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Why aren’t there more women in open source (and what are you gonna do about it?)

Janet Fouts

I’m a big fan of open source and as a woman who mangles a line of code here and there, I’m constantly amazed when I see how few women there are working in the field. It’s important that women both support open source and re-think the reasons we don’t get more deeply involved in all forms of open source.

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The Future Of Books And Publishing

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I wish more people would read (more) books. In a world of Blog, Podcasts, Twitter , magazines and more, I still get the most value out of reading and thinking about a good book over anything else. Just recently, he launched a new book (which he co-edited with Brian O'Leary ) for O'Reilly called, Book: A Futurist's Manifesto.

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7 Linux Alternatives to Common Windows Business Applications

BeingOptimist

LibreOffice is completely free and open source and is actually a successor to the popular OpenOffice, which got its last update in 2014. It’s another free and open-source application and is supported by a huge range of free plugins and addons to enhance it in any way you need – a feature that Outlook is yet to take full advantage of.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

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The Bamboo Project Blog. Well if you regard laptops as simply a combo TV and book, then yeah, I guess its been a waste. Example: OASIS-DITA for Learning --open source XML standard that allows you to create technical documentation so that it can be re-purposed and re-used. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them.

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Personal KM; KM Business Case; KM, culture and compromise; KM Books Wiki

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Personal KM; KM Business Case; KM, culture and compromise; KM Books Wiki. KM Question, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week. [ Project vs. infrastructure. KM Book of the Week. KM Books Wiki created by Matt Moore. This is a wiki page for annotating and discussing your favorite books related to Knowledge Management.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. Project , today announced that Joomla!, the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. reached 15 million downloads,&# said Elin Waring, President of Open Source Maters, part of the Joomla!

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From Atoms To Bits To Atoms

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According to Chris Anderson (editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and bestselling business book author of The Long Tail and Free ), these nascent days of basement developers (also known as Makers ) is fueling the next industrial revolution of our times, and it's going to create a profound shift in our global economy. business book.

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