Pinboard: bookmarks for meryn tagged 'opensource'

Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security.

opensource project filesystem software from delicious
august 2011 by meryn

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ZSync

ZSync is an open source syncing library designed to allow easy syncing of data between an iPhone/iPod Touch and the OS X Desktop. 
ZSync utilizes the BLIP library and Apple’s Sync Services to allow easy and seamless syncing of data.

osx synchronization library opensource coredata syncservices ios bonjour from delicious
april 2011 by meryn

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Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project | Razor Fast

Dropbox’s censorship was nearly successful. In the aftermath Dropship all but disappeared from the internet. All public repositories and archives I could find were taken down. The takedown requests instilled fear in Dropbox users who didn’t wish to lose their account. I doubt van der Laan will continue developing Dropship. Even if he does it will most likely be private since he took his public repository down. 
 
To Ferdowsi’s credit, I understand his position. He’s trying to protect his company. His correspondence was friendly and non-threatening. He’s obviously a very intelligent person and probably made a snap judgement on how to do damage control. The DMCA takedown seems to have been an accident and he remedied it. 
 
In my unhumble opinion censorship is never an option. I’ve defied Ferdowsi’s requests and posted Dropship on my github account. If you are able to I’d love to see contributions.

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april 2011 by meryn

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UNHOSTED - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
de-jong personaldata opensource from delicious
april 2011 by meryn

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The 2cloud Project - Home

The 2cloud Project is aiming high. We want to enable users to move content between their devices seamlessly. Whether you're reading a webpage, watching a video, looking at pictures, or listening to music, we want to make it possible to move that content to whatever device is most convenient for you.

2cloud secondbit project opensource from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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DocumentCloud
annotating tool service documentcloud journalism opensource from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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nowjs for Node - Directly call remote functions in Javascript
node.js realtime software javascript opensource from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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Socket.IO: the cross-browser WebSocket for realtime apps.
node.js websocket javascript library opensource from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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boilerpipe - Project Hosting on Google Code

The boilerpipe library provides algorithms to detect and remove the surplus "clutter" (boilerplate, templates) around the main textual content of a web page.

html textextraction opensource project from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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jsaes: AES in JavaScript

jsaes is a compact JavaScript implementation of the AES block cipher. Key lengths of 128, 192 and 256 bits are supported.

javascript aes library opensource from delicious
march 2011 by meryn

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Project Danube | Open-Source Sofware for Identity & Personal Data Services

An open-source project offering software for identity and personal data services on the Internet. The core of this project is an XDI-based Personal Data Store - a semantic database for your personal data, which always remains under your control. Applications on top of this database include the Federated Social Web, the selective sharing of personal data with organizations, and much more.

opensource projectdanube software xdi
february 2011 by meryn

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Kod

Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X.

programming osx software opensource
february 2011 by meryn

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Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software

Gephi is a tool for people that have to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop but for data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden properties. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. It is a complementary tool to traditional statistics, as visual thinking with interactive interfaces is now recognized to facilitate reasoning. This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research.

data visualization software opensource
february 2011 by meryn

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Camlistore
opensource backup project slatkin fitzpatrick
january 2011 by meryn

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neo4j open source nosql graph database »

Neo4j is a graph database, a fully transactional database that stores data structured as graphs. A graph is a flexible data structure that allows for a more agile and rapid style of development.

opensource dbms java project
january 2011 by meryn

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Orient Technologies - Open source solutions built around the Orient DB

OrientDB is a deeply scalable Document-Graph DBMS with the flexibility of the Document databases and the power to manage links of the Graph databases. It can work in schema-less mode, schema-full or a mix of both. Supports advanced features such as ACID Transactions, Fast Indexes, Native and SQL queries. It imports and exports documents in JSON. Graphs of hundreads of linked documents can be retrieved all in memory in few milliseconds without executing costly JOIN such as the Relational DBMSs do.

