From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, cloud, social media and auto…and you’re not going to miss any of it!
- Scott Merrill reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s announcement of its open source policy in his TechCrunch article, “U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Gets Open Source, Publishes on GitHub.”
- InformationWeek published an article from J. Nicholas Hoover on NASA’s new web architecture and open data efforts in its refocused Open Government Plan: “NASA’s New Web Plans Stress Open Source, Cloud.”
- On VentureBeat, Jolie O’Dell reported on Twitter’s decision to open source its MySQL work: “Twitter open sources its MySQL work.”
- “Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs” was published on Txchnologist by Morgen E Peck on the open source electric vehicle project, Tumanako.
- On ComputerWorldUK, Glyn Moody blogged about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, which is run entirely on open source: “Another Billion-Dollar Open Source Company: Instagram.”
- Ted Samson published, “Heavy hitters throw weight behind future OpenStack Foundation,” on InfoWorld about IBM, Red Hat, HP, Cisco and Dell all being confirmed as members of the OpenStack Foundation.
- Wired Enterprise published an article by Robert McMillan on Netflix’s plans to release the source code for its cloud software programs: “Netflix To Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys.”
- On ZDNet, Paula Rooney reported on VMware’s launch of the open source project, BOSH, and re-engineering of CloudFoundry.org: “VMware: Cloud Foundry PaaS will be the ‘Linux’ of the cloud.”
Wishing you good luck on this Friday the 13th 
