At FOSSLC Summercamp, John Duff presented an overview of Git and GitHub. You can watch his presentation here. Git is an open source, distributed version control system similar to CVS and SVN. The major […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has allocated $5.55 billion to the General Services Administration (GSA) for federal public building projects. Of this $4.5 billion is targetted on converting federal buldings into model green […]
Recovery.gov is reporting on a weekly basis the stimulus funds that are available and the amount actually paid out. Detailed reports from all federal agencies will be available Sunday.
According to the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), the Obama Administration’s stimulus bill is enabling construction companies in the US to hire new workers.
A European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket has launched the European space telescopes Planck and Herschel from French Guiana. Planck’s objective is to analyse with the highest accuracy yet the cosmic microwave background created […]
A motion is to be submitted to city council that would endorse the principles of open data and open standards and place open source on an equal footing with proprietary software with respect to procurement. Mayor Robertson has […]
The Polish Chaper of the OSGEO just had its first meeting and workshop. The list of international chapters of the OSGEO continues to grow. British Columbia, Canada OSGeo Chapter China OSGeo Chapter FOSSGIS e.V.: German […]
The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit organization and every summer it hosts the FOSSLC Summercamp in Ottawa. The conference will be on May 13, 14, and 15 at Algonquin College, Ottawa, […]