A lot happened in open source, since our break last week; Google released the source code for Jelly Bean 4.1, the open source gaming console, Ouya, became the fastest growing Kickstarter campaign and the White House launched extensions of its Open Data Initiatives program. Let’s get right to the highlights:
- David Meyer covered the big Jelly Bean 4.1 open source release in the ZDNet article, “Google Open-Sources Android ‘Jelly Bean’ 4.1 for Third-Party Modification.”
- Reporting on the record breaking open source gaming console, Alex Wawro shares on PCWorld, “Why Ouya Is Making A Killing On Kickstarter.”
- On Forbes, Wenjia Zhao cleared up some open source misconceptions with OSI board member, Karl Fogel: “Beliefs and Misbeliefs about Open Source Software.”
- Fabian Scherschel covered the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s children’s programming contest in The H article, “Raspberry Pi Summer Code Contest for children announced.”
- On opensource.com, Casey Brown gave a review of the four principles Don Tapscott identified in his “Open World” TED talk (including a video of his presentation): “How to Survive in an Open World.”
- The Obama Administration published not one, but two blogs on Whitehouse.gov, announcing extended Open Data Initiatives in Education and Clean Energy, with the hopes of spurring entrepreneurship and creating jobs: See “Open Data for College Affordability and Better Student Outcomes” and “Open Data for a Clean, Secure Energy Future.”
Android is having a particularly good Friday the 13th with a new Nielsen study revealing that Android now has 51.8% U.S. market share!
