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Ballerina . A new programming language

21 February 201722 June 2017 by Panagiotis Kranidiotis

Ballerina is a general purpose, concurrent and strongly typed programming language with both textual and graphical syntaxes, optimized for integration. Ballerina is the premier programming language designed for integration. It allows you to connect apps and services to handle all types of integration scenarios, such as collecting top tweets from a specific location and … Read more

Belgian researchers initiate Open Patent Office

16 February 2017 by Pkst

Two researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) are launching the Open Patent Office, aiming to aggregate innovative ideas to defend them from being blocked by patents. Patents no longer contribute to innovation or knowledge, the two claim, and often create a loss instead of a profit. Conversely, there is a growing need for defensive … Read more

European Free Software Policy Meeting 2017

16 February 2017 by Pkst

Building on the experience from last year’s successful pre-FOSDEM meeting, the Free Software Foundation Europe and OpenForum Europe recently continued the tradition of bringing together active Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) groups a day before the FOSDEM event, in order to discuss public policy related actions at both the EU and the national levels. This year, … Read more

Clear statement from educational sector: we need a better copyright reform

10 February 2017 by Pkst

Yesterday COMMUNIA sent a joint letter to MEPs working on the copyright reform dossier. It is supported by 34 organisations and 17 individuals, all advocates of quality education. In the letter we note our concerns on the phrasing of a new education exception to copyright, as included in the proposal for a directive on copyright … Read more

Good practices on building successful interconnections of base registries

3 February 201722 June 2017 by Ellak-Editor

In order to provide quick and user-friendly public services to citizens and businesses, public administrations are trying to adopt customer-centric approaches and readjust their ways of working. One way to achieve efficiency and increase user-friendliness is through the ‘once-only principle’. Instead of asking the citizen for information that they have already provided, public administrations will … Read more

Call for Signatories: A Better Copyright Reform for Education

3 February 2017 by Pkst

COMMUNIA, together with other advocates of quality education in Europe, has developed a letter to members of the European Parliament. In the letter we express our concerns that the proposed directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market will make things worse for education. We make recommendations that would help copyright transform into copyright fit … Read more

UK’s GDS to renew focus on reusable software

3 February 2017 by Pkst

The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) will renew its focus on the creation of reusable, open source software projects, says Anna Shipman, GDS’ Open Source Lead. It is a subtle shift from making source code publicly available – the default of the past five years, to creating real open source projects – getting a community … Read more

Swiss open source directory for IT solutions and businesses

2 February 201722 June 2017 by Ellak-Editor

The ‘OSS Directory‘ aims to make it easier for public administrations and companies to find open source IT solutions as well as providers of open source IT services. “In the database those interested in open source IT solutions can see that for instance Linux or Postgresql is used by many others. That does not mean … Read more