It was another week of open source announcements, with the Huffington Post open sourcing it’s polling API, Google releasing its framework for tracking objects and an electric vehicle charger project announced its open source goals. Check out the week’s open source news:
- Just in time for the voting season, the Huffington Post announced the release of its HuffPost Pollster API and Mark Bohannon covered it in the opensource.com blog, “HuffPost Releases Pollster, an Open Source API for Managing Election Polling, Fostering Transparency.”
- “Dell’s Sputnik – Git What You Want” was Mike Hendrickson’s O’Reilly Radar review of Dell’s new Ubuntu based, developer laptop.
- On Datamation, Bruce Byfield provided a list of capabilities Linux users are accustomed to and have grown to expect from their operating systems: “Seven Expectations of Linux Users.”
- April Burbank published, “Why Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation,” on Forbes, describing how the open source movement has innovated across multiple, diverse industries.
- Google’s open source software tracking framework, Interactive Spaces, was covered by Fabian Scherschel in The H article, “Google Making Spaces Interactive.”
- Adrian Bridgwater blogged on ComputerWeekly about Charge Your Car Limited, a UK-based electric vehicle charger project with open source goals to standardize its industry: “UK Electric Vehicle Charger Network Must be Open Source.”
There has been a lot of buzz around Don Tapscott’s Four Principles for the Open World TedTalk presentation, but have you seen Massimo Banzi’s TedTalk on open source hardware and the vast variety of projects inspired by the Arduino project? Take a look and let us know what you think!
