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Open Source Methods Make the World Go Round

Slashdot | Open Source Methods Useful Way Beyond Software
“Former head of policy at the British Prime Minister’s office, Geoff Mulgan, has co-authored a paper on uses of Open Source methods in arenas far beyond the normal Sourceforge universe. The paper is jointly written with Tom Steinberg, head of UK civic hacking fraternity mySociety and explores the use of open source methods to improve academic peer review, drafting of legislation and even media regulation.“

Interestingly enough, this is a position that CALI holds and it is reflected in this year’s conference theme.

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Open Law Review ‘Bad’ List Removed

Open Access Law: Open Law Reviews
“The left column has changed. Details on why soon…“

Over at Open Access Law, Dan Hunter has removed the listing of ‘Good and Bad Law Reviews‘

Open Access Law with LR listing Open Access Law listing gone

I would wonder if it is just a layout issue as alluded to earlier,or if he is getting heat from some of the ‘Bad Law Reviews’? FWIW, I agree with Dan that Law reviews should be more open with access to their articles. I guess we’ll just wait and see.

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Opera 8 Launched

Opera 8 released
“Often overlooked in the browser wars, the Norwegian browser Opera has served as an alternative for those dissatisfied with more popular alternatives from Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation, or Apple. Opera Software today launched Opera 8 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and a public beta of Opera 8 for Mac OS X.“

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Where Have Portals Gone?

Portals Fostering Open-Source Success
“If you go to the open-source development site sourceforge.net and search on the term “portal,” you’ll get hundreds of hits. In fact, you could reasonably argue that, when it comes to open-source enterprise applications, portals have been the biggest success story.

In addition to being highly effective and capable on their own, open-source portals have served to demonstrate the effectiveness of other open-source technologies, especially the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language. This is clearly illustrated in probably the most popular open-source portal application, PHP-Nuke (www.phpnuke.org), which is easily customized and includes pretty much any feature you would want from a portal, including content and document management, forums, chat, and blogging. PHP-Nuke has spawned additional open-source portals, including PostNuke (www.postnuke.com).“

Looks like Open Source is the place to g oif you’re looking for portal software. Once a buzz word, portals have quietly become the norm for site development in many areas. I suspect aht blogs and such will follow a similar path.

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New Releases for Debian and SUSE

Slashdot | New Releases for Debian and SUSE
“With the recent SUSE LINUX 9.3 Live DVD ISO released, we get a sneak peek. (screenshots) of this much anticipated OS update. Cool updates in 9.3 includes Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Gimp 2.2, Beagle. Xen, VoIP client, and more.” And while Debian’s Sarge isn’t here yet (give Branden Robinson a chance to find his plush new office!), wrochal points out that the fifth update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (“Woody” ) has arrived. 3.0 (r5) “mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems.”

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Bash Blogger

Bash Blogger
“Bash Blogger is a small, bash-powered, weblog engine. It generates valid, semantic, XHTML 1.1 webpages styled with a single CSS for layout and appearance without relying on popular, server-side scripting languages (i.e. Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, SSI, etc.).“

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