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Open Source Execs Name Most Influential People in FOSS

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The folks at open source collaboration platform MindTouch conducted a poll recently to get a sense of who open source executives think are the most influential people in the industry. More than 50 execs were polled from Europe and North America and no one was allowed to vote for anyone in their own company. The results were ranked according to the effect each nominee has on the open source industry, and some of the winners may surprise you.



OSCON 2010 Returning to Portland After Brief Jaunt to San Jose

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Silicon Florist blogger Rick Turoczy is reporting that the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2010 is returning to Portland, OR next year. Organizers moved this year's event to San Jose to San Jose, CA and by the time the conference was over, they were already telling attendees OSCON 2010 would most likely be held once again in Portland.

Organizers claimed the move to San Jose was prompted by the high cost of travel to Portland and its cramped convention facilities. The reasons for moving back to Portland for OSCON 2010 are much more elusive, but Portland's mayor confirmed it has signed a contract to play host next year.



Datamation Identifies A Number of Compelling Newer FOSS Apps

Datamation has an interesting collection out called 49 Hot New Open Source Applications. The applications are organized into categories such as Appliances, Desktop Tools, and Developer Tools. There are quite a few interesting finds on the list, which is focused primarily on applications that arrived in the last couple of years. Here are a few of the interesting tools that I spotted, and a few new ones we've found that didn't make the list.


After the Deadline, Language Checking Software Used by WordPress, Now Open Source

After the Deadline - Check Spelling, Style, and Grammar in WordPress and TinyMCE

If your blogging platform of choice is WordPress, then you've no doubt noticed recent improvements to the way it catches spelling, style, and grammatical errors. That's thanks to acquisition of After the Deadline, a language checking software package designed for WordPress and TinyMCE.

The plugin's creator, Raphael Mudge, announced today that he has released the source code for After the Deadline (AtD) under the GNU General Public License. We?re also announcing a jQuery API for After the Deadline. Now you can add an AtD check to a DIV or TEXTAREA with little effort, writes Mudge. This is the same API that powers the Intense Debate plugin I wrote about recently.



Whitehouse.gov and OStatic Now Run On the Same Open Source Platform

Slowly but surely, the Obama administration is showing the support for open source that officials have promised. Only a few days ago, there was a new appeal to the administration to show more support, made in a widely followed manifesto post from Andy Updegrove. Now, it's good news to see that Whitehouse.gov has relaunched? as a site based on the open source Drupal content management system (which OStatic is also based on).


Training and Support: Still Key to Enterprise Open Source Adoption

Sometimes, no matter how polished and perfect something you're working on is, the enabler for whether it will really make a difference to others lies elsewhere. There continues to be strong evidence that no matter how many types of cost savings and efficiencies open source can offer them, enterprises just won't bite if they fear training and support hurdles. Good commercial open source companies understand this acutely, and build their messaging around it. Those who don't face an uphill battle.


Five Power Tools for Pidgin

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Pidgin is a great GTK2-based instant messenger application that supports a bevy of protocols, including ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, and AIM. It's a terrific app in its own right, but when you add some of these power tools, Pidgin is even better.

pidgin-hotkeys - Use this plugin to assign global hotkeys to quickly perform regular tasks like fetching messages, toggling the buddy list, or opening the preferences pane. Also available in German and Swedish.



Is Endless Forking and Fragmentation What Android Needs?

HTC, maker of the earliest Android handsets as well some of the best-liked current ones, has finally released the source code for its Android phones. It's available here.? There had previously been a number of heated conversations in the developer community about why HTC took so long to post the code. The GPL specifically states that source code must be made immediately available, but HTC stalled. In my eyes, this is just another example of possible negative ramifications for Android if it becomes overly forked and fragmented.


Mozilla's Raindrop Project Sifts and Sorts Messaging Views

Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new project, Raindrop, that it characterizes as an open experiment in messaging on the web. From the messaging team behind Mozilla's Thunderbird email project, Raindrop uses a mini web server to sift conversations from various sources such as mail, Twitter and RSS feeds, then attempts to pull out the important parts and have them rise to the top. It works with Firefox, Safari or Chrome, and though it's still in its infancy, the open source project looks promising and bears some very rough resemblance to what Google is trying to do with Google Wave.


Browse Anonymously on Your Android Phone With Tor

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Many people use the open source application Tor on the desktop for anonymous browsing sessions. Thanks to a grant from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge and the team behind The Guardian Project, now Android mobile phone owners can use Tor to browse privately on their handheld devices, too.

We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application bundle that installs, runs and provides the glue needed to make it useful to end users?. secure, anonymous access to the web via Tor on Android is now a reality, writes Guardian Project team member Nathan Freitas.



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