Queensland govt readies open source analytics
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| "Open sourcing Facilitator has been a good result and the code
| from Sourceforge has kept it going," Eisner said. "Open source
| will allow much easier collaboration. Then it would continue on
| and not just disappear. The risk of not open sourcing it is that
| it just dies - so it's a way of keeping it going."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1787365250&rid=-50
Yesterday:
Fraunhofer IESE Participating in European Open Source Quality Offensive
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| As one of eight consortium partners, Fraunhofer IESE provides support for
| the European project QualOSS - Quality of Open Source Software. Its subject
| is a quality evaluation system for Open Source software... The project has
| an overall volume of almost 3 million euros and is initially scheduled
| to run until 31 March 2009.
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http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news202076
Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year
of Coverity Scan Site
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| Department of Homeland Security open source hardening project grows to
| 150 applications and regular scans of 35 million lines of source code
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070327/sftu036.html?.v=89
Related:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
Europe, Brazil and China Unite to Foster Open Source Software to Boost Growth
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| The 20 founding members, across Europe, Brazil and China, are a
| heavyweight group of ICT industry players (Atos Origin, Bull,
| Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, European Dynamics, Siemens,
| Telefonica I+D, Thales), SMEs (Centro Ricerche Matematica Pura e
| Applicata, Mandriva), governments (the Department for innovation
| and technologies of the Italian Presidency of the Council of
| ministers, the French Gendarmerie Nationale, Serpro), and
| academics (Fraunhofer FOKUS, INRIA, the Poznan Supercomputing
| and Networking Center, the State University of Sao Paulo, the
| South China University of Technology / Guangzhou Middleware
| Research Center, the University of Bozen, the University of
| Insubria and the University Rey Juan Carlos). The project is
| funded by the European Commission under its sixth framework
| program (FP6), as part of the Information Society Technologies
| (IST) initiative.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070315/ukth001.html?.v=101
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