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Afraid someone will steal your idea? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
I'm a board game designer. It's a fun, creative, scary job and worlds away from my former career in corporate advertising. In both fields, there is a high value placed on ideas, especially "new" ideas...
Internet is future of higher education says University of the People 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Shai Reshef dreams of making quality education affordable and accessible to everyone, and he sees the Internet as the road to get there. Reshef is the founder of University of the People (UoPeople), w...
Why open source is the future of clinical trials 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Clinovo is a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials. Their CTO Marc Desgrousilliers is managing the development of ClinCaptu...
No major coding experience required: Gaming and more with Ren'Py 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Ren'Py, created by Tom Rothamel (@renpytom on Twitter), is an a open source tool for developing visual novels. Visual novels are the computer game equivalent of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" novel. Wr...
Weekly wrap-up: Groklaw says goodnight, Unix pioneers share memories, and more 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Open source news this week: August 19 - 23, 2013 What other open source-related news stories did you read about this week? Share them with us in the comments section. Follow us on Twitter where we sh...
New glossary helps break down common open source related terms 23 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
A couple of months ago, I wrote the first draft of "A Free, Libre and Open Glossary." I am often frustrated by people using terms like "open source" and "free software" loosely, even though they have ...
Open source culture thrives in Chattanooga 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Last week I had a chance to visit Chattanooga for several days and received an up close look at the maker and entrepreneurial culture of the city. Chattanooga is home to a municipal gigabit fiber inst...
Student programming with Scratch and The Finch 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The growing shortage of qualified programmers, computer scientists and software engineers is gathering significant attention in the media and popular press. Recent efforts from the non-profit organiza...
Open civic dialogue with text messaging 21 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
This is the second post in a short series in effort to recognize and celebrate the close of the 2013 Code for America Incubator. This new program was created to support Code for America Fellows as the...
A viable way of building decentralized web apps 21 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Despite all the programming languages, the thousands of libraries, and the millions (or so it seems) of JavaScript libraries in the web ecosystem, there is still one path to building modern web applic...
