9 posts tagged with open source
The IEC saga: an early warning to other national standards offenders
As a long time advocate for best practices in web design, W3C standards compliancy, and the open source movement, this quite simply blows my mind on so many different levels:
The Independent Electoral Commission will spend R3 million to fix its broken website as complaints mount.
Wow!
Allow me to first provide an overview of the events leading up to this latest … view full post
Microsoft, Red Hat, and South Africa’s OS strategy
Not even a week after Jason Matusow, Microsoft Director of Corporate Standards, wrote on his blog that South Africans don’t understand Open Source Software or how to benefit from it, Linux vendor Red Hat have announced that they’re to open an office in South Africa. Via Tectonic:
Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who
eThekwini chooses open source
eThekwini (Durban) municipality chooses open source for it’s internet and intranet services using Zope (Application Server) and Plone (CMS).
Via Tectonic:
Technical development of the portal was done by Cape Town-based
Mozilla downloads have surged
Via mozillaZine:
“Wired News is reporting that Mozilla downloads have surged following advice from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to avoid Internet Explorer for security reasons. Download numbers approximately doubled in the days following the US-CERT recommendation, which was
Mark Shuttleworth offering bounties for OS software development
Mark Shuttleworth (together with his Shuttleworth Foundation) is offering some bounties for open source software development.
You’ll have to submit a proposal and some references, if you want an advance on the bounty. My budget for these bounties in 2004 is USD 100,000. I’m open to proposals for projects that will further the
The Matrix has you
Currently one of the most active projects (#4) at SourceForge, and which I’ll bet is just itching to be blogged to death, is a neat little Windows desktop enhancement tool called ZMatrix:
…which creates the streaming character effect out of ‘The Matrix‘ on your desktop. The
South African government adopt OSS
Something that has been grabbing media attention recently is the news of our Government’s policy to promote the use of open-source software. The story goes back to September last year when ITWeb reported that the Government had released a draft-version OSS policy framework document by a high-level advisory body. The framework … view full post
translate.org.za
Before I created a database for storing the content on this site, I made a post about translate.org.za – a local open-source software translation project.
The project aims to give learners, pensioners and all citizens of South Africa access to computers in their mother tongue. Firstly with tools for email and web-browsing, then office productivity tools and lastly with a
Setting the record straight
Setting the record straight
The Internet, the earth’s digital commons, is of increasing importance in our lives. The key to its vitality is interoperability – open development, open standards and open source software are what led to the birth of the Internet in the first place, as well as to other important universal systems such as