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By Roy Schestowitz
Created 11/02/2016 - 3:35am
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 11th of February 2016 03:35:50 AM Filed under OSS [1]

Stealth Company Datawise Makes Contributions to Kubernetes [2]

This year is shaping up to be a big one for container technology, and the Container Summit
conference is going on this week in New York. At the event, Datawise, a stealth company
developing network and storage solutions for Linux containers, announced that its
contributions for container networking and storage have been accepted for the upcoming
release of Kubernetes. Kubernetes, of course, is the open source container management system
pioneered by Google and now supported by many leading open source vendors.
Here is more on what Datawise intends to bring to Kubernetes.

Google Releases ION OpenGL Open-Source Library [3]

Google engineers have open-sourced today a new suite of libraries and tools relating to
OpenGL called ION.
Details are limited thus far and without yet diving into the source code, ION is described as "a
portable suite of libraries and tools for building client applications, especially graphical ones.
It is small, fast, and robust, and is cross-platform across many platforms and devices,
including desktops, mobile devices, browsers, and other embedded platforms."

San Francisco prepares to open source its voting system software [4]

San Francisco, home of the tech startup, is trying to show its tech credentials by becoming the
first city to use open source software for elections.

The proposal to adopt a solution in time for the end of the current contract on January 1, 2017
reappeared at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday when Supervisor Scott Wiener called for a
hearing on how the city is progressing with the plan to use standard hardware and open-source
software to carry out future balloting.

OpenStack Keystone Q and A with the Boston University Distributed Systems Class Part 1[5]

Law Student Support For Open-Source Citation System Grows [6]

It isn?t surprising that NYU Law is jumping into the fray. As the petition mentions, NYU Law
professor Christopher Sprigman has been a leader on the Baby Blue project along with many
NYU Law students.

U.S. Cyber Effort Targets Open Source Software [7]

A growing list of cyber attacks targeting U.S. government employees has prompted the Obama
administration to launch a high-profile cyber security effort that among others things will
target Internet "utilities" such as open source software.
The Cybersecurity National Action Plan announced by the White House on Tuesday (Feb. 9)
as part of its annual budget submission to Congress gives the Internet and its components
equal status with other critical infrastructure. The initiative responds to massive data breaches
such as last year's hack of the Office of Personnel Management. The personal data of 21.5
million federal employers may have been stolen in the breach.

UNICEF Is Launching A Venture Fund For Open-Source Civic Technology [8]

From unmanned aerial vehicles to 3-D printing, new technology has a lot of potential to
"flatten" the world and spread social good. And now, by launching its first venture capital-type
fund for civic technology, the United Nations wants to accelerate the development of those
ideas.

Happy GPL Birthday VLC! [9]

The ever-popular VLC turned 15 a few days ago--that's 15 years since the project was GPLed

and released to the world. If we were pedants, we might point out that the project actually
came into existence in 1996, but that was a different lifetime.

VLC originally was a very different application. For one thing, it was a closed-source project,
and its original purpose was to stream videos from a satellite receiver to a computer science
lab.

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Links:
[1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/72
[2] http://ostatic.com/blog/stealth-company-datawise-makes-contributions-to-kubernetes
[3] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-ION-OpenGL
[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/10/san_francisco_to_open_source_voting_systems/
[5] http://adam.younglogic.com/2016/02/q-and-a-bu-1/
[6] http://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/law-student-support-for-open-source-citation-system-grows/
[7] http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/02/10/u-s-cyber-effort-targets-open-source-software/
[8] http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056420/unicef-is-launching-a-venture-fund-for-open-source-civic-technology
[9] http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-gpl-birthday-vlc