Posts about Open Source Software as of July 19, 2009

JohnMoD writes With the advent of forge.mil, etc. the military seems to be getting on board with free and open source software. A working group meeting is going to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, August 12-13, 2009. There’s a pretty good lineup of speakers including a Marine from the Iraq-Marine Expeditionary Forces, who was on the ground and saw the agility open source gave to him and his soldiers. A number of OSS projects are going to be meeting there: Delta 3D, OpenCPI, FalconView, OSSIM, Red Hat, etc.

Black Mana Studios managed to find a worthwhile niche where no app currently existed and deliver a solid first offering in Screenplay. As the name suggests, Screenplay allows you to edit screenplays on your iPhone/iPod. A writer on the go could simply jot down notes with the built-in notes app. If they have the new 3.0 software, they can also record voice memos. So where does this app fit in? Screenplay allows you to properly format your screenplays easily, auto-complete character names, reorder scenes easily, and email your work.

Thursday, July 09, 2009 Our correspondent Islamabad A Rs37.6 million Pakistani education project that aims for introduction of a new method of teaching software engineering to undergraduate students based on open software has been recognised and acknowledged by the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI). The ‘Integration of Open Source Software Projects in IT Education’ is an innovative software engineering project that is gradually achieving its objectives by training and allowing students to learn good programming practices and by getting feedback from professionals through open source.

Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley [Pantheon Books, New York 2008] Hear ye, you wordsmiths of the web, you purveyors of pages, you iterators of information: Welcome to Elsewhere, U.S.A., a state of mind in which you are constantly moving; You are slinging nothing but ideas and giving up your leisure time to do it; You are working from home but are

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http://twitpic.com/ax4q5 – FWD:Snap into a slim jim!!! Tony at work! # a good article on why being a vegetarian will make you live longer! – http://tinyurl.com/m2kc3m # @ LaurenECurl I will pay you to come and cut my hair! in reply to LaurenECurl # a good read about Ohio and dreams – http://tinyurl.com/mvoddz # @ vurbmoto very cool.

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I rarely ever would consider republishing someone else’s content on this blog, if it had already been published elsewhere. I feel, however, that Benjamin Mako Hill’s essay and blog post “Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom” deserves special treatment. It was the softly spoken and thought provoking nature of the piece, making subtle points about the differences between using the best software available and using free software that caught my eye and convinced me it was worth sharing with the wider community.

Podcasting is a great way to share your expertise with visitors to your site, or simply entertain them, rather like a radio show. It’s a method of recording, publishing and distributing the spoken word on a website or blog. Your visitors click the play button and listen to your words of wisdom through their speakers or headphones. See my earlier article on the benefits of podcasting . The featured video this week shows you how to record, edit, publish and distribute your podcast.