Category: Open

  • Google’s Coder Project for Raspberry Pi

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      This is from TheVerge, I am pondering it for my Raspberry Pi, which I have to get around to ordering. Hackers and educators love the Raspberry Pi, and at least a few people at Google do too. For a year, Google has provided funding to a UK program that trains teachers on how to…

  • OpenWeatherMap – free weather data and forecast API

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    This is an interesting project The OpenWeatherMap service provides free weather data and forecast API suitable for any cartographic services like web and smartphones applications. Ideology is inspired by OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia that make information free and available for everybody. OpenWeatherMap provides wide range of weather data such as map with current weather, week forecast,…

  • Open Government on github

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    Open Government was published in 2010 by O’Reilly Media. The United States had just elected a president in 2008, who, on his first day in office, issued an executive order committing his administration to "an unprecedented level of openness in government." The contributors of Open Government had long fought for transparency and openness in government,…

  • Open source computing started with the bicycle

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    Derived from ComputerWeekly.com A new video on the origins of OpenSource explaining the suggestion tht OpenSource existed prior to the Industrial Revolution has been hosted on OSS Watch, an advisory service for issues relating to free and open source software in the Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) sectors. Open source and the bicycle…

  • Clang is Funded Let the Swordfighting Begin

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    On Open Culture I noticed that Neal Stephenson did obtain his goal of crowdsourcing $500K through Kickstarter for his first person virtual sword fighting game.  Those of you who have taken courses from me might recognized Neal as the author I recommended to read prior to the course for our book discussions Stephenson and his…