This week saw a lot of support for open source in governments around the world. The US and the UK held open source focused events and Spain is opening its government software to the public. Here are these stories, and more:
- On opensource.com, Jason Hibbets took “A Look Inside Code for America.”
- “Open Source and the National Security Agency, Together Again” was published by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on ZDNet about this week’s Open Source Industry Software Day.
- Brian Bloom discusses “The Open-Source Answer to Big Data” on PCWorld.
- OStatic continued its coverage of developments in open source robotics with Sam Dean’s blog, “The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) Is Booting Up.”
- On techPresident, Miranda Neubauer reported on autonomous regions in Spain open sourcing their governments’ software applications: “Open-Source Software for Governments in Spain.”
- The first NHS Hack Day was reported on The H by Dj Walker-Morgan: “NHS Hack Day Brings Open Source to UK Health Service”
Check out this beautiful and fascinating visualization of historical tornado paths in the US, created using data from data.gov!
