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Is Open Source Project Participation Worthwhile?

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: Forbes summary: Matthew Barlocker is the Founder and CEO of AWS monitoring software startup “Blue Matador”, and discusses here the specific benefits of contributing to an open source project.

A low-cost do-it-yourself microscope kit for hands-on science education

Publishing date: 2018-10-01 Published on: SPIE Digital Library summary: A low cost microscope kit “the other way round”: instead of requiring the user to peer through eye-pieces, this design aligns a series of lenses around a sample plane and shines light through the centre to project the greatly magnified image onto a piece of paper that can be comfortably observed with the naked eye.

Open source capillary electrophoresis

Publishing date: 2018-10-01 Published on: Electrophoresis summary: Open source paradigm is becoming widely accepted in scientific communities and open source hardware is finding its steady place in chemistry research. In this review article, Petr Kubáň et al provide the reader with the most up‐to‐date information on open source hardware and software resources enabling the construction and utilization of an “open source capillary electrophoresis instrument”.

Shedding Light: A New Open Source Imaging System

Publishing date: 2018-07-04 Published on: PLOS Research News summary: An interview with Isaac Nuñez and Tamara Matute, authors of the research article that was awarded the 2018 PLOS Open Source Toolkit Channel Prize.

PlasmoTron: Semi-automated culture of malaria parasites

Publishing date: 2018-05-15 Published on: plasmotron.org summary: PlasmoTron is an open-source robotic system built on top of the OpenTrons platform, to allow semi-automated culture of malaria parasites. authors: Theo Sanderson and Julian C.

Mozilla’s 48-Hour Hackathon for a Better Internet

Publishing date: 2018-05-07 Published on: medium.com summary: Mozilla’s fifth-annual Global Sprint is May 10 and 11. Open-source engineers and activists around the globe will swap code and ideas to make the internet a healthier place.

If sharing is caring, Addgene really cares about plasmids.

Publishing date: 2018-05-05 Published on: PLOS Synbio Community summary: An interview with Addgene co-founder and current Chief Scientific Officer, Melina Fan. authors: Aaron Dy link to paper: http://blogs.plos.org/synbio/2016/05/05/if-sharing-is-caring-addgene-really-cares-about-plasmids/ Icons made by catkuro from www.

Build Hope – 2018 Hackaday Prize

Publishing date: 2018-03-13 Published on: Hackaday.io summary: The Hackaday Prize is the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, a grand competition where thousands of hardware hackers, makers and artists compete to build a better future.

The Code and Data Citation Counter

Publishing date: 2018-03-01 Published on: github.com summary: Allow researchers and policy makers to see how the presence and quality of links to data and software in publications are changing over time so that they can identify emergent behaviour.

Choose an open source license

Publishing date: 2018-01-01 Published on: Choose a license summary: A tool from GitHub helping developers choose an open source license for their source code. authors: GitHun, Inc. link to paper: https://choosealicense.