opensource

Can we create new social cultural spaces in the overlap of market and
social relations, sustainable and not based on control and authority
but on social and cooperative models?

Drupal is a relative youngster compared to other content management systems (CMSs). However, we got the impression the framework was well written, robust, very extensible, and seemed to have a thriving development community that was generating a lot of adoption and support....

... Drupal is known for scalability, or ease of growing a Web site from a small set of users to an enterprise level. The framework also has the ability to 'throttle' areas of the site that could cause potential problems during heavy traffic situations.

Years ago in his fantastic Linux related essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond wrote “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

Today this applies way beyond software, and increasingly in the field of government and governance. We’ve talked several times about how citizen blogs, citizen journalism, and the massive networks, both formal and informal, of concerned global citizens are creating a new paradigm within which governments must operate. . . .

The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products. [Leia Mais]

A nova versão tem o nome de Gobuntu. A plataforma aceitará unicamente programas desenvolvidos com códigos abertos. "Isso significa que tudo que não seja modificável e redestribuível será vetado, incluindo firmware, archivos PDF, vídeo, som, etc. "Estamos tentando aplicar os princípios da Free Software Foundation a toda à plataforma", disse o presidente da Canonical, a empresa da África do Sul que desenvolve o Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, por meio do seu blog.