opensource dbms project software json
january 2011 by meryn

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Raven DB

Raven is an Open Source (with a commercial option) document database for the .NET/Windows platform. Raven offers a flexible data model design to fit the needs of real world systems. Raven stores schema-less JSON documents, allow you to define indexes using Linq queries and focus on low latency and high performance.

opensource dbms software project linq json
january 2011 by meryn

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Treesaver: A new design for the web
html5 library opensource typesetting
december 2010 by meryn

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SABnzbd.org : Home of SABnzbd+, the Full-Auto Newsreader

SABnzbd makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.

opensource nntp python software
september 2010 by meryn

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AIE - (Ajax Image Editor) - Home

AIE (Ajax Image Editor) is a rich internet application for manipulating images online. It's works with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It uses HTML, JavaScript and Ext JS on client side and ImageMagick and PHP on server side.

editor extjs opensource javascript php imagemagick tool images
september 2010 by meryn

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Collaborative Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, available soon under GPL

A software companion to a 30+ year-old CIA research methodology, Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) will help you think objectively and logically about overwhelming amounts of data and hypotheses. It can also guide research teams toward more productive discussions by identifying the exact points of contention.

competinghypotheses burton-matthew analytics tool opensource software
august 2010 by meryn

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Collaborative Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, available soon under GPL

Collaborative ACH allows multiple analysts to assess the same set of evidence and hypotheses, and then automatically pinpoints the areas of greatest contention. The result is a much more focused, more productive discussion about a research team's disagreements. And because each team member can voice their opinions remotely and on their own time, there is less chance of a perceived consensus.

burton-matthew opensource software competinghypotheses
august 2010 by meryn

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CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead | Danger Room | Wired.com

Burton is under no illusions that open sourcing the ACH software suddenly means it’s going to embraced by a thousands analysts. “Most people in the community don’t know what open source is or they don’t care,” he says.

But for the government’s alpha geeks, it’s yet another example of why Washington’s bizarro-world rules surrounding software need to change. And there are signs — small, tentative signs — that some movement is under way.

opensource wired dangerroom cia burton-matthew article 2010
august 2010 by meryn

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OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges

Using the OpenStack software, any company can turn physical hardware into an internal/hybrid cloud platform. The new open source platform, which is going to be made available under an Apache license, will be maintained by a not-for-profit organization. Rackspace and NASA are adopting the platform as well. In addition, Rackspace is going to funnel resources and developers into the project to support the adoption of OpenStack by corporations and service providers. So far, the group has gained a lot of support, mostly from vendors. Nearly 25 companies (big and small) such as Intel, Citrix, Riptano, Dell, Cloud.com, AMD and Scalr have signed on for the new platform.

openstack rackspace nasa gigaom article 2010 opensource
july 2010 by meryn

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Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.

memory tool windows osx linux opensource learning distributedcognition
june 2010 by meryn

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mnutt/hummingbird @ GitHub

Hummingbird lets you see how visitors are interacting with your website in real time. And by “real time” we don’t mean it refreshes every 5 minutes—WebSockets enable Hummingbird to update 20 times per second. Hummingbird is built on top of Node.js, a new javascript web toolkit that can handle large amounts of traffic and many concurrent users.

node.js javascript monitoring tool realtime mongodb opensource
june 2010 by meryn

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Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook

Why can't privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That's the question being raised by those behind the new Diaspora project, an ambitious undertaking to build an "anti-Facebook" - that is, a private, open source social network that puts you back in control of your personal data.

