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MuleSoft Joins Linux Foundation Open API Initiative to Accelerate Innovation in API Specifications
MuleSoft, provider of the leading platform for building application networks, today announced that MuleSoft has joined the Open API Initiative (OAI) guided by the Linux Foundation. In addition, MuleSoft CTO Uri Sarid, creator of the open RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) for API specification, will participate in the Technical Developer Committee to help steer OAI technologies. OAI's ability to drive a connected global economy with APIs founded on top of an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) will be enhanced by the addition of MuleSoft...
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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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NASA and OpenStack Not Lost in Space — or in the Cloud
A couple of weeks ago, just before GigaOM Structure (the cloud equivalent of short Indian Wedding), Twitter and the headlines rang out with the news that NASA, home of the space program, the Apollo moonshot, the International Space Station, and the space shuttles, was retiring yet another of its signature innovations: OpenStack. Read More »
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NASA Cloud Update, OpenStack and Open Source with Ames CIO Ray O’Brien
NASA Ames Chief Information Officer Ray O’Brien joins us to discuss NASA’s development role with OpenStack and related announcements, NASA Nebula, open source software and NASA’s future role as a “smart consumer” of commercial cloud computing services.
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NASA Looks to Lower Open Source Licensing Barriers
The recent launch of code.nasa.gov is providing better access to NASA sourced and funded projects, but William Eshagh of the NASA open government team says some forthcoming open-source licensing changes will make it more participatory.
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NASA Promotes Open Source with New Website
NASA has added a new website and public forum to a growing list of efforts dedicated to the agency's open-source strategy. Through code.nasa.gov, the agency plans to "continue, unify and expand" its open-source activities by posting information about and providing an online hub for its open-source activities, according to a blog post by William Eshagh of NASA's Ames Research Center. Read More »
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NASA Successfully Tests 3D Printed Rocket Components
The use of printers in space to make everything from food and tools to rocket parts aims to reduce costs and improve safety. Read More »
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NASA Wants to Put Web Services in Agile-Like Cloud
NASA’s Office of the CIO is looking for contractors to improve management of its websites — primarily www.nasa.gov — and ancillary services including content management, search, and collaborative tools such as blogs and wikis.
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NASA Wants Your Help Finding Asteroids, Tracking Weather
We believe that tomorrow’s space and science systems will be built in the open. This isn’t NASA’s first experiment in open sourcing. The open.NASA project is working on open-source cloud computing, on-demand videos, citizen engagement tools, and more.
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NASA's Nick Skytland and William Eshagh on the New code.nasa.gov Open Source Initiative
AUDIO - FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell talks with NASA’s Nick Skytland and William Eshagh about the agency’s new open source project code.nasa.gov.
On January 4, NASA launched the agency-wide open source initiative, aimed at centralizing the agency’s open source software efforts and creating a collaborative environment to discuss issues related to its use.
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National ONC Blockchain Challenge Explores Micro-Identities to Improve Healthcare Interoperability
A lot has been written covering blockchain and healthcare over the past year. From articles on blockchain applications for healthcare to articles by healthcare industry experts exploring blockchain technology as the solution for healthcare interoperability. In early 2016 Forbes published an article titled "How Blockchain Could Change the World." The world is talking about uses of blockchain in the financial services industry. This seems reasonable given that there has been $1.2 billion invested in blockchain startups. The majority of these investments have been within the financial sector...
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National Rosacea Society Awards New Grants for Open Medical Research
The National Rosacea Society (NRS) announced it has awarded funding for three new studies, in addition to continuing support for three ongoing studies, as part of its research grants program to increase knowledge and understanding of the causes and other key aspects of rosacea that may lead to improvements in its management, prevention or potential cure...Dr. Benjamin Kaffenberger, assistant professor of dermatology at the Ohio State University, and colleagues were awarded $25,000 to develop a computer program for a rosacea scoring system that will identify and count rosacea lesions and measure redness to provide reliably reproducible scores for physicians and patients...
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Navigating the Challenges of International Teamwork
I started my open source work from Oregon, USA working on a project in the "Republic" of Texas. While that, at first glance, does not sound international in nature, I can assure you that Oregon and Texas might as well be different countries. I experienced both the joy and frustration of working with users from both places that had big cultural differences, as well as overlapping needs. This early experience laid the groundwork for the future, where I got to work at the international level on OpenEMR, an electronic healthcare records system...
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NCI Site Hacked -- Or Was It?
A group of hackers known as "LulzSecEurope” claimed they breached the National Cancer Institute’s website on Oct. 31, but the agency says the alleged hack didn’t happen. Read More »
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NCSU Hosts One-Day Introduction to Open Source
It’s something of a grand experiment and it’s being being hosted this weekend on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. What it is might be called a miniconference, but let’s not call it that. “Mini” indicates smallness, and there’s nothing small about this event, even if it is only a single day affair. Let’s call it a full fledged conference. The students attending will like that. It’ll make them feel important and so grown-up — which they are, actually...
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