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Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development.
The open-source model, or collaborative competition development from multiple independent sources, generates an increasingly more diverse scope of design perspective than any one company is capable of developing and sustaining long term. A report by the Standish Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.
In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in early 1998, and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This source code subsequently became the basis behind SeaMonkey, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and KompoZer.
In production and development, open source as a development model promotes universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.
Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. Open-source code is meant to be a collaborative effort, where programmers improve upon the source code and share the changes within the community. Typically this is not the case, and code is merely released to the public under some license. Others can then download, modify, and publish their version (fork) back to the community. Today you find more projects with forked versions than unified projects worked by large teams.
Zimbra is the leading provider of open source email collaboration software in the world. Zimbra provides governments, service providers, educational institutions and small/midsize enterprises with a low cost and customizable platform to securely exchange email, message, calendar, contact, files and task information from desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Learn more at https://www.zimbra.com
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman (Google) Every project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences.
Solar House 2.0, erected this year on Barcelona's waterfront, uses time-tested passive solar techniques, but it takes a high-tech leap forward using digital design and digital fabrication techniques to make it completely optimized for ideal solar gain. With its jagged cantilevers jutting out at odd angles across most of the facade (except the North corner), Solar House 2.0 looks, and acts, like few other buildings. Thanks to digital design, the building's structure was mathematically adjusted so that every point of the building was adapted to the exact conditions of the exterior. Software also played a lead role in the building's construction. Relying on 3D milling (for more on 3D printing see our video MakerBot: open source, self-replicating, stuff-making robot)- the Solar House designers...
Click Below to Subscribe watch more Free Software Reviews: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=tjopen1 You can find download links and more information at: http://tjfree.com/ Here are some of the best free 2D animation programs available: Inkscape - 2D Illistration program similar to Adobe Illistrator Pencil - Simple 2D frame by frame animation creator Tupi - More Advanced 2D frame by frame animation creator Scratch - Simple and fun animation and game creator Synfig Studio - Very advanced 2D animation creator Thanks For Watching
http://www.ted.com How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" produc...
Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Designed by the Flowers Lab at inria Bordeaux (France), its development aims at providing an affordable humanoid robot for Research and Education. Music: Four Tet - She Just Likes To Fight Buy on itunes: bit.ly/1pfkhQk Buy on amazon: amzn.to/1nseU0s Credits and more information: poppy-project.org (http://vimeo.com/poppyproject, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.fa...
This 23-minute tutorial uses all open-source software (MapWindow, qGIS, R, Google Earth), to simulate the effect of an industrial pollution abatement program (cap-and-trade) on neighboring districts, using simulated data from an emissions trading scheme pilot program initiated jointly by the Indian government and J-PAL (MIT Poverty Action Lab). This tutorial should serve as a plug-and-chug guide (along with its associated .pdf file) to navigating the basics of using open-source GIS software in applied economics research, including converting .kml to .shp files, creating polygon centroids, calculating a distance matrix, spatial queries, field calculations, projections, and symbologies. Manually adjust the video quality if it appears too low. Tutorial materials can be found here: https://bep...
David Cuartielles is a Spanish microchip engineer, Independent Design Professional, and Electronics Laboratory Director at Malmo University, Sweden. David is the creator and co-founder of Arduino, which is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring Platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. Cuartielles and his team share their discoveries with the rest of the world (Arduino can be built, bought, and sold by anyone, anywhere) with the idea that open-source hardware is fundamental to the advancement of the world's technology. ht...
Have you been wondering if proprietary software is better than open source software? Find which one has better quality control, community and transparency. https://www.zimbra.com/ Zimbra is all about security and data privacy. Our open platform implements deep security features as well as integrations with the most popular 3rd party security applications. In addition, Zimbra has scalable deployment options ensuring complete privacy for organizations from mid-sized service provider to large telecoms. In addition to helpful resources, Zimbra provides expert customer service. Learn more about Zimbra go to: https://www.zimbra.com/ Start A Free Trial Today! https://www.zimbra.com/try More Zimbra Channels: Website: https://www.zimbra.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Zimbra Facebook: http...
FOSSGIS 2016 get it an open source free software for long term ecological research
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With support from the Open Data Institute, this video explains how CogniCity open source software gathers and disseminates data to help the residents of megacities adapt to climate change. Jump ahead to chapter sections below: 0:11 - Chapter 1: Introduction 3:25 - Chapter 2: Cognicity Architecture 5:12 - Chapter 3: User Generated Reports 8:00 - Chapter 4: Report Verification 9:21 - Chapter 5: Data Diversity 10:51 - Chapter 6: Base Maps 11:51 - Chapter 7: Infrastructure Performance 13:14 - Chapter 8: Risk Evaluation Matrix 15:01 - Chapter 9: Rapid Assessment Reports 16:11 - Chapter 10: Secondary Use API 16:45 - Chapter 11: Cloud Computing 17:55 - Chapter 12: Future Deployments Find out more on GitHub: https://github.com/smart-facility/cognicity-server
This is for TMC3012 Ethics and Professionalism assignment use.
hey, you said it ain't bad to unveil your politics
and hey, you said it ain't bad to show your special tricks
you'll find out, wait patiently and let things take their course
hey, you shouldn't keep back your thoughts and good ideas
and hey, you shouldn't detect your ancient fears
it's yourself who keeps working the idea behind it all
(ref)
and the open source is on your mind
let the inspiration be your satellite
disclose your sources and feel free to gain an insight
hey, you said it ain't bad to believe in openness
and hey, you said it ain't bad to invest in your progress
it so easy to be part of it
hey, you said it ain't bad to unveil your politics
and hey, you said it ain't bad to show your special tricks
you'll find out, wait patiently and let things take their course
share the liberty, I care for the things in me
and pass them all to you
share the sources, enjoy the forces
that spread between us all
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.