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Fwd: [mil-oss] Whitehouse < at > Github...

Wes Turner — 2012-08-24T12:48:41

Looks interesting.

- Wes

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This should be interesting...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425279

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition

Hmmn, no public members.

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Re: DreamWorks Animation releasesOpenVDB

Will Schroeder — 2012-08-07T10:19:09

Awesome François!

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:55 PM, François Bertel
<francois.bertel< at >gmail.com>wrote:

DreamWorks Animation releases OpenVDB

François Bertel — 2012-08-07T01:55:53

Siggraph 2012 is on and is the opportunity for DreamWorks Animation to
release OpenVDB under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (
http://www.openvdb.org/license/index.html )

OpenVDB comprises a hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools
for the efficient manipulation of sparse, possibly time-varying,
volumetric data discretized on a three-dimensional grid.


To my knowledge, this is the first time that DreamWorks Animation
releases an open source software toolkit.

http://www.openvdb.org/

Press release:
http://www.openvdb.org/download/DWA_News_2012_8_3_OpenVDB.pdf

--
François Bertel

New open access journal for computergraphics

François Bertel — 2012-06-13T03:17:50

Here is the announcement by Naty Hoffman of the birth of the Journal
of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT), a new open access journal.

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/new-open-access-computer-graphics-journal/

--
François Bertel

Richard Fontana (Red Hat) - InvitedTalk at RPI - Wednesday March 21

Luis Ibanez — 2012-03-13T20:29:24

Richard Fontana

Red Hat's Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel

will deliver an invited talk on campus on

Wednesday, March 21st, 4pm to 6pm.

Room: DCC 324


Abstract

Open Source as a Legal System

In this talk Richard will argue that open source can usefully be thought
of as a unique international property rights system that exists in
tension with "real" country-specific systems of intellectual property
law. The open source legal system is based not on statutes or court
decisions but on norms of code sharing practices that originate in the
customs and traditions of developer/user communities. I will discuss
ways in which this system can be improved by making it more legally
certain and predictable.



Richard Fontana Bio:

Richard is Red Hat's Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel. His
work focuses on advising developers, managers and fellow lawyers
about open source licensing, copyright and patent issues, educating
non-developers about free software culture, and promoting open
standards and intellectual property law reform.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Richard was Counsel at the Software Freedom
Law Center, where he advised free software and open source projects
and foundations. He was co-author, with Richard M. Stallman and
Eben Moglen, of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3),
the first update of the most widely used free software/open source license
in over 15 years.

Copyleft

Stephen Aylward — 2012-03-04T14:31:22

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/03/142229/gpl-copyleft-on-the-rise

Supreme Court Says Congress MayRe-Copyright Public Domain Works

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-23T00:50:52

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/

Spring 2012 - Open Source SoftwarePractices Class

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-22T15:22:08

*Starts on Monday* !

This year, for the *first time*,
we will offer during the Spring Semester
the *Open Source Software Practices* course at RPI.

   - http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/
   -
   http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Spring2012/Main_Page
   - https://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/moodle/

The Course covers topics on:

   - Copyright
   - Patents
   - Trademarks
   - Economics
      - Gif-Economies
      - Peer-production
      - Transaction Costs
   - Software Quality Practices
      - Revision Control
      - Code Review
      - Dashboards
   - Community Gardening
      - Communications
      - Coordination
      - Motivation

The class is open to visitors and informal attendees.

   - Number: CSCI-4975
   - Room: *Low Center room 3130*
   - Days: *Monday / Thursday*
   - Hours: *4:00pm-5:50pm*

Crowd-sourced version of Star Wars

Will Schroeder — 2012-01-21T11:45:08

"Watch This Delightful CrowdsourcedStar Wars Fan Film Immediately"

Star Wars Uncut <http://www.starwarsuncut.com/> is a project by filmmaker
Casey Pugh (and edited by Aaron Valdez and Michael Pugh), in which *Star
Wars: A New Hope* was divided into 15-second segments, each of which was
replicated by fans in whatever way they chose. Connect the new segments and
voila! Crowdsourced magic.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/20/watch-this-delightful-crowdsourced-star-wars-fan-film-immediately/

The Best Legal Correspondence You’ll Ever Read

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-19T23:34:58

http://www.kegworks.com/blog/2012/01/17/best-legal-correspondence-youll-ever-read-011712/

Kodak sues Samsung for PatentInfringement

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-18T23:11:42

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/18/kodak-sues-samsung-for-patent-infringement/

Class Site joins SOPA Strike

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-18T02:44:04

http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/

Wikipedia Blackout to protest SOPA andPIPA

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-18T02:17:39

http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/228

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark

San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an
unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the
English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed
legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If
passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring
about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United
States.

Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in
a public statement (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_conclusion
):

Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined
together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take
against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in
a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level
of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The
overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage
greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals
considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a "blackout" of the
English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites
opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.

“Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition
to this destructive legislation," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
"This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we
regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even
a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free
speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening
precedent of Internet censorship for the world."

We urge Wikipedia readers to make your voices heard. If you live in the
United States, find your elected representative in Washington (
https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States,
contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar
branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the
internet to remain open and free.

*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://blog.wikimedia.org

FedScoop interview with Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, Commanding General, RDECOM & APG, U.S. Army

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-13T08:03:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YC078LVPvjI

http://fedscoop.com/open-source-on-the-battlefield/

Re: Open access and ACM

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-11T14:51:17

More on this topic
in this article in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2



    Luis

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez< at >kitware.com>wrote:

Re: Open access and ACM

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-10T21:29:13

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/your-action-needed-to-protect-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-2109


At Kitware we have been preparing responses
to these two RFIs the “Open Source Way”:

We have drafted the responses in the
following two open public documents:

https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1vEcWqAz6bwIIR6qQqWZYc8iUBrOpJ9NrvC9HiiQMc2Y/edit?hl=en_US
https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1QA1eGBynqh-yN0bo3_nYzD3d26nEhvuVPMUR2ffi17o/edit?hl=en_US

Anyone is welcome to contribute further edits, or to simply
sign the documents at the end (just before the Appendix).

More details here:

http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/220
http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/222
http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/197
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/05/kitware%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-the-ostp-rfi-on-publicly-funded-data-the-%E2%80%9Copen-source-way%E2%80%9D/

We will be closing down the documents on Wednesday morning,
(January 11th) to do the final formatting and submit them on
time for the January 12th deadline.

    Luis

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM, François Bertel
<francois.bertel< at >gmail.com>wrote:

Open access and ACM

François Bertel — 2012-01-10T21:12:14

Here is Naty Hoffman's post about the Requests for Informations (RFI)
on open access and about the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
position on the subject (as a member of AAP (Association of American
Publishers) ):

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/your-action-needed-to-protect-open-access/

He also mentions the Research Works Act (RWA) which goes against open access.



And here is a pretty direct discussion between Alain Chesnais, Naty
Hoffman and Christer Ericson on twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/renderwonk/status/156828010123763713

* Alain Chesnais is president of ACM and CTO of TrendSpottr.
* Naty Hoffman is Technical Director at Activision and author of the
book Real-Time Rendering.
* Christer Ericson is Director of Technology at Sony and author of the
book Real-Time Collision Detection.

--
François Bertel

Canada considering to extend copyrightby 20 years.

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-08T16:06:51

http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=12/01/06/1749239

*"Canada celebrated New Year's Day this year by welcoming the likes of
Ernest Hemingway and Carl Jung into the public
domain<http://publicdomain.xanga.com/757968422/public-domain-day-2012/>
just
as European countries were celebrating the arrival of James Joyce and
Virginia Woolf, 20 years after both entered the Canadian public domain. The
Canadian government is now considering a
plan<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6176/125/> to
enter trade negotiations that would extend the term of copyright by 20
years, meaning nothing new would enter the public domain in Canada until at
least 2032. The government is holding a public consultation with the chance
for Canadians to speak out to save the public
domain<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/>
."**
*

File-Sharing Recognized as OfficialReligion in Sweden

Will Schroeder — 2012-01-05T11:18:39

Kopimi beliefs originated with the Swedish group called Piratbyran who
believed that everything should be shared freely online without
restrictions from copyright.

.... the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred
symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-recognized-as-official-religion-in-sweden-120104/

Canada considering to extend copyrightby 20 years.

Luis Ibanez — 2012-01-08T16:06:51

http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=12/01/06/1749239

*"Canada celebrated New Year's Day this year by welcoming the likes of
Ernest Hemingway and Carl Jung into the public
domain<http://publicdomain.xanga.com/757968422/public-domain-day-2012/>
just
as European countries were celebrating the arrival of James Joyce and
Virginia Woolf, 20 years after both entered the Canadian public domain. The
Canadian government is now considering a
plan<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6176/125/> to
enter trade negotiations that would extend the term of copyright by 20
