Open Source Delivers

This week saw new companies joining the Linux Foundation, Microsoft open sourcing its scripting program and the VA naming the OSEHRA board of directors. Catch up on these stories and more: Mary Mosquera reported on the Department of Veteran Affairs OSEHRA board of director’s announcement in the Government Health IT article, “VA Open Source Group [...]

The Mobile World Congress took over the tech world this week, with many new product demonstrations and partnership announcements. Mozilla shared the news of its partnership with Telefónica to manufacture smartphones with the open source Boot 2 Gecko web operating system and Canonical demoed its new Ubuntu TV. But those weren’t the only open source [...]

It was another week filled with open source announcements. HP, Hortonworks and Ford all made news with new open source offerings. Here are this week’s highlights: Ravi Mandalia wrote about the UK Cabinet Office Director of ICT Futures’s recent supporting statements about open source software, “Liam Maxwell: “Open Source is the Future Model for Delivering [...]

There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week. Companies, communities, foundations and projects were all topics of conversation. Here’s a sample of this week’s open source news: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols gave his review on the Cinnamon throwback to GNOME 2.x with his ZDNet blog, “Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: Linux celebrated its 20th birthday, Eclipse turned 10 and LibreOffice surpassed the 1 year mark. The tech world grieved the loss of a visionary and [...]

Open source in government seemed to dominate the OSS dialog this week. In case you haven’t heard, the White House has made the Data.gov source code available on GitHub and is working with the Indian government to complete the “Data.gov-in-a-box”, Open Government Platform for other countries to utilize. While this is big news for potential [...]

While people were gobbling down their turkey dinners and fighting their way through the crowds on Black Friday, open source news didn’t stop…but “The Weekly Wrap Up” did! To make up for last week’s holiday break, I’m serving an extra helping of open sauce source today! Simon Phipps expanded upon Stephen O’Grady’s blog post, arguing [...]

Black Duck was a Platinum Sponsor at AnDevCon II this week. At our booth, we were giving away ducks and the opportunity to win a $100 Amazon gift card!  Attendees have been submitting creative photos of the Black Duck for our Duck Contest and I’ll be announcing the winner….at the end of this wrap up! [...]

Welcome to the first installment of the Weekly Wrap Up! Every Friday, I will provide a consolidated list of recent news, articles and blogs related to open source; a day (or week) in the life, so to speak. So without further ado, here are the stories that made up the open source universe this week: [...]