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Open-source currencies on the rise in Greece | Radical Social Entrepreneurs

Open-source currencies on the rise in Greece | Radical Social Entrepreneurs | The World of Open | Scoop.it
In the shadow of the Euro Crisis, the people of the Greek city of Volos are taking their monetary future into their own hands.
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Meet Pidora: A Custom Version of Fedora for Raspberry Pi

Meet Pidora: A Custom Version of Fedora for Raspberry Pi | The World of Open | Scoop.it
As the diminutive $25/$35 Linux-based Raspberry Pi devices continue to contribute to imaginative applications, they're also emerging as shining examples of new ways Linux can be deployed.
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A Change to Google Code Download Service

Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. Each project comes with its own member controls, Subversion/Mercurial/Git repository, issue tracker, wiki pages, and downloads service.
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A Look Inside Tumblr's Architecture

Yahoo recently purchased Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion. Tumblr pushes some surprisingly high numbers through their service, so aninside look at the architecture that Yahoo bought is well worth the read.
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LXer: Google Accelerates Open Source Chrome 27 Browser

LXer: Google Accelerates Open Source Chrome 27 Browser | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Published at LXer: Google keeps pushing Chrome performance and the new Chrome 27 release is no exception.
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Dream, A Short Documentary on the Art and Culture ... - Open Culture

Dream, A Short Documentary on the Art and Culture ... - Open Culture | The World of Open | Scoop.it
httpv://vimeo.com/62369954 Every year, right before Labor Day, 50000 people travel to Black Rock City, Nevada to take part in Burning Man — an.
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Raspberry Pis Chained Together Provide Massive Computing Muscle

Raspberry Pis Chained Together Provide Massive Computing Muscle | The World of Open | Scoop.it
As we've covered before, when it comes to the top open source stories of the last 12 months, it's clear that one of the biggest is the proliferation of tiny, inexpensive Linux-based computers at some of the smallest form factors ever seen.
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Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse ...

Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse ... | The World of Open | Scoop.it
... Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956). in Art, Film | May 20th, 2013 1 Comment ... Picasso had, of course, painted on film before, as you might recall from seeing us feature Paul Haesaerts' 1950 Visite à Picasso.
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Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start ... - Open Culture

Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start ... - Open Culture | The World of Open | Scoop.it
The Philosophy section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 90 courses. Enough to give you a.
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Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture (Big Thinkers Series)

University of Southern California media scholar Henry Jenkins describes how educators might fuel civic engagement by tapping the skills their students build ...

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Philippe Lejeune's curator insight, May 20, 1:39 PM

Life is about EXPRESSION. We are all in need of expression for our well being. ART is all about the desire for someone to express something that needs to be shared. The viewer (or listener) is the receptor, that will need/want to respond, creating a dialogue. Visual Art is not well prepared for this essential form of relationship. The viewer in my sense needs to become more the doer--the doer to become the viewer... participation from the public was denied for centuries, but is now possible with new tools for communication, like the internet. Can Visual art become more participatory is the question that we should ask today, and consider answering/working on. I do.

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7 Open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid) - ITworld.com

7 Open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid) - ITworld.com | The World of Open | Scoop.it
ITworld.com 7 Open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid) ITworld.com The reasons for contributing to open source projects are as diverse as the projects themselves: To garner new skills, add experience, network with peers, or...
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The Packt Open Source Express

The Packt Open Source Express | The World of Open | Scoop.it
The Packt Open Source Express, by Packt Open Source: updated automatically with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos. (The Packt Open Source Express is out!
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Photographer Revisits Abandoned Movie Sets for Star Wars and Other Classic Films in North Africa

Photographer Revisits Abandoned Movie Sets for Star Wars and Other Classic Films in North Africa | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Making a movie? Need to shoot some large-scale desert scenes?
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Keith Richards Waxes Philosophical, Plays Live with ... - Open Culture

Keith Richards Waxes Philosophical, Plays Live with ... - Open Culture | The World of Open | Scoop.it
httpv://youtu.be/90I9XGNyUiU Cadillac Records—a 2008 biopic about the rise and fall of Chicago's Chess Records—won acclaim for bravura performances,
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Best 2D Animation Programs (Open Source / Free)

You can find download links at http://tjfree.com/best-free-2d-animation-and-cartoon-software/ Here are some of the best free 2D animation programs available:...
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Google Updates Go Open-Source Language - Dr. Dobb's

Google Updates Go Open-Source Language - Dr. Dobb's | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Google Updates Go Open-Source Language
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Google has announced an update to its Go open-source programming language.
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Twitter uses open source to automate security - ComputerWeekly.com

Twitter uses open source to automate security - ComputerWeekly.com | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Twitter uses open source to automate security
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Twitter is increasingly using open source automation tools to ensure security processes are taken care of in all the code it produces.
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Hear Tom Waits, Bill Murray, and Other Modern Bards Read Some of Your Favorite Classic Poems

Hear Tom Waits, Bill Murray, and Other Modern Bards Read Some of Your Favorite Classic Poems | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Long before the printing press, before parchment and papyrus, poetry was a strictly oral form.
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett Presents Seven Tools ... - Open Culture

Philosopher Daniel Dennett Presents Seven Tools ... - Open Culture | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Love him or hate him, many of our readers may know enough about Daniel C. Dennett to have formed some opinion of his work. While Dennett can be a.
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Raving with Rodin: New York's Culture Parties for the Under-40 Set - Bloomberg

Raving with Rodin: New York's Culture Parties for the Under-40 Set - Bloomberg | The World of Open | Scoop.it
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Raving with Rodin: New York's Culture Parties for the Under-40 Set
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Larry Fink. Nearly every major cultural institution in New York has an organization devoted to cultivating future donors.
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Mageia 3 Released with Steamy Goodness

Mageia 3 Released with Steamy Goodness | The World of Open | Scoop.it
The third official release of, the popular Mandriva fork, Mageia is now available.
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Projects of the Week, May 20, 2013

Projects of the Week, May 20, 2013 | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Here’s the projects that we’ll be featuring this week: Clover EFI bootloader This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader http://www.tianocore.org. To compile it needs to place Clover...
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Reportage : une contre histoire de l’Internet - Tux-planet

Reportage : une contre histoire de l’Internet - Tux-planet | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Voici le dernier reportage d'Arte que j'ai visionné et que j'ai beaucoup apprécié : une contre histoire de l'Internet. Ca parle de la création
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The UK government pays me to write open source all day

The UK government pays me to write open source all day | The World of Open | Scoop.it
I'm a developer. Here's the graph of my open source contributions on GitHub for the last 12 months: While I also do some open source in my spare time, the vast majority of those green dots happen d...
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5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars | Technodope

5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars | Technodope | The World of Open | Scoop.it
Automakers have focused on the In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) System as their first target for open source software collaboration, specifically using (@Technodope 5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars: Aut...
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Jimi Hendrix's Final Interview on September 11 ... - Open Culture

Jimi Hendrix's Final Interview on September 11 ... - Open Culture | The World of Open | Scoop.it
httpv://youtu.be/7P0cJhQ1200 There's not much left to say about Jimi Hendrix's last days. The endless stream of commentary surrounding his life and death.
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