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Tag Archives: open source
Meanwhile back in the lab…
Bristol Wireless was donated* some redundant laptops yesterday that were surplus to requirements. Their arrival has encouraged volunteer Acesabe to try experimenting, as about an hour ago he tweeted: Think I’ll have a pop at installing ChromeOS on one of … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless News, Open Source News, Recycling, Volunteering
Tagged open source, volunteering
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A DFD free gift for politicians
Do you know a certain politician who should really learn more about Open Standards? This is the question that the Free Software Foundation Europe has asked in the last couple of days. The article goes on to ask readers if … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless News, International Events, International IT News, National IT News, Open Source News
Tagged #ukgovOSS, events, ODF, open data, open source, open standards
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Iceland’s public sector increasing use of free and open source
All public sector organisations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software, Joinup reports, and the country’s government recently launched a one year migration project for all of its departments. Project leader Tryggvi Björgvinsson states: “The … Continue reading
28th March is Document Freedom Day
This year’s Document Freedom Day, which celebrates information accessibility and raises awareness of Open Standards, will take place on Wednesday, 28th March. Here in Bristol Wireless, we’ve been using the Open Document Format (ODF) Open Standard for exchanging documents internally … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless News, International Events, International IT News, Open Source News
Tagged event, events, open source, open standards
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In about one month’s time (April 21st to be precise, according to Sam Downie. Ed.) a delegation of Bristol Wikipedians is due to visit Monmouth. Why Monmouth you may ask? And why Wikipedians too? What has a small Welsh town … Continue reading
Flossie 2012 – Submissions deadline extended to 19th March
Back in October, we gave very early notice (news passim) of the 2012 Flossie Unconference taking place in London on 25th and 26th May 2012 at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS (map). News has now … Continue reading
Posted in National Events, National IT News, Open Source News
Tagged event, free software, hacking, open source, social change
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Latest CiviCRM release – now with WordPress integration
The latest release (version 4.1.1) of CiviCRM, the open source customer relationship management (CRM) system for non-profits, NGOs and advocacy organisations, now features integration for WordPress, in addition to its traditional integration for the Joomla and Drupal content management systems. … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Local Events, Local IT News, Open Source News
Tagged event, open source
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VALO-CD Finnish free & open source goodness
We Linux users are spoilt; we benefit from using free and open source software every day. Now Windows users can once again* benefit from it more, with the launch of the VALO-CD (VALO is the Finnish acronym for Free & … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Media and Content, Open Source News
Tagged free software, Linux, open source
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FSF invites you to enter the Restricted Boot Comic Contest
Earlier today, your ‘umble correspondent (are you really a letter writer composed entirely of deer offal? Ed. ) received the email below from the Free Software Foundation. In December, Microsoft apparently conceded to public pressure by quietly updating the Windows … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Media and Content, Open Source News
Tagged free software, Linux, open source
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Open source is of better quality than proprietary software
The H-Online reports that Coverity’s latest Coverity Scan Open Source Report has found that the quality of open source code is equal to, or even better than that of proprietary software. All told, Coverity analysed over 37 million lines of … Continue reading