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Category Archives: Open Source

Summer coding project ideas for Fedora

Sunday, January 27, 2008

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has been very busy the last few years since Google introduced its Summer of Code project. Folks are beginning to include the Southern Hemisphere. The Summer of Content from OLPC already plans to cover both Summers with two project rounds per year. Summer is a traditional time for […]

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Open Source vs. open source

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

There is a saying, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.” Ralph is 100% accurate — where the consistency is foolish it is not worth worrying about. (Unfortunately, I often hear this quote with the words “a foolish” dropped; at least, many people seem to […]

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Accessibility is the cornerstone of science and open enquiry

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Over the last few years, I’ve watched and worked with my wife as she has managed her chronic disease using the web as one of her tools. Recently I had a mental flash — a connection between her success with open enquiry of field-specific experts, how access to the originators of new science is […]

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