That is, it looks for existing open source projects that have already been adopted by customers.
Both companies were attempting to combine many different open source projects into one productized offering.
But it has also spawned an important lesson in designing challenges and open innovation projects.
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Active open source projects receive more, and more varied, scrutiny than closed source projects.
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GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.
Thousands of modules that do specialized and common tasks have been created and donated to the open source projects.
He recently sold the company to IBM and, quickly thereafter, setup an incubator, called Simula Labs , for open source projects.
Alex built Taskforce (taskforceapp.com) and a number of open source projects.
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They contribute to open source projects, as well, to participate in problems larger than they can solve themselves, and to learn how other people solve problems.
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Linaro engineers, leveraging their extensive embedded knowledge, will contribute to a wide range of open source projects covering areas such as tools, kernel, graphics and boot code.
On open source projects, programmers build tools to solve specific problems, then make those tools freely available so others can use them and contribute their own improvements.
He recently sold the company to IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and, quickly thereafter, setup an incubator, called Simula Labs , for open source projects.
The communities of programmers that grow up around successful open source projects often produce tools that are more secure, flexible, and cost-effective than those produced by a team working in isolation.
Instead of sitting on the couch mindlessly watching sitcoms, individuals can engage with others in online communities, collaborate on open sourced projects, and contribute to knowledge platforms like Wikipedia and Quora.
Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.
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Still, the enthusiasm in these collaborative, open-space projects is inspiring, and should be thoughtfully harnessed.
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Titan will be open to select projects while ORNL and Cray work through the process for final system acceptance.
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The companies said they plan to provide significant resources and equipment to the lab, which will help nurture existing open-source projects.
The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
While the company does have strategic partnerships with several companies and a focus on open innovation collaboration projects, they still continue streamline mom-friendly products.
The same goes for getting video out and onto portable devices -- you're being totally shown up by open-source projects like iTiVo and pyTiVo.
When projects compete for people (open allocation) the result is better projects.
Officials do not want to scare taxpayers by acknowledging that projects are open to abuse, so problems get hidden away.
The payment isn't in exchange for the students' work per se, but sponsorship does open the door to projects like the Yoo-hoo initiative.
Slots open up around special projects or as staffers take sabbaticals.
And the markets need to recognize that long-term creative arbitrage projects involving open or closed communities, tackling large economic challenges across the globe, are one of the few ways the surplus capital problem can be solved.
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Building a reputation through smaller projects can even open the door to the big ones.
But if the Elwha dams come out, and that successfully restores salmon runs, it could open the floodgates for similar projects.
Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.
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