OpenPool's an open-source project that's looking to bring a little multimedia action to the world of billiards.
What is it like to lead an open-source project?
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An open-source project (whose code can be altered by anybody), Firefox comes from a foundation, across the street from Google's offices, that happens to be based on the remnants of the old Netscape.
When he started researching online, he found out about RepRap, an open-source project for 3D printing, which provided the foundation to at least start creating a 3D printer, not only because of the open-source instructions but also because of a community of enthusiastic tinkerers like himself.
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Intel also believes in the power of collaboration to power the green movement: The company announced its own open-source environmental project at the Intel Developer Forum last week.
The company is built on a two-year open source project called ActiveMQ, which allows for enterprise-level secure messaging.
Built on top of the Adobe-sponsored open source project Brackets, Edge Code will seriously make me consider putting aside Coda.
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Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
In a sense, many roads lead back to RepRap, the open-source, community-fueled project aimed at creating a self-replicating machine.
At the same time Samsung has always harbored ambitions to own its own OS, initially with Bada but now in partnership with Intel on the Linux-based, open source Tizen project.
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The main objectives of the two-day consultation meeting that was held from 15 to 16 May 2006 were to present and discuss a proposal prepared by BIREME for the development of a new open source network-based ISIS project, and to initiate the formulation of a partnership strategy.
To help with the graphics part, Code for America teamed up with the Noun Project, an open-source icon repository, and solicited the help of activists and designers in major cities across the country.
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"All of the output from this project will be released open-source, the DNA constructs, the plants etc, " it said on its website.
Nokia said Meego would become an open source project that focuses more on next-generation devices and that it would ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.
That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
An ARM add-on is in development but, since the entire project is open source, anyone with the appropriate skill level is free to take a stab at creating their own add-ons.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
Sun's OpenOffice.org project should be ready by October and will not only give users access to open-source code but will also provide filters to allow Sun customers to use Microsoft's rival products.
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