Unlike crowdsourcing, which asks crowds to contribute to a single project, open sourcing puts the project in their hands.
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Facebook has released its Open Compute Project, essentially open sourcing its hardware and data center specs, eWeek reports.
Obviously, this won't prevent other developers from using Blink, since the project is open source.
The project to open churches as winter night shelters will continue until 3 March.
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An exhibition about the West Yorkshire part of the project is open at the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield until 16:00 GMT.
The American Widow Project is open to widows of any service member as well as women who were engaged to a service member.
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.
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 activity streams standard is an open source project created by Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate at Google.
These companies are either adding support services to an existing open source project or creating software and using open source as a marketing technique.
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As with any open source project, remaining independent, and truly open, is paramount to us.
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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.
Isay says the project expects to open booths around the country starting in February.
Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.
The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software with the first release in July 2004.
And beyond just that, it is an open project for young women across the United States to take a part of.
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.
Mozilla and all other participants are committed to ensuring the project is fully open and the reference implementation of the required Web APIs is being submitted to W3C for standardization.
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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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They build on actions such as the Open Government Directive, the Digital Government Strategy, and, most recently, the Open Data Initiatives project, which is bringing the benefits of open data to a wide range of domains including health, energy, education, public safety, finance, and global development.
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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
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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"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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The AMQP messaging infrastructure is an open source project started by financial services firms.
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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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Research energy efficiency and the open sharing of that technology through the Open Compute Project.
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Therefore, the Open Compute Project will be worth at least a review by enterprise IT.
The company is built on a two-year open source project called ActiveMQ, which allows for enterprise-level secure messaging.
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