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ICE Contract With GitHub Sparks Developer Protests

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: The Atlantic summary: With 37 million users, GitHub is the largest host of source code in the world. Much of the code hosted on GitHub is open source, meaning it’s accessible, shareable, and modifiable to anyone.

Introducing Mozilla Open Leaders X

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Mozilla Foundation summary: Here are the new, community-run Open Leaders programs with diverse audiences that serve as entry-points into the internet health movement. From September through November, these programs have gone through movement building training and program-design mentorship in preparation to launch their own Open Leaders program in 2020.

A story of hobbies and a hobby of stories

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: SCIENTISTNOBEE summary: None authors: SCIENTISTNOBEE link to paper: https://scientistnobee.wordpress.com/a-story-of-hobbies-and-a-hobby-of-stories/ Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

SignalBuddy

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: OpenBehavior summary: None authors: Richard Warren link to paper: http://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/2019/09/19/signalbuddy/ Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

The Open Know-How Manifest Specification

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: StandardsRepo summary: Open Know-How is all about sharing how to make things. With dozens of open hardware organisations and over 80 content-hosting platforms and thousands of designers sharing open hardware designs Open Know-How is making it easier to share and find documentation on how to make things and will reduce crossover/duplication of effort across sectors.

How to support open-source software and stay sane

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: Nature Toolbox summary: Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers. It’s a familiar problem: open-source software is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably.

Open Source Is Good, but How Can It Do Good?

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: Linux Journal summary: The Open Source world may not be so explicit about the underlying ethical aspect, but most coders probably would hope that their programming makes the world a better place.

Open Hardware: Open-Source MRI Scanners Could Bring Enormous Cost Savings

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: 3DPrint.com summary: None authors: Bridget O’Neal link to paper: https://3dprint.com/247312/researchers-discuss-potential-open-source-mris-enormous-savings-cost/ Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

The WIRED Guide to Open Source Software

Publishing date: 2019-07-04 Published on: WIRED summary: Now open source is practically everywhere. Walmart uses open source software like the development platform Node, and it has opened up the code of its cloud management tool OneOps and its development platform Electrode.

UV Transilluminators and Imaging on the Cheap

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