Envisioned by four NYU computer science students, the Diaspora project would replace today's centralized social web (yes, they mean you, Facebook) with a decentralized one, while still offering something that's convenient and easy for anyone to use.

facebook distributed diaspora p2p opensource socialmedia readwriteweb 2010
may 2010 by meryn

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Terrier IR Platform

Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of large-scale retrieval applications.

opensource searching software
march 2010 by meryn

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Riak - A Decentralized, Internet-Scale Data Store

Riak combines a decentralized key-value store, a flexible map/reduce engine, and a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface to provide a database ideally suited for Web applications.

riak software opensource json http
february 2010 by meryn

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The Myth of Crowdsourcing - Forbes.com

Does crowdsourcing exist as it is popularly conceived? Yes, it does, but it doesn't have anything to do with innovation. Jigsaw, the community-created database of 16 million business contacts, is crowdsourcing. Tens of thousands of people have added business contacts to Jigsaw's database so they can earn points and get access to business contacts entered by others. Jigsaw sells this data to companies, generating millions in revenue. Jigsaw is the only true crowdsourced business I know of. The other businesses mentioned in the crowdsourcing category, Innocentive, Threadless, Spreadshirt, iStockPhoto, are really versions of Wikipedia, that is, aggregations of the inventions of individual virtuosos. Other large projects, like Linux, Apache ( APA - news - people ) and GIMP, are virtuoso creations around which consortiums of experts have gathered.

innovation collaboration crowd-powered wikipedia opensource motivation article 2009 forbes
october 2009 by meryn

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Tornado Web Server

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services.

tornado python opensource friendfeed realtime http framework
september 2009 by meryn

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The cathedral plus the bazaar: Open source and Apple (design) envy | The Open Road - CNET News

We want to innovate. We want to compete. And we want it now.

For that, you need a little more than open source, it seems, to make products usable. You need control, and control doesn't always jibe well with open-source development. This is one reason that we're seeing the emergence of the Open Core licensing model for open source.

opensource innovation christensen article 2008
july 2009 by meryn

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The New MySQL Landscape (by Jeremy Zawodny)

The Drizzle project is a re-making of MySQL started primarily by Brian Aker, who worked as MySQL's Director of Architecture for years. Brian is now at Sun and, along with a handful of others at Sun and elsewhere, is ripping out a lot of the stuff in a fork of MySQL that doesn't get used much, needlessly complicated the code, or is simply no longer needed. In essence, they're taking a hard look at MySQL and asking what it really needs to provide for a lot of it's uses today: Web and "cloud" stuff.

drizzle mysql zawodny article 2008 opensource
april 2009 by meryn

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A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web in Launchpad

The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu/core architecture. The code is originally derived from MySQL.

mysql drizzle opensource software
april 2009 by meryn

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drizzle.org
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Status.net Could Point to the Future of Business Intelligence - ReadWriteWeb

Companies will pay to have either public or private microblogging installations hosted and branded for them. They will do so because if they do not - their employees will have no group of allied professionals to securely cry out to for help with work problems. Their departments will remain out of touch and unfamiliar with the people and work being done around their own company. Companies without a microblogging system will seem as silly and disadvantaged in the future as companies do today that say "we don't need Instant Messaging, we have email," or "we don't need email, we have a fax machine."

opensource microblogging laconica status.net article readwriteweb kirkpatrick 2009 corporate datamining
march 2009 by meryn

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Control Yourself » status.net coming soon

I’ve been telling people for a few months that one of our plans for commercializing the Identica software and getting more people on the OpenMicroBlogging network is to have a hosted service for new microblogging communities. I wanted to get out some information about the upcoming service — I’m really excited about the prospective launch. Note that all of the following is preliminary information and may change before launch.

opensource microblogging status.net article 2009 identi.ca laconica
march 2009 by meryn

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Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems | Sharing at Work

I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how to promote web-based collaboration and socialization tools at work for the better part of a year now, and I’m starting to think that my initial approach of working the problem from within my IT organization might be the wrong one. We IT types are trained to approach IT problems in terms of risk management and cost savings. Neither of those are obvious strong points for social software, even though they may be great productivity boosts in the future. Perhaps this diversity and inclusion angle is exactly what we need to get some more social collaboration champions on board!

facebook diverse inclusiv sharing networking corporate article 2009 opensource fbopen
march 2009 by meryn

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Open Source Currency - Or, how mobile phones can break the money monopoly. By Douglas Rushkoff

