Ushahidi tracks the Gulf Oil Spill: Open Source Crowdsourcing at Work
On April 20th, 2010, a methane gas explosion ripped apart the operational oil rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico. This accident has become a catastrophe – the largest…
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Brazil and India: The Next Generation of Open Source
Those of us who follow the growth of open source in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) know that both Brazil and India are leveraging open source at a…
Your Chance To Change OSI
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There’s no doubt that we need OSI – but we need…
OSI Committee Chairs Election for 2010-2011
Earlier this month, the OSI board held elections for the organization’s committees. Board members interested in working on OSI initiatives such as membership, education, policy and economic development, outreach submitted…
Oh and one more thing…open source does support piracy…
And by my earlier criticism of the IIPA position that open source == piracy…there might be something to that. Feel free to copy and distribute any of the open source…
To Microsoft, Open Source means “Windows Encumbered”
One of the most interesting things to happen in the past couple of years, is Microsoft’s embrace of Open Source. This means different things to various people I’ve spoken with…
Open Source Education: OSI co-organizing POSSE in Silicon Valley from July 6-10, 2010
Open Source Software has come a long way in the last decade. It has gone from being bleeding edge to becoming mainstream. Every aspect of computing, from the operating system…
Re: VP8 and WebM–Thank you, Google! (P.S. Let’s talk)
It was more than a month ago that I started my pilgrimage to Texas to prepare for and participate in a court case in East Texas, but it still seems…
Open Source HardWare Definition
Some friends of Open Source are banging out an OSHW definition. They’re doing a good job so far. If you’re making open source hardware, make sure that you comply with…
Patent Absurdity
Our friends over at the Free Software Foundation were kind enough to send me an advance copy of their new documentary to preview. It’s entitled Patent Absurdity and it tells…
Let’s Unlock Our Data
Today is Document Freedom Day. It is a day marked around the world for document liberation. It also highlights the importance of using open standards and open data formats for…
Welcoming OSI’s new board members
The OSI board elections were held earlier this month and the board voted in a new slate of directors starting April 1st, 2010. I would like to welcome our three…