Tag Archives: open source

Hackers for government (and a dollop of open source)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Dave

A lovely story of sharing, reusing and creative hacking in government today. There’s a whole post to be written on hacker culture and why government needs people who are able to program computers on the payroll. You just can’t outsource … Continue reading →

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Update on the Knowledge Hub

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Dave

I spent an enjoyable afternoon at the advisory group for the Knowledge Hub (KHub) last Tuesday (sorry for the delay in writing this up…). Steve Dale chaired the day which featured a number of updates about the project, in terms … Continue reading →

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The State of Open Source

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Dave

Stephen O’Grady has a great post analysing where the open source software movement is in the Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline model. Why would commercial organizations willingly cede the fruits of their labor to a market that might include their … Continue reading →

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Look and feel

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Dave

If you visit this site in a browser, rather than just getting the content via your RSS reader, you’ll notice it looks a bit different. I have reverted the site to the new default theme for WordPress whilst I figure … Continue reading →

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Adventures in open source land

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Dave

I had a load of fun yesterday being a total geek and installing Ubuntu on a netbook I’ve have for a little while and which doesn’t get used an awful lot. It’s a Samsung NC10, which, as I mentioned in … Continue reading →

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