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Federal Open Source Is Messy - And That's OK
Open source projects like the National Library of Medicine's Pillbox show potential of open innovation -- including competition with projects started elsewhere...
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How Crowdfunding And Open Source Research Will Fight Cancer
...A researcher named Isaac Yonemoto is applying some of the concepts of open source software initiatives to cancer research. Yonemoto is undertaking Project Marilyn, a campaign to develop a patent-free anticancer drug...
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Kitware To Showcase Advances In HPC And Visualization At SC14
Kitware, a leader in the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology, is exhibiting recent work in HPC and visualization at Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) in New Orleans, LA...
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Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Sing The Praises Of Open Source And Linux
Has Microsoft finally, truly warmed up to Linux and open source? New CEO Satya Nadella is definitely pushing that notion...
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New Open Knowledge Hub Launches At Open Development Camp
IDS launches new open knowledge hub at this year's Open Development Camp. A key aspect of the hub’s design is to raise the profile of diverse perspectives on development, paying particular attention to research content from developing countries...
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Separating The Opportunities From The Obstacles In Open-Source Networking
Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet...A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit...
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Technology Volunteerism For Social Good; How We Made Frontline Easier To Use
At Frontline, we believe that partnership and collaboration best help us drive positive social change. Today I’m delighted to share how our partnership with SocialCoding4Good, an initiative of Benetech, has resulted in great improvement to the FrontlineSMS contact search and selection capability, using our newly released Multi Selector tool...
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The tranSMART Foundation Announces New Version of the tranSMART Open Source Data Sharing Platform for the Life Sciences Community
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share their pre-competitive data, today announced the release of tranSMART version 1.1.
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To Be Permissive Or Not To Be Permissive, That Is The Question For Open Source Licensors
A new study of open source project growth suggests that choosing a permissive license can help your community to grow faster...
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tranSMART Foundation Launches Version 1.2 Of Its Open-source Knowledge Management Platform For Life Science Research
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced the release of tranSMART Version 1.2. Incorporating functionality developed and tested by several hundred community members from around the globe, this version offers extensions in analytics and analysis, data loading, search and retrieval as well as improved developer tools and interfaces that facilitate the addition of new features in the future...
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Why You Should Fork Your Next Open-Source Project
Code forks, rarely used, turn out to be remarkably effective at driving innovation, so why don't we use them more? Matt Asay explains...
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Would Jonas Salk Join The Open-Source Movement?
...While Salk’s lasting impression on medicine and its place in society is obvious, his philosophy on the patent-free development of the polio vaccine — and its applicability to the increasing influence of technology on biological and biomedical research — is also an important part of what he left behind...
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