What if we could use our cell phones to confirm transactions with one another as simply as pressing a button? We don't even need to shake hands with each other, only with the central server, which can confirm that both parties have agreed. As Paul put it in an email, "enabling the back-end for a truly decentralized marketplace with buyers, sellers, traders, and sharers is the open-source 'killer app' of the next century."
Killer app of the century? He may not be overstating the case. After all, if people can conduct transactions efficiently with alternative currencies, then they may look for those that have lower premiums than the US dollar.

opensource mobile hartzog rushkoff financial article 2009 paying
march 2009 by meryn

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Reality Sandwich | Beyond Brand Obama

Those of us hoping to build communities, improve our schools, invigorate our local economies, restructure our land use, or reduce our energy dependence mustn't equate a presidential campaign with substantive change. Obama may be a convenient conceptual placeholder for these concerns, as well as a person capable of dismantling a good amount of America's more fascistic and militaristic infrastructure. But the only way he'll even have the latitude to behave in a slightly more enlightened manner than his predecessors will be if we, the actual people on the ground, have chosen to live more consistently with those goals. If he's president of a nation of fast-food-eating, bigoted, and selfish SUV drivers, he'll prove as powerless as Cheney was malicious. And the results will be the same.

rushkoff obama article 2008 branding marketing participatory democratic opensource mythic crowd-powered
march 2009 by meryn

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Opening up the Feedly Digest Filtering Logic « Building Feedly

This idea was inspired by a comment make by Sean McBride on Friendfeed last week: “I wish that every company in this game would make their algorithms transparent so that we could understand what’s underneath the hood in producing certain results” and the progress we made last week by working with Phil on this thread on Get Satisfaction. Special thanks to both Phil and Sean.

mcbride feedly article 2009 open filtering opensource transparent
march 2009 by meryn

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Victor Keegan: Can we build a world with open source? | Technology | The Guardian

while financial capitalism is in global meltdown, a completely different kind of entrepreneurial activity - call it commune-ism - is rising, from an admittedly low base. This is the act of doing things for the common good, for nothing - either from altruistic motives or because you expect to get compensated by using the product of someone else's free endeavours. Until recently, this kind of activity - known generically as "open source" - has been confined to software through such brilliant communal projects as Wikipedia, the Firefox browser (which now has 21.5% of the global market) or the Linux operating system. Interestingly, such products don't appear in the figures for gross domestic product (GDP) - at least, not until they are used in something that can be bought, such as a low-cost Linux computer. It is unrecorded wealth and if the movement grows we will have to look afresh at how we measure the wealth of nations.

guardian keegan article 2009 opensource hexayurt gupta openmoko
march 2009 by meryn

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Globally, Deaths From Measles Drop Sharply - washingtonpost.com

The initiative is the first mass health project in the developing world to use hand-held computers in coverage surveys conducted to measure the success of interventions. Normally, that work is done with pen, paper and clipboard, and tabulating data takes weeks or months. In October 2005, surveyors in tsunami-struck Aceh province of Indonesia figured out immediately after a vaccination campaign that as many as 70 percent of children had been missed in some districts. Vaccinators, who had not yet dispersed, were sent back to vaccinate in those areas. More recently, surveyors in Africa have been using pocket computers loaded with an open-source program, EpiSurveyor, developed by a Washington-based nonprofit, DataDyne, to track coverage after supplemental measles vaccination campaigns.

episurveyor opensource washingtonpost article 2007
march 2009 by meryn

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EpiSurveyor: Saving Lives with Open Source - Boing Boing Gadgets

Because EpiSurveyor is aimed primarily at developing economies, it's designed to run on PDAs and mobile phones. The latest version is designed to run on mobile phone— not necessarily even smartphones, but the standard GSM handsets that are used all over, and to transmit collected data back to a central repository via SMS. "I go to all these conferences where they talk about Web 2.0," Selanikio said, "And they don't understand that I'm trying to build SMS 2.0." In the countries where EpiSurveyor is being put to use, like recent pilot programs in Kenya and Zambia, there is usually no web access in the first place.

