Open Source and Green IT special program of the German government

The CIO newsletter from the Federal Government of Germany (was: KBSt-Newsletter) informs about new activities to stimulate the German economy:
Bereits am 29. Januar 2009 hatte der IT-Rat des Bundes ein vom Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik vorgelegtes Rahmenkonzept über IT-Maßnahmen zum „Pakt für Beschäftigung und Stabilität in Deutschland“ beschlossen. „”Ziel der Maßnahmen ist es, die [...]

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Crazy KDE project

24 Feb 09 KDE Bugs is not reachable:
bugs.kde.org temporarily offline
bugs.kde.org is temporarily offline to celebrate the KDE 4.2.0 release. Please come back on January 28th.

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Unanimous Consent

OASIS ODF TC: IBM’s Rob Weir explains Unanimous Consent .

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More details on the Russian National Operating System

Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev – the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. At a key meeting with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA, he announced support for a Russian Fedora association and for Red [...]

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NYT: Mini Wind Turbines

The New York Times reports about efforts to bring small wind generators on ordinary roof tops:
“The turbine will conserve energy,” he said. “It’s making us more self-sufficient, and we’re doing our part to cut consumption. You have to think not only about saving money, but about saving resources.”

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KDE top menu bar

Another blog post concerning the top menu bar feature for KDE:
For KDE support of a Mac-style menubar has always been rather a hack, both in the past (KDE 3) and currently (KDE 4), see below for some detailed explanations. Best would be to put proper support directly into Qt. Like there is a special handling [...]

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Reding: Open source window of opportunity

Some people found what EU-Commissioner Reding had to say about the European Software Strategy:
believe that these are the necessary preconditions for the European
software industry to ride the rising wave of on-line software. But, the essential
point is that this shift to on-line software will change the way the software
business is done. It will place a [...]

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National Operating System in Cuba?

Apparently also Cuba develops its own national operating system, Reuters reports.
The government views the use of Microsoft systems, developed by U.S.-based Microsoft Corp, as a potential threat because it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.
The remarkable aspect about the move is the domino effect. More an more nations develop their own [...]

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Putin rejects Dell’s sales pitch

Putin explains their educational project to get computers in schools and the quality of their programmers.

Dell: How can we as an IT sector help you broaden the economy as you move out of a crisis and take advantage of that great scientific talent that you have?
Putin: We are not invalids. We [...]

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Heise about LXDE speed

Heise: Fosdem 2009: Mit Open Source aufrecht durch die Krise gehen
Das gilt auch für einzelne Packete wie den abgespeckten X-Manager LXDE, mit dem Open Office in drei Minuten gestartet werden kann. [It also applies to smaller packages as the lightweight X-manager LXDE, with lxde you can start Openoffice within three minutes.
What did Heise get wrong [...]

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