Archive for May, 2010
How the UK government can follow Obama’s open source revolution
The Obama White House is releasing custom open source code that it developed itself back to the Drupal community. The White House said that by releasing some of its code it will get the benefit of more people reviewing and improving it.
“This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify,” said Dave Cole, senior adviser to the CIO of the Executive Office of the President.
“We’re excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications.”
The Obama administration is releasing a module called Context HTTP Headers, which allows site builders to add new metadata to the content they serve. A second module addresses scalability by allowing integration with the Akamai Content Delivery Network.
GovDelivery is another module that enables the sending of more dynamic emails tailored to users’ preferences, while Node Embed makes sure all video and pictures on the White House site have the appropriate metadata to make them readable by screen reading software.
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OSOR needs more promotion
The visitors and users of the European Union’s Open Source Observatory and Repository, OSOR.eu, want the project to do more to promote itself. That is one of the conclusions of a user survey by Gartner, a market-research firm, completed in February.
Open source software development trend of the future: less profit, more ideas
Open source is not in the past we used to open source. Advantages and disadvantages of open source is the coexistence of open source.
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Open source headlines from the Open Government plans
The Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive ordered Federal agencies to produce open government plans by April 7th, and while some advocates are disappointed, we have before us a bewildering number of initiatives to improve transparency, collaboration, and participation across the Government. It will not surprise you to learn that I spent some time looking for places where open source is being used in these plans.
Open Source Center on Turkey’s “Ergenekon” underground movement
A new report from the Direction of National Intelligence Open Source Center (OSC) profiles Turkey’s subversive “Ergenekon” movement.
Firefox 1.1 Maemo Linuxra
Teljes weboldalak PDF állományokba történő archiválását is lehetővé teszi a Mozilla új Nokia N900-ra szánt böngészője.
Ubuntu Linux now available to U.S. government customers
Following Red Hat (Red Hat) and after Novell, Canonical Ubuntu software company by the U.S. General Services Administration (The US General Services Administration) priority procurement plan, and a third to the federal government provide Linux operating system manufacturers.
Public Sector Information (PSI) Data Catalogues
Why a listing of public sector information data catalogues?
Governments around the world are opening up their data for re-use.
- Open Data @ CTIC comments (Spanish) comments (English) that: the discussion is no longer about whether to create a data.gov but rather the question is ‘how to create it’.
- This page documents catalogues of where open government data can be found. In this sense, such documentation does provide access to where a re-user can find data. More importantly, the documentation on this page attempts to go beyond just providing a listing of catalogues showing where to find data.
- The Public Sector Information Catalogues presented on this page are organised by categories because not all catalogues are the same and the sources publishing the catalogues are different.
- Categorisation along with other information which will be published on this page works to understand the key features of catalogues and what makes them successful and to monitor the development of the catalogues or to learn more about the ‘how to create it’.
