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May 12th, 2010 
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has appointed a director of access technology software for the GNU Project, and published an accessibility statement to encourage Free Software developers to embrace accessibility guidelines. Chris Hofstader , the new director, has an interesting background. According to the FSF release, Hofstader has a history working with proprietary software for people with visual impairments
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Free Software Foundation Embraces Accessibility
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Tags: accessibility, chris-hofstader, coming-march, Freedom, fsf, gnu, Interview, states-the-case, the-proprietary, UNIX, Users, Work 
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says that a large part of the success of Wikipedia is due to taking an open approach to content, as GigaOM reports . The widely used “open-source encyclopedia” has grown to the point where it now includes 3.2 million articles.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales On Being Open
Posted in Open Source News Tags: danese-cooper, doing-something, downsides, end-item, Interview, jimmy wales, open-approach, Success, wales, wikipedia No Comments » April 10th, 2010 Admin
Hojun Song thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think. He is an artist and dreamer, and he might very well achieve his goal as early as next year, sending a satellite collecting data from the cosmos and transforming it into information artists could use back on earth. He will be speaking at Lift Asia in the “Networked objects, from wifi rabbits to ubiquitous cities” session alongside Rafi Haladjian, Adrian David Cheok and Julian Bleecker
April 1st, 2010 Admin
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Could Google’s mobile Android OS and its upcoming Chrome OS–initially aimed at netbooks–both have futures running alongside other operating systems?
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Android and Chrome OS Look Poised to Accompany Other OSes
Posted in Open Source News Tags: acer, chrome, chrome os, Data, Interview, joins-google, linux, microsoft, netbooks, Operating, operating-systems, platforms, tablet-focuses, windows, windows-on-some No Comments » March 22nd, 2010 Admin
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Google Chrome is quickly becoming the preferred browser choice for the FOSS community but, like many open source projects we love, the real fun starts when we can tweak something into suiting our exact needs. There are loads of extensions available for Chrome these days — some open source, some not. Let’s take a look at a few of our favorites.
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Five Must-Have Chrome Extensions
Posted in Open Source News Tags: amazon, browse-faster, browser, chrome, chromed-bird, extensions, firefox, flickr, Interview, open-source, productivity, screenshot, source, summer No Comments »
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