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Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching

The Mozilla Foundation and Shuttleworth Foundation have teamed up to offer a one-year fellowship to develop approaches to education people how to promote the open Web. Got all that? Time’s wasting, the deadline is on June 7th.

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Free Software Foundation Embraces Accessibility

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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Where’s the Summer of Documentation?

If you ask what’s missing from open source software, one of the top responses is often “documentation.” While there’s piles and piles of great code stuffed up on Google Code, SourceForge.net, and others, the actual documentation to accompany it is often lacking.

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Where’s the Summer of Documentation?

If you ask what’s missing from open source software, one of the top responses is often “documentation.” While there’s piles and piles of great code stuffed up on Google Code, SourceForge.net, and others, the actual documentation to accompany it is often lacking. This is why it’s doubly sad to keep seeing bounty programs aimed at generating more and more code, and more and more coders, but very little being done to address documentation.

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The Case for Cadence: Towards a Shared Release Cycle

Time-based release cycles have been extremely beneficial for free and open source software projects and the idea has caught on organically.

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The Case for Cadence: Towards a Shared Release Cycle