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | November 5, 2013

Up to £20m of the 'Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund' will go towards open source development. Speaking at EHI Live 2013, Beverley Bryant, director of strategic systems and technology at NHS England, said 20 trusts want to pursue an open source electronic patient record system. Read More »

​Open Invention Network Expands Open-Source Patent Protection Beyond Linux

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZD Net | May 9, 2017

Today, everyone and their uncle -- yes, even Microsoft-- use Linux and open-source. A decade ago, Linux was under attack by SCO for imaginary copyright violations, and then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was claiming that Linux violated more than 200 of Microsoft's patents. So Open Invention Network (OIN) patent consortium was formed to defend Linux against intellectual property (IP) attacks. The stakes may not be so high today, but Linux and open-source software is still under attack from patent trolls and other attackers...

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Open Source Hardware For Renewable Energy + Manufacturing In Motion + Wikipedia Illustrated

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
September 20, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Hämeentie 135 C Helsinki MAKE auditorium
Helsinki
Finland

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GT.M Administration And Operations Course May 16-19 At GMU In Fairfax, VA

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
May 16, 2013 (All day) - May 19, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
George Mason University Fairfax, VA
United States

GT.M provides a tremendous breadth of functionality designed to to develop and deploy large scale applications. The GT.M Administration & Operations course provides training on setting up, managing, and troubleshooting GT.M environments. It it taught by KS Bhaskar who manages the GT.M for FIS and is a programmer and very knowledgeable about Linux... Read More »

OSEHRA Architecture Working Group Special Session Presentation: VistA Novo Demonstration

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When: 
January 13, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Sponsor: 
OSEHRA

You are invited to participate in the upcoming demonstration of “VistA Novo” scheduled for noon to 1 p.m., Monday, January 13th, 2014. The demonstration will show the feasibility of an open source VistA developer toolkit, VistA Novo, which allows developers to build VistA-based applications using mainstream development technologies. Read More »

Introduction To GenoCAD Sponsored Webinar Presented By OpenHelix

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When: 
March 27, 2014 - 6:00pm

Learn how to use GenoCAD, a Computer-Assited Design application for synthetic biology, Thursday, March 27th, at 18:00 p.m. UTC/2:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT.

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Red Hat Summit 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 14, 2014 (All day) - April 17, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
United States

Red Hat will hold its 10th annual Red Hat Summit at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 14-17, 2014. The Red Hat Summit brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration and customer success. This year's conference will feature a session on Red Hat technology in healthcare that will feature Dr. Seung Ki Mun from OSEHRA.

The session, which will be featured as a town hall meeting on Wednesday, April 16th, will also feature Don Frederick, Senior solution architect, Red Hat, Rob Barker, Director of Application Development at Cigna, and Brijesh Kalidindi, Senior IT manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.

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New features in OSEHRA's VistA Installation Scripts and usage with Vagrant

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
May 21, 2014 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Chris Edwards will be joining host Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney Webinar series to discuss new features in OSEHRA's VistA Installation Scripts and usage with Vagrant.  OSEHRA's Vagrant installer is a popular way to get a VistA instance running quickly for development or demo purposes. Many new features have been added to the scripts based on community feedback, and we will explore those new features during this webinar.

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29th VistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 2, 2014 - 8:00am - June 4, 2014 - 6:00pm
Location: 
George Mason University
United States

The upcoming 29th VistA Community Meeting (VCM), to take place June 2-4 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, is shaping up as a breakthrough gathering of technical experts on VistA and community members. The conference is bringing senior leaders from several US Federal Government agencies, including the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Indian Health Service (IHS) together with technical leaders of the VistA community to collaborate on improving the VistA and RPMS EHRs. Among many key topics, the conference will feature leading-edge technologies to connect VistA and RPMS with the latest devices, from smartphones and tablets to the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Achieve Intenet, Achieve Health & Pillsbury Co-Host Panel Event With Healthcare IT Industry Experts

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
June 18, 2014 - 7:30am - 9:30am
Location: 
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman offices
12255 El Camino Real Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92130
United States

Achieve Internet & Achieve Health will co-host a free executive breakfast on June 18th at 7:30AM with International Law firm Pillsbury in San Diego CA on How Open Source Software can benefit the Healthcare Technology sector...

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2014 LinuxCon And CloudOpen North America

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 20, 2014 (All day) - August 22, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Sheraton Chicago
301 East North Water Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4300
United States

LinuxCon, CloudOpen and co-located events showcase growth of Linux and open source principles across technology

LinuxCon and Cloud Open are the largest technical conferences focused on Linux and neutral open cloud technologies in North America and provide developers and operations and devops professionals with leading edge technical education and networking opportunities. Keynote and session speakers include leaders from the Linux kernel community and Cisco, Docker, edX, HP, Local Motors, MySQL, OpenStack, Puppet Labs, Spotify and many more.

Featuring more than 140 sessions and keynotes, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are co-located with a Community Development Workshop presented by community expert Jono Bacon, the Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Security Summit, #MesosCon, OpenDaylight Project Mini-Summit, a UEFI Mini-Summit, and Xen Project User Summit. CloudOpen is the only technical conference that focuses on the open cloud and those projects that comprise it all in one place, including CloudStack, Ceph, Gluster, KVM, OpenStack, Puppet, SaltStack, Xen Project and more...

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Wentz to Speak at OSEHRA's January Open Source Innovation Webinar

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
January 20, 2015 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
Webex event
United States

Robert Wentz, CEO of Oroville Hospital in Northern California, will discuss the financial factors that led the regional hospital to self-implement the open soruce VistA EHR, and and why every regional hospital in the United States should do the same thing. VistA was originally developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and it is used by more than 1,800 VA medical facilities. 

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OpenClinica 2015 Global Conference (OC15)

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 31, 2015 - 8:00am - June 2, 2015 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Lloyd Hotel and Cultural Embassy Amsterdam
Netherlands

OpenClinica’s Global Conference, or OC15, is a much-anticipated yearly event of networking, knowledge-exchange and innovation held to bring together the OpenClinica community, a group of users, developers, partners, and the team behind the open source electronic data capture (EDC) system with the same name. This year, OC15 will take place in Amsterdam, on May 31 - June 1, promising an exciting array of sessions, workshops and demos to showcase the community’s progress and facilitate new friendships and collaborations between organizations using and pushing OpenClinica forward.

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 23, 2015 (All day) - October 24, 2015 (All day)
Location: 
Seattle Central College
United States

SeaGL is the Emerald City's grassroots technical conference for free, libre, and open source software. The 3rd annual conference happens Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24 at Seattle Central College. Our keynote speakers this year will be Richard M. Stallman and Shauna Gordon-McKeon.

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Open Source Developers' Conference 2015

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 27, 2015 (All day) - October 29, 2015 (All day)
Location: 
Wrest Point Convention Centre Hobart
Australia

The Open Source Developers' Conference is a not-for-profit conference covering all aspects of Open Source Technology, from software and systems to open data. For the past 11 years OSDC has been held across Australia and New Zealand, and in 2015 will be hosted for the first time in Tasmania, from October 27-29 at the Wrest Point Convention Centre in Hobart. The focus for OSDC 2015 is Opening Up For A Better World. Open source software, hardware and standards facilitate higher quality technology, better security and faster innovation; open data allows us to better discover and understand the world we live in; open government aims to ensure that citizens can participate in their democracy; open access publishing exists to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon. Open by design is the best default.

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