We would like to invite you to “Why and How to Switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL” webinar. If you’re considering a migration, this is your opportunity to get a strategic roadmap that helps you reduce Oracle costs and unlock the full potential of Postgres. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Presenters:Mostafa Zakaria, Sales Engineer … Read more
Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members, interested people and the wider MyData community. Following our launch event in June (recording here if you missed it), we are pleased to announce that our brand new award programme … Read more
In recent years, several high-profile, single-vendor Open Source projects made the news by switching to more restrictive licenses. Some saw this as a manifestation of evil and greed, questioning the single-vendor model entirely; others interpreted it as a sign of the growing economic unsustainability of Open Source in the current market structure. Both arguments have … Read more
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of AI, opening up new opportunities for research and industry applications. However, LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities only in high-resource languages, in particular in English, while their performance varies substantially across different languages. Especially in the case of low-resourced languages, such as Greek, existing open-source LLMs are underperforming … Read more
Open Source technology, practices, and thinking have revolutionized how we innovate, collaborate, and do business. The impact goes beyond our daily work and paying our rent. Open source is everywhere; we won! But there’s a downside. We have been so busy with our success that we have forgotten to tell people what makes us and … Read more
GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology announces the fourteenth (14th) “Call for Proposals for Production Projects” for access to ARIS national high performance computing system (https://hpc.grnet.gr). In order to allow full and equal access to the ARIS national high performance computing system, GRNET hereby invites scientists and researchers working in Greek educational and/or research … Read more
Open Technologies Alliance – GFOSS will present the EU funded project ACROSS (Horizon 2020) during the first day of the MyData 2022 conference on June 21-22 in Helsinki. GFOSS is an associate third party in the ACROSS project, a three year research and innovation EU program aiming to create an enabling ecosystem for interoperable cross … Read more
The dedication of the developers, documentation writers, community organizers, and volunteers of the free software movement is what has helped us all live liberation in the years the free software movement has been active. Just using free software makes you part of our collective journey to freedom, but some go above and beyond in their … Read more
+RESILIENT TRANSFER WEBINARS June – October 2021 The six transfer webinars were held from June 2021 to October 2021. Digital Tools in Social Innovation: Lessons from +Resilient Project Public Authorities and Public Policy in Social Innovation Incubating and Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Participation and stakeholders’ involvement in social innovation process Social Innovation and Tourism Skills identification and development in Social Innovation ALL … Read more
Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nations mandate Side Event at General Assembly High Level Week to Explore Potential of Open Source Technologies for the United Nations By definition, open source development is collaborative, inclusive and revolutionary—and open software has become ubiquitous. Whenever we are online, we are benefiting from open software. … Read more
