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Netflix Open Sources Its Hadoop Manager For AWS
Netflix has open sourced its software to make running Hadoop jobs on the Amazon Web Services cloud as easy as possible. Read More »
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NETIC Infoservicios
Netic Infoservices 's mission is to spread the advantages of open source software for the health care profession. It is based in Argentina and services all the Spanish-speaking countries and regions.
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New Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds to Drive Industry Adoption of Open Source and Open Standards in IoT
The Eclipse Internet of Things (IoT) Working Group, an Eclipse Foundation collaborative working group, is pleased to announce the creation of the Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds, a new initiative to drive adoption of IoT open source and IoT open standards. The Testbeds will showcase and demonstrate how open source software and open standards along with commercial solutions can be used to create real-world, industry-specific IoT solutions...
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New From Netflix: Open-Sourced Gatekeeper To Improve The Delivery Of Web Services
Netflix is open sourcing yet another tool to augment the Amazon Web Services infrastructure it relies on to deliver streaming media to myriad devices. Read More »
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New Genomic Data Platform to Focus on Children’s Health Issues
Investigators from the University of Chicago Medicine will play a central role in a five-year, $14.8 million effort by the National Institutes of Health, contingent upon available funding, to improve the understanding of inherited diseases. The project, known as the Gabriella Miller Kids First pediatric data resource center, will be a multi-centered effort led by investigators at the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)...
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New Open Source App Helps Protect Children Displaced by Conflict
A life–saving service for vulnerable children caught up in crises is now available to government, aid agencies and social service workers through an open source app developed by UNICEF and its partners. The app known as Primero, facilitates the secure collection, storage and sharing of data to improve child protection, incident monitoring and family reunification services by key players in the humanitarian sector. The software is particularly crucial to the work of social workers in emergency situations to support children displaced by conflict...
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New Open Source Program Aims to Help Parents of Children in Foster Care
...a new open-source parenting program developed by Partners for Our Children, a center within the University of Washington’s School of Social Work, aims to help those parents become better caregivers and in turn, reunite families and reduce the costs associated with children in foster care.
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New Open Source Program Director Supports Students' Passions at the Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is well-known for its work in open source software through FOSS@MAGIC. In April 2014, RIT started to offer a minor in free and open source software. Students work on several different open source projects in their GitHub organization. One of the courses in the minor, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development, has students work with the One Laptop per Child XO laptops. Students create games that help teach New York and Massachusetts fourth grade math curriculum. Dan Schneiderman is the new head of the FOSS@MAGIC program at RIT...
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New open source tools available for openEHR archetype development
As part of an effort to expand the global openEHR community, Marand has decided to open source ADL Designer, a web -based archetype development tool. The tool allows visual authoring of ADL 2 archetypes and templates including full archetype parsing, validation, flattening and serialisation. Backward compatibility for existing ADL 1.4 archetypes and export to Operational Template (1.4 OPT) is also supported. Previously, Marand had also open sourced ADL2 core libraries to provide a java based reference implementation of the Archetype Definition Language ADL 2.0 and AOM specifications.
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New Open-Source Tool Makes It Easy To Tap Into Docker, The Cloud’s Next Big Thing
...[N]ow Docker has a helper of its own, an open-source project called Panamax that makes it easier to use Docker on the cloud. Docker packs applications into software “containers,” which contain everything required to run the application...
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New OpenStreetMap Editor By MapBox Heats Up The Mapping Sphere
May of 2013 was an exciting time if you are into maps. While Google overhauled Google Maps, OpenStreetMap has unveiled the iD editor by MapBox as it’s new, official map editor. Read More »
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New Promethean CEO Eyes Move To Open Source
In recent years, schools have shifted away from a front-of-the-classroom approach to one that puts tablets and laptops in each student's hands. Those devices have carved into other education technology businesses, namely interactive whiteboards, which offered educators a way to enhance the front-of-the-classroom experience. Read More »
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New Resource Spotlight: Discrete Choice Experiment User Guide
How can policy-makers formulate appropriate responses to address shortages of health workers in remote and rural areas? A new publication produced through close collaboration among the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and CapacityPlus proposes an innovative methodology—the discrete choice experiment (DCE)..... Read More »
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New US Digital Service Looks to Avoid IT Catastrophes
The second initiative went live on Monday, when the White House formally launched a United States Digital Service (USDS) and published an open source Digital Services Playbook and a “TechFAR,” a part of the guide that “highlights the flexibilities in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that can help agencies implement ‘plays’ from the Digital Services Playbook.” Read More »
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Nginx Takes The Slippery Road Away From Open Source
The popular upstart Web server released a proprietary Plus version this week. What could possibly go wrong? Read More »
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