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Pink Army Cooperative Uses Open Source Principles to Treat Breast Cancer

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One of the greatest things about the open source philosophy is that its principles can be applied to projects that help mankind. Content management systems, media apps, and gaming software all have their place in the FOSS ecosystem, but when projects like the Pink Army Cooperative come along, it reminds people of just how powerful the open source doctrine really is.



Guest Post: Yahoo's Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server

Today, Yahoo moved its open source cloud computing initiatives up a notch with the donation of its Traffic Server product to the Apache Software Foundation. Traffic Server is used in-house at Yahoo to manage its own traffic and it enables session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for entire cloud computing stacks. We asked the cloud computing team at Yahoo for a series of guest posts about Traffic Server, and you'll find the first one here.


Bob Sutor On Advice For Open Source Startups

IBM's Bob Sutor has a good post up discussing advice for those who want to start an open source business. There are more and more open source startups arriving, but Sutor says I?ve been very surprised as I?ve looked around the web that there don?t seem to be very many good guides about the nuts and bolts of starting an open source business. He lists seven pieces of advice for those who have an open source business in the works, and here are some of our posts that can help you follow the advice.


The Droid Takes Europe

The [Android-based] Motorola Droid is set to launch in the U.S. in just a few days, and a GSM version has already stormed the shores of Europe, reports JKOnTheRun. Some reviewers have already noted that the Droid doesn't have multitouch for pinch and zoom features in its photo app and web browser--as the iPhone has. But the GSM version of the Droid, dubbed the Milestone, has multitouch for photos and browsing. Check out JKOnTheRun's thoughts on what will be in the U.S. version here, with a video.



Zenoss Announces Release of Zenoss Core 2.5, New Free Training Event, and More

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I'm beginning to think the folks at Zenoss never sleep. How else can the popular open source network monitoring software vendor explain all the recent announcements and news they've been making the last few days? Let's start with the contest.

The new Community ZenPack Contest captures the cloud computing craze. Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest is aimed at users who want to create modules, or ZenPacks, to allow Zenoss to monitor cloud infrastructureand service providers, or deploy cloud-based technologies.



College Newspapers to Get WordPress Mojo

It looks like some college newspapers are about to head in the same direction as many well-known ones, and in somewhat the same direction as the White House. CoPress is a new company that offers managed hosting and training for college newspapers interested in tranistioning from expensive proprietary content management systems to WordPress. Many newspapers, forced to slash costs in a punishing environment, are looking to open source and free content management systems, and quite a few of them are reporting significant cost savings. Why shouldn't the trend extend to college newspapers?


Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up

In like a lion, out like a Snow Leopard? Apple changed its spots on Sun's ZFS fairly quickly. This week the company shutterd the ZFS Project on Mac OS Forge, and there's no hide or hair of ZFS to be found in Snow Leopard. It's a pretty quick turnabout from a few years ago, when Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was touting Apple's inclusion of ZFS in Leopard.


Novell's Blog Wheels Out Tired Criticisms of Open Source

In response to the news this week that the city of Los Angeles is going Googlefied with a $7.25 million, five-year deal to adopt Gmail, Google Calendar and other applications, Novell's blog has an interesting rebuttal. Of course, the reason for the city's switch to Google's corner of the cloud is to save money that it would otherwise spend on expensive software licenses, and it will save. Still, the Novell blog post is intriguing because it's a missive from an open source-focused company criticizing the Los Angeles decision with barbs frequently aimed at open source solutions. It claims that L.A. should have opted for Novell's fee-based Groupwise solution. Huh?


Will Open Source Support Providers Ride a Government Gravy Train?

We've recently written about potentially far-reaching moves by the U.S. government to switch significant parts of its internal software infrastructure to open source. First, the news came out that Whitehouse.gov is now based on the open source Drupal content management system (which OStatic runs on too), then the U.S. Department of Defense announced its plans to move to open source software components and platforms.

When the news broke about Whitehouse.gov and Drupal (and the Obama administration has indicated intent to run other government sites with Drupal), my first thought was that Acquia, which provides commercial support for Drupal, might see some valuable support contracts from the government. InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues takes the idea one step further, though, and I'm inclined to agree with him.



Grand Unified Theory of Microblogging

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's not just good for the environment, it's also good for open source. In that spirit, open source developers looking to tap into microblogging services can reduce redundancy by reusing the new D-Bus library, Microfeed. The idea is that client applications can focus on the user interface and use Microfeed to fetch and update feeds. The Microfeed library takes care of the backend cruft and developers can focus on differentiating on the front end.


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