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This year, I was finally able to participate in-person at Akademy. Apart from meeting some familiar faces from the Plasma Spring in May this year, I also met lots of new people. W...

This year, I was finally able to participate in-person at Akademy. Apart from meeting some familiar faces from the Plasma Spring in May this year, I also met lots of new people. W...

Public hosting systems for free software have come and gone over the years but one of them, Sourceware, has been supporting the development of most of the GNU toolchain for nearly 25 years. Recently, an application was made to bring Sourceware under the umbrella of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), at least for fundraising purposes. It turns out that there is a separate initiative, developed in secret until now, with a different vision for the future of Sourceware. The 2022 GNU Tools Ca...

DISA plans to save at least $12M annually with its new Defense Collaboration Services.

Tobias Gerlinger, CEO, ownCloud, discusses the importance of data sovereignty, protecting data & future of open source ecosystems in Europe.

Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand says that in 2020 in response to South Africa’s strict lockdown measures, it managed to move its entire learning management system (LMS), Sakai, to the cloud in just two months leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). This allowed the University to quickly continue classes online. Even in the midst of the pandemic, […]

Last year, Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Office of the Registrar updated their preferred name form after...

On April 20, Kwantlen Polytechnic University geography instructor David Sadoway held a Big Blue Button...

Makerere University and Stanbic Bank unveiled a financing scheme aimed at supporting blended learning by enabling staff and students to acquire laptops.

A longtime campaign of military cyberattacks between Iran and its adversaries, including the U.S. and Israel, is shifting to include civilian targets.