episurveyor opensource mobile sms datadyne article 2007
march 2009 by meryn

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Concurrence — Concurrence Framework v0.2 documentation

Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python.

opensource python programming framework
march 2009 by meryn

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PyBrain

PyBrain is a modular Machine Learning Library for Python. It's goal is to offer flexible, easy-to-use yet still powerful algorithms for Machine Learning Tasks and a variety of predefined environments to test and compare your algorithms.

opensource python library machinelearning
march 2009 by meryn

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280 North

Our first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable. Beyond 280 Slides, we're enabling the next generation of web applications with our new application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL.

280north opensource company cappuccino objective-j
march 2009 by meryn

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Cappuccino Web Framework - Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.

opensource cappuccino framework objective-j
march 2009 by meryn

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Does it take a disaster to understand the power of open development? at OSS Watch team blog

The success of Sahana is a result of the fact that the open development model, when applied correctly, just works. I personally believe that Sahana would not have been possible in the time frames and budgetary restrictions of the real world, if a closed model with tight management structures had been employed. Certainly, the lack of any pre-existing disaster management software would seem to support this. What was needed was the arrival of just the right leadership and just the right motivation for those willing to help realise the vision.

sahana article 2008 leading opensource currion humanitarian
february 2009 by meryn

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Pablotron: PersistJS: Cross Browser Client-Side Persistent Storage Without Cookies

PersistJS [...] currently supports persistent client-side storage through the following backends: * flash: Flash 8 persistent storage. * gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage. * localstorage: HTML5 draft storage. * whatwg_db: HTML5 draft database storage. * globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec). * ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors. * cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.

opensource javascript gears flash programming library
february 2009 by meryn

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mesh4x - Google Code

A data mesh allows information to be synchronized in a peer-to-peer way, allowing offline work, and synchronizing with whoever is available, not just a central database or a service on the internet. This makes it a perfect fit for situation where there is little/no connectivity or where the synchronization has to happen between different applications and services. For example, one might create a data mesh that associates and synchronizes structured data from a Microsoft Access Database with a mobile phone running a Java XForms application and with an online Google spreadsheet. Changes made on any one endpoint eventually sync to all of the other endpoints in the mesh. This architecture offers unique benefits for cross-organizational information sharing, particularly in austere communications environments.

opensource software synchronizing mesh4x instedd feedsync sms
february 2009 by meryn

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The Do-Good Imperative

The qualities that make a product good for the developing world—sturdy, cheap, adaptable, modular, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, computer platform-neutral, and bandwidth-savvy—make it a good product, period. Suddenly "less is more" goes from abstract design ideal to the only viable option. This is why some of the most innovative ideas today are coming from efforts to address the needs of those most in need.

innovative ethical sturdy cheap article 2008 green opensource
february 2009 by meryn

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SAHANA | Free and Open Source Disaster Management System

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

opensource php humanitarian sahana project software
february 2009 by meryn

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Mobile Phones in Crisis & Disaster Situations | White African

we each have an immense amount of respect for what each of the other groups is doing. Ushahidi’s focus is on gathering distributed data from civilians for visualization, InSTEDD is focused on collaboration, and UNICEF is trying to figure out how that works within groups and communities. One consistent message is this: every crisis situation differs, so we need to build tools that are open and free for anyone to access. It’s a little like all of us creating different Lego pieces that go into the Lego box for everyone else to use.

mobile unicef ushahidi opensource instedd hersman article 2008 mesh4x rapidsms
february 2009 by meryn

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Disaster Relief Through Sahana

While the rest of the world has moved on, for the most part, the Sahana team has made something that will last and has the capacity to help in future - and even present - disasters. We often hear discussion about how cost-effective Free Software and Open Source (FOSS) are, and regard them in a business sense - but here the true value is apparent. But this is bigger than a FOSS discussion, this is about people helping each other in a time of need.

