There are around 60 million streetlights in Europe and most of them have been lighting up the roads for at least 25 years. These lights are usually not energy efficient, which accounts for between 20% and 50% of local government energy bills. In this context, the Humble Lamppost, a subgroup of the Integrated Infrastructures & […]
I work with IT teams that are so passionate about Red Hat’s open source mission that they bring a “default to open source” mentality to every project we work on. We’ve been quite successful in finding open source solutions for many of our business needs. Naturally, we turn to our own open source solutions for […]
In honor of the 2015 Open Government Partnership Summit, we are happy to release the newest draft of the Declaration on Political Finance Openness as part of the Money, Politics and Transparency project (MPT). MPT is a joint initiative between the Sunlight Foundation, Global Integrity and the Electoral Integrity Project, created to foster a network […]
This project was a collaboration between 18F and the U.S. Digital Service. The team was lead by Mollie Ruskin (USDS) and Julia Elman (18F) and made up of designers and developers in both groups, including Maya Benari (18F), Carolyn Dew (18F), Victor Garcia (USDS), Angel Kittiyachavalit (USDS), Colin MacArthur (18F), and Marco Segreto (18F). Meet […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]