OPEN SOURCE
GOOGLE: Invites Open Source Devs to Give E2EMail Encryption a Go. Google last week released its E2EMail encryption code to open source as a way of pushing development of the technology. “Google has been criticized over the amount of time and seeming lack of progress it has made in E2EMail encryption, so open sourcing the code could help the project proceed more quickly,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Find out more
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FILE SHARING: 4 Open Source Tools for Sharing Files. Here are four open source tools that can meet all of your file sharing needs. Find out more
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DOD: New DOD Software Coding Will Increase Private-Sector Involvement. The Department of Defense (DOD) has unveiled a software coding initiative that could transform the creation and quality of DOD software projects, and the interactions between federal, private sector, and individual software developers. The initiative, known as Code.mil, is headed by the Defense Digital Service (DDS), a team representing DOD’s effort to increase public-private collaboration in the software industry. Code.mil represents the next step in this endeavor with its objective of connecting the vast amount of individual coding talent and skill with DOD software projects open to improvements. Find out more
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DEVELOPMENT: Using Proprietary Services to Develop Open Source Software. A lot of open source software is developed on (and with the help of) proprietary services running closed-source code. Countless open source projects are developed on GitHub, or with the help of JIRA for bug tracking, Slack for communications, Google Docs for document authoring and sharing, Trello for status boards. That sounds a bit paradoxical and hypocritical—a bit too much “do what I say, not what I do.” Why is that? Find out more
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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems February 2017 https://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-february-2017.
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