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What’s wrong with health care systems?

It is generally quite easy to create a blog using one of those online services such as Blogspot. In fact many people create a blog and after a couple of posts they lose interest and neglect to update it. There is a blog I would like to draw your attention to, http://fakellaki.blogspot.com/. This blog was …

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Απαντ.: “Γιατί υστερούμε στην ανάπτυξη OpenSource λογισμικού;”

Ο Δημήτρης ρωτάει στο ιστολόγιό του γιατί υστερούμε στην ανάπτυξη του ελεύθερου λογισμικού. Δηλαδή γιατί δεν συνεισφέρουν περισσότερα άτομα στον προγραμματισμό σε έργα ελεύθερου λογισμικού. Πιστεύω ότι είναι αρκετοί λόγοι, ένας από τους οποίους είναι η αδυναμία που έχουμε στη δημιουργία κοινοτήτων χρηστών. Η Kathy Sierra περιγράφει τη διαδικασία δημιουργίας μιας κοινότητας ελεύθερου λογισμικού (π.χ. …

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Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux 6.10

This is a follow-up to the article Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux 6.06 on how to add extended multimedia support to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The new version of Ubuntu Linux, 7.04, has a new functionality to help add multimedia support in a seamless way; when you try to play a media file that requires …

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Blog promoting OpenOffice.org, ODF, open-standards

An interesting blog that takes you through the developments of ODF in the standardisation process is http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/. The first entry on the website is a static page; the second item is the newest entry, and so on. Recent posts talked about the OpenXML attempt for “fast-track” standardisation and how several countries dealt with this on …

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Translating OLPC software

The core OLPC software is developed at http://dev.laptop.org/ using the GIT source code management system. For the tasks of the translator, one needs to look into the different projects and locate any po/ subdirectory. The existence of this subdirectory show that the piece of software is internationalised (=can be translated). For example, the core component …

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International Call for Artists’ film and video

AT HOME IN EUROPE Generous European Culture2000 funding enables ISIS Arts (UK) and it’s international project partners BEK (Norway), InterSpace (Bulgaria) and RIXC (Latvia) to curate a NEW SCREENING PROGRAMME around the theme of European Identity for the Big M, ISIS Art’s inflatable touring space. Daily, more and more European people decide to live in …

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