The company is built on a two-year open source project called ActiveMQ, which allows for enterprise-level secure messaging.
The big prize here is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project, an open-pit mining operation targeting 3.4 billion barrels of bitumen.
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.
OpenPool's an open-source project that's looking to bring a little multimedia action to the world of billiards.
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.
The state-owned Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation is set to open its much-delayed showpiece project: the 4.7 km (2.9 mile) Bandra-Worli Sealink, India's longest ocean bridge.
Residents are being invited to comment on a project to open up a mile-long section of canal on the Surrey and Sussex border for boat trips.
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.
Developments like those of Backblaze and the Open Compute Project are re-defining the possibilities of enterprise infrastructure and will likely find homes in more and more data centers.
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 Open Compute project in partnership with other tech companies will make much of what Facebook custom-built for itself open.
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Wozniak wanted to open the whole project up to all-comers.
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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.
The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee Project proposal round of funding for 2011-12 is now open.
In a sense, many roads lead back to RepRap, the open-source, community-fueled project aimed at creating a self-replicating machine.
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.
The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.
Numerous policy decisions are influenced by whether or not a place is commonly regarded as scenic, because of this Mr Steinberg said the new data generated by the project would be made "open so that anyone can re-use it and play with it later on".
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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That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
The buildings are part of a modernisation project in and around Ystradgynlais, and a Welsh-medium school is planned to open in January.
Open Educational Resources typically go beyond the textbook to incorporate interactive project-based learning methodologies that allow individualized, interactive engagement with subject matter content and personalized assessment of progress.
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Yep, that sounds about right -- and Adobe goes on to point out that the Open Screen Project is bringing Flash to all sorts of other devices.
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Partners in the Open Compute project include AMD, Dell, HP, Intel, Power-One, Rackspace, Skype and Zynga.
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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.
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