[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] I'm missing steven's little news posts, so I thought I'd make one up. Things happening recently: Bruce Perens on a landmark appeals decision which strengthens the legitimacy of Free Software Licenses; Venezuela orders 1 million Intel Classmate PCs; SGI relicenses OpenGL; The FSF launches a campaign to highlight the high-priority list, and KDE 4.1.2 codenamed "Codename" is released.
Also coming up: Pyworks will be held at the same time as PHPworks in Atlanta, Nov 12th-11th; FSCon, the Nordic Summit, will be on October 24th - 26th at the IT-University Gothenburg; UKUUG Developer Conference 2008 will be in Manchester, Nov 7th-9th.
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pyv8 is an experimental project to combine two-way python bindings to v8 with the python-to-javascript compiler from pyjamas. a simple test has shown a ten times performance increase of python code converted and executed as javascript, when compared to running the same program as python. (to be fair, cython gives a 100 times performance increase).
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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Community of Nepal (FOSS-Nepal) observed the fifth international Software Freedom Day today. The day was celebrated by over 500 different volunteer groups in 120 countries. The theme for this year's celebration of FOSS-Nepal was "Create, Share, Collaborate." Honourable Minister of Science and Technology, Ganesh Shah started the proceedings at Yala Maya Kendra in Patan, Kathmandu by unveiling a compilation of Free/Open Source Softwares in a CD named "Nirvikalpa." Honourable Minister also announced the launch of a web-portal named "Prasfutan." "Prasfutan" which means "blossoming" in English aims to provide a collaborative environment to a vast number of local talents in Nepal whose creativity has a reach only up to a limited audience comprising of their acquaintances. This is in sync with the theme of "Create, Share, Collaborate."
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Only want to introduce you into the ePractice community for OSS in the public administration ( http://www.epractice.eu/community/opensource/ ) which supports the OSOR.eu inititative.
OSOR.eu will be formally launch in Malaga's OSWC.
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I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here with another month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF.
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Leading free software application widget sets include GTK2, QT4 and wxWidgets. Web application development is still considered to be a bit of a black art, with knowledge of CSS, javascript and AJAX trickery making many side-step HTML completely and go for Adobe Flash or Silverlight to get that "rich media" experience that typical Web apps entirely lack. And, worse, writing apps that run - unmodifed - on both the desktop and the web is impossible if you want to stick to Free Software development principles and ethics.
AJAX "toolkits" as they are known, such as YUI, Google Web Toolkit and Pyjamas are the "middle-ground" to making Web application development look and feel that much more like you're developing a real desktop application. In the case of GWT and Pyjamas, you're even programming in Java or Python, respectively, and the tool is actually a javascript compiler! The next logical step is to ask the question, "If these toolkits look, feel and smell like Desktop applications development APIs, why are they not *actually* Desktop applications development APIs?". Pyjamas-Desktop is the answer to that question, effectively making Pyjamas a de-facto standard for cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-desktop, cross-environment and, ultimately, a cross-widget-set Free Software applications development API.
Finally, there's a way for free software developers to write applications that run - unmodified - as both a web app and a desktop app.
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I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here with another month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF.
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I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here with another month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF.
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I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here with the first of what will be a regular posting each month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF. Thanks to Steven for giving us the opportunity to post this here.
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There's an ongoing debate about whether a free/open source project needs to be "organic" to be worthwhile, where "organic" is (arguably) defined as a project which the first release included source, and is generally characterized as by a distributed development team with no single company truly in control, and "inorganic" is generally code that started off life as a proprietary effort. I'd like to argue that making "inorganic" open source work is a big challenge worth tackling.
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