worldchanging sahana article 2005 opensource
february 2009 by meryn

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Flourish: A developer-friendly PHP library

Flourish is an object-oriented PHP 5 library designed to reduce code and improve security. It’s not an MVC framework and it doesn’t try to solve every problem. Instead, it focuses on being small, portable, well documented and easy to use.

opensource php library flourish flourishlib
february 2009 by meryn

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GACL | Linux Journal

What Google's doing with GACL is opening up the Net. Everything Google does to improve the Net's infrastructure — from investing in fiber backbones to building "cloud" servers, apps and services — widens the range of what people can do on the Net. [...] Look at the success Apple is having with the closed and proprietary iPhone, which is essentially a data device on which telephony is just one application among countless others. What happens when the best-debugged devices are driven by GACL, without limitations imposed by any one company's lock-ins?

mobile opensource android gacl google gears article 2008 iphone apple linux
february 2009 by meryn

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Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
mysql osx opensource tool software
february 2009 by meryn

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Whoosh

Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python.

indexing python searching library software opensource
february 2009 by meryn

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Stimuluswatch.org; The Falling Cost and Accelerated Speed of Group Action - O'Reilly Radar

None of these people knew each other previously. They were brought together by blog post into a common effort. They used open source tools in rapid development. They plugged in off the shelf online social technologies (disqus, tumblr and mediawiki) to create a forum to discuss these local projects. They achieved this in seven weeks. In fact, according to Peter, “the real effort here was more like two weeks”.

grassroots organizing article 2009 opensource
february 2009 by meryn

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Relational Tag Cloud | mndl.hu

The del.icio.us relational tag cloud generator python script is released under the GPL license. Its output is an MXML file that can be compiled to flash using the Adobe Flex 2 compiler. The MXML requires the SpringGraph Flex Component by Mark Shepherd.

del.icio.us python visualization tagging relational opensource tool
february 2009 by meryn

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'Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Technology' - Business Center - PC World

One of the most widely talked-about platforms today also emerged from the ashes of another significant event, this time the troubles following Kenya's disputed elections in late 2007. With everyday Kenyans deprived of a voice at the height of the troubles, a team of African developers created a site that allowed citizens to report acts of violence via the Web and SMS, incidents that were then aggregated with other reports and displayed on a map. Ushahidi -- which means "witness" in Kiswahili -- provided an avenue for everyday people to get their news out, and news of its launch was widely hailed in the mainstream press. Putting Ushahidi together is a textbook study in rapid prototyping and collaboration. In the past few months, the project has also gone from strength to strength, has been implemented in South Africa to monitor acts of anti-emigrant violence, won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge and was runner-up in the recent Knight-Batten Awards.

opensource mobile ushahidi frontlinesms banks pcworld article 2008 kiva
february 2009 by meryn

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TED: Negroponte Says OLPC Started Netbook Craze; Will Open-Source Its Hardware

[Negroponte] decried the influence for-profit companies have had on OLPC, saying commercial markets have competed with the project mercilessly. And OLPC’s hardiness and specialization for children have not been replicated in netbooks, whereas they are some of the most important aspects of the product. OLPC has half a million devices in use today, and they are even being used by kids to teach their parents how to read and write.

negroponte opensource gigaom olpc article 2009
february 2009 by meryn

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Welcome to MapServer — MapServer 5.2.1 documentation

MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Originally developed in the mid-1990’s at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is released under an MIT-style license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

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february 2009 by meryn

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Drupal s Creator Envisions Web Publishing s Plug - Webmonkey

Our goal is to become to Drupal what Red Hat and Canonical are to Linux. If you want a supported version of this open-source software, you come to us and pay a subscription. You get a distribution, a set of services for maintenance and updates plus access to our tech support center. So let’s say you’re running a large-scale media site and you’ve built all of your front-end infrastructure on Drupal. You need an answer about something, and you want the ability to pick up the phone and have an answer within an hour rather than send an e-mail and wait a day, or wait for the appropriate person to log in on IRC. On the other end of the spectrum is the small site that needs help with installing modules or managing updates. It’s a well-proven open-source business model. The other role we can play at Acquia is supporting the Drupal development community.

