Today the world contains a vast amount of data which continues to grow at speed. Explore moments in history which have played a part in shaping today’s data-driven society. Timo Arnall, Internet Machine, 2014 © Timo Arnall Source: http://www.elasticspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/InternetMachine10-web.jpg 1801 William Playfair, the founder of graphical methods of data, develops the first pie chart. 1837 … Read more
The OWASP AppSec conference in Europe is an established and premier venue for web applications leaders, software engineers, researchers and visionaries from all over the world. OWASP AppSec Europe gathers the application security community in a 4-days event to share and discuss novel ideas, initiatives and advancements. The 2016 edition will take place in Rome … Read more
Here I am, almost 20 years into my own crazy open source story, and it shows no sign of abating. And my problem is that I like to know how things work and to fix things. I started fixing TVs, ours and the neighbors’, when I was nine or 10. In those days every TV … Read more
Adopted by the San Francisco Elections Commission (6-0) on November 18, 2015. [Supporting Open Source Voting Systems — Encouraging the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to Initiate a Project to Develop and Certify an Open Source Voting System] Resolution to support the development and certification of an open source voting system running on commercial off-the-shelf … Read more
The Random Walk theory: The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), popularly known as the Random Walk Theory, is the proposition that current stock prices fully reflect available information about the value of the firm, and there is no way to earn excess profits, (more than the market over all), by using this information. The Private Eye of … Read more
Open source software has emerged as the driving force of technology innovation, from cloud and big data to social media and mobile. The Future of Open Source Survey, sponsored by Black Duck and North Bridge, is an annual assessment of open source industry trends that drives broad industry discussion around key issues for new and … Read more
The office suite could look a lot better with some effort LibreOffice might be a great office suite, but the community doesn’t like the fact that the UI still looks kind of dated. The good news is that anyone with some coding skills can try to fix that by working on the project. The LibreOffice … Read more
FarmOS is a Drupal-based software project aimed at easing the day-to-day management of a farm. It allows different roles to be assigned to managers, workers, and viewers. Managers can monitor how things are going with access to the whole system, workers can use the record-keeping tools, and viewers have read-only access to, for example, certify … Read more
Alan Levine, CC-BY, https://www.flickr.com Are teachers active creators of educational content for their classes, or a service hatch for publisher offerings? Due to the growth of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, it’s becoming easier to identify examples of creative teachers who not only develop their own materials, but also share those resources back to … Read more
This is the first part in a series around education and copyright. Besides thoughts on how we can -and should- arrange copyright around education in the 21st century, we will also write about practical tips and present movements that try to work around copyright restrictions and tap into the potential of educational innovation. While our … Read more
