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Despite the dire economic times, funding continues to flow toward open source. Appcelerator, which has an open platform for building web, desktop and mobile applications, has announced that it has received $4.1 million in Series A venture funding. Storm Venture managing partner Ryan Floyd will join Appcelerator's board of directors along with Larry Augustin, a noted angel investor. Meanwhile, open source Business Intelligence software maker Jaspersoft is being backed by late-stage growth fund Adams Street and Red Hat, among others, according to an Internetnews report.

Linux.com has a good story on open source tools for video editing, including what's missing.....

Does DimDim, the open source conferencing and collaboration solution, have unsung opportunities?.....ﾠ

Matt Asay has an interesting piece on Harvard University teaching open source. Are other universities likely to follow Harvard's example?....

A Red Hat executive has hit back at government shyness about deploying open source.....