Today is Document Freedom Day
Today, 30th March, is Document Freedom Day, an annual celebration of the benefits of using open standards and open formats for the production and exchange of documents. Open standards are essential for...
View Article0 A.D. Alpha 20 Timosthenes released
0 AD, the free and open source RTS game, has now reached its alpha 20 release, according to the latest announcement by the developers. This Alpha features 10 new maps, core functionality for a...
View ArticleFirst European Ubuntu community conference to be held in 2016
UbuCon Europe 2016 will be the first conference dedicated to the European Ubuntu community and will be held in Essen, Germany from 18th to 20th November 2016. The organisers are promising two days full...
View ArticleOpen source microcontroller for IoT
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the University of Bologna have developed an open source microprocessor enabling the development of devices for the Internet of Things (IoT).
View ArticleFirst LibreOffice 5.2 bug hunting session announced
A blog post earlier this week from The Document Foundation, the organisation behind LibreOffice, the popular free and open source office productivity suite, gives details of the first bug hunting...
View ArticleTwo free CiviCRM events in London
News arrives from CiviCRM, the free and open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, of 2 free events later this month in London. First of all NfP Services is hosting a free seminar at...
View ArticleComing soon – South-West CiviCRM meet-up
At the end of April a CiviCRM meet-up for the South-West of England is taking place in Bristol, kindly hosted by One25. The meet-up’s date and time are 27th April 2016 from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. The...
View ArticleCERN’s 300 TB – the biggest open data release yet?
Yesterday a press release from CERN announced that its CMS Collaboration unit had released more than 300 terabytes (TB) of high-quality open data. This includes over 100 TB, or 2.5 inverse femtobarns...
View ArticleFree public wifi in the West Midlands
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is examining the possibilities of installing free public wifi in the city centre (Hanley), whilst Ludlow Town Council has ruled out free public provision due to lack of funds.
View ArticleOpen source helps Bristol dons win award
Open source software was an essential element in the work of 2 Bristol modern languages tutors who have just won an award. The University of Bristol has announced that Marcella Oliviero and Andrea Zhok...
View ArticleRural areas to miss out on so-called “superfast” broadband
It has emerged that so-called “superfast” broadband (defined in this instance as 25 megabits per second (Mbps) Ed.) will not be provided automatically to tens of thousands of remote rural homes, the...
View ArticleNew primitive quantum computer design finds application
Scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have developed a technique for efficiently simulating a “quantum walk” on a new design for a primitive quantum computer.
View ArticleBitkeeper becomes open source
Bitkeeper, the version control system originally used in the development of Linux is now available under the Apache licence. In the meantime open source alternatives such as Git and Mercurial have...
View Article“Fast” broadband to become “a right” in UK
Today the United Kingdom witnessed the annual, anachronistic, Ruritanian pantomime otherwise known as the State Opening of Parliament, an event performed by the unelected in fancy dress which marks the...
View ArticleOpen Source licence API developed
Over the last 19 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been the steward of the Open Source Definition (or OSD), establishing a common language when discussing what an Open Source licence means. In...
View ArticleCollabora Online 1.0 “Engine” for hosters and clouds released
Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting the free and open source LibreOffice productivity suite in the cloud, has announced the release the first production grade version of Collabora...
View ArticleOwnCloud founder forks off to establish Nextcloud
OwnCloud founder Frank Karlitschek, who was CTO at OwnCloud Inc. until four weeks ago, has established a fork of OwnCloud with Nextcloud – and is offering commercial support via a new company.
View ArticleIntroducing The Document Liberation Project
Today many people have digital content they created years ago and stored in obsolete and proprietary document formats. Very often these old file formats cannot be opened by any application on the...
View ArticleLatest version of Snoopers’ Charter before Parliament this week
This week the House of Commons is due to debate the Investigatory Powers Bill, the latest version of the Snoopers’ Charter (news passim), that will allow the United Kingdom’s police and services to...
View ArticleGNU Taler version 0.0.0 released
GNU Taler should provide a new payment system that provides users with anonymity and docks to the existing financial system without making Bitcoin and other crypto currencies superfluous.
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