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The Raspberry Pi, wikipedia defines as, is a computer all in one card developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The launch took place publicly in recent months. The idea behind is the realization of a device Economic, designed to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science and programming in schools.

The card has been designed to accommodate operating systems Linux. The development of the device is carried out by Raspberry Pi Foundation, charitable organization registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Its purpose is “promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and bring a spirit of fun in learning the computer”.

Raspberry has been so successful as to become more popular by Lady Gaga.

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Two years ago, representatives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, NASA and the World Bank have come together to form the program Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK). The idea was simple: technology can and should be used for the good. RHoK brings together experts in the field, Software developers and designers of open source software. The 4-5 June 2011 will Random Hacks full third of global events with the collaboration of 5 U.S. cities and 13 International sites, giving to the community of local developers the opportunity to work on the problems of people.

“The community has already developed some applications RHoK focused on crisis response, as I’mOK , a mobile messaging application for disaster response, which was used on the ground in Haiti and Chile, and CHASM, a visual tool to view a map of landslide risk is currently being tested by the World Bank in areas affected by landslides in the Caribbean. Persona Finder , a tool designed the crisis response team of Google to help people find friends and relatives after a natural disaster, was also refined at events RHoK and used effectively in Haiti, Chile Japan.

We are inviting all designers, Developers, and anyone else who wants to help “hack for Humanity”, to attend one of local events the 4-5 June. There, you can meet other open source developers, work with experts in climate and disaster issues and contribute code to interesting projects that make a difference. If you are in Northern California, Come join us in the Valley RHoK evento Silicon Valley a Google headquarters.

And if you're part of an organization working in the field of crisis response or
climate change, can submit a statement of the problem online , so that developers and volunteers can work on developing technology to meet the challenge.

Visit http://www.rhok.org/ For more information and to sign up for your local event, and get set to put your hacking skills to good use.”

Source: Hacking for humanity in Silicon Valley and around the globe

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

The intervention of the master Prof.. Renzo Davoli Day at the GNUnisi 2010.

It explains in simple but precise differences between software and hardware, the concept of free software, rights and intellectual property, the dangers of a PA using proprietary software and the opportunities arising from free software.

Source: gnu.unisi.it

Brussels Airport has replaced the solutions business intelligence (BI) Oracle and IBM, with an open-source solution provided by Pentaho.

The solution will replace the reporting software for Oracle and the extraction, processing and loading of IBM, and saving approximately £ 300,000 compared to proprietary solutions.

The deployment came after 2 years of trials and tests that saw Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition against rival systems from IBM, SAP, MicroStrategy e Information Builders.

The group said it chose Pentaho than other solutions, because he was able to provide daily snapshots from their data warehouse and reporting consistent across the company at a price much lower than other solutions.

The system will provide Pentaho data integration, analysis, reporting tools and dashboards. Four departments – finance, Commercial, Operations and Information Technology – will benefit systems “agile BI”.

These services provide information management daily, weekly and monthly, the ad hoc analysis and dashboards, replacing Excel spreadsheets, and about 200 report scheduled for Oracle Hyperion.

Source: computing.co.uk