buytaert acquia drupal redhat canonical webmonkey interview 2008 opensource
february 2009 by meryn

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Citizen journalism, from text message to map - Springwise

A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log reports of violence during the post-election fallout of early 2008; a period when mainstream media was banned. A new Ushahidi engine is currently in development that will allows users to SMS, email or an online form to submit reports that are then flagged on a map that anyone can view to gain a speedy understanding of where issues are happening.

mobile opensource ushahidi article 2008 crowd-powered
february 2009 by meryn

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Negroponte on the New (lowercase): olpc | White African

We want to build something that everybody copies. Go from the OLPC to the olpc (lowercase). That’s what’s going to happen over the next 3 years. Open source hardware: where you publish all the specs and all the designs so that anyone can copy it. In a side conversation with Ethan Zuckerman here, this is what they should have done 3 years ago, and it would have saved them a lot of heartache.

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february 2009 by meryn

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Mozilla Gives $100,000 Grant Towards An Open Video Format For The Web

Beyond the compression algorithms, what is especially exciting about Theora is that as an open-source project it might be easier for it to eventually evolve into a format that can more easily interact directly with other documents and data types on the Web. Videos should include more hyperlinks, for instance, and become part of the very fabric of the Web rather than an exception, which is still how it is treated today.

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Mozilla contributes $100,000 to fund Ogg development - Ars Technica

Open Web standards have evolved considerably over the years and browser compatibility is better than ever, but one important area where standards are just starting to catch up is support for streaming video. Proprietary browser plugins are used extensively across the web to play video from popular sites. This creates serious lock-in risk and gives proprietary software vendors like Adobe a lot of control over the medium. Although alternatives such as Microsoft's Silverlight are beginning to change the game and force Adobe to open up, there still isn't a viable, vendor-neutral, standards-based alternative that can shift the balance of power over to end-users and tear down some of the walls that limit how video content is experienced on the Web. Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation have launched an initiative to help improve the quality of open, standards-based video technology.

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february 2009 by meryn

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Christopher Blizzard · why open video?

Although videos are available on the web via sites like youtube, they don’t share the same democratized characteristics that have made the web vibrant and distributed. And it shows. That centralization has created some interesting problems that have symptoms like censorship via abuse of the DMCA and an overly-concentrated audience on a few sites that have the resources and technology to host video. I believe that problems like the ones we see with youtube are a symptom of the larger problem of the lack of decentralization and competition in video technology - very different than where the rest of the web is today.

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february 2009 by meryn

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WordPress makes a stand for open source morality | Technology | The Guardian

Open source software is nothing new, but Mullenweg sees a change taking place. "In the past open source has been focused on developers. Within the last few years we've had a rise to prominence of consumer open source applications. That's a new set of challenges. If you're building something for a server, there's usually a defined output which is right or wrong. In consumer applications there are different ways, which aren't necessarily better or worse, so people have strong opinions."

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february 2009 by meryn

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United Nations 2.0

Described by my colleague as “closed and insular,” the UN is quickly losing its convening power and ultimately its relevance in addressing the global challenges that matter. Its power and authority have been usurped; by the US’s unilateralism on one hand, and by a multitude of more nimble and innovative stakeholder networks that have emerged to fill the leadership void—networks that compete with the UN and other international organizations for attention, loyalty and funds. If there was ever a time when the UN needed to embrace open source principles, this is it.

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february 2009 by meryn

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7 lessons from Mozilla on community building | The Open Road - CNET News

Given that there is no One True Way to do open source, what are some key principles for aiding, though not ensuring, the success of a project? Lily cites seven lessons that can be derived from the Mozilla experience.

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january 2009 by meryn

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