Two top universities are collaborating on free online courseware, the European Union is developing an open source toolkit, Facebook’s Open Compute Project is gaining new members and you may be able to carry your desktop in your pocket sooner than you think. Here’s what happened in open source this week:
- Barb Darrow reported on the new open source online courseware from MIT and Harvard in her Gigom article, “MIT and Harvard Say Open-Source edX Can Educate a Billion People.”
- “EU-Funded Open Source Cloud Toolkit to Arrive in June,” was published on ITWorld by Sophie Curtis on the European Union launching a new open source toolkit to help build and run cloud applications.
- On opensource.com, Gunnar Hellekson gave a lesson on the “History of Open Source in Government.”
- Agam Shah reported on PCWorld about Facebook adding a number of large tech companies as members of its Open Compute Project: “Facebook’s Open-source Data-center Project Gains Strength.”
- “Industrial Robotics Gets Open-Source Boost,” by Ann R. Thryft on DesignNews dicussed how the Robot Operating System (ROS) platform used to develop the Raven II, will now help create open source industrial applications.
- On ZDNet, Yves de Montcheuil wrote a guest blog about open source vendors differentiating through innovation: “Open Source has Become Mainstream but Still Drives Innovation.”
- Simon Phipps wrote about how Ubuntu and Android are utilizing the open source Linux kernel to create a phone with a fully running and integrated desktop: “Ubuntu and Android: A Match Made in Open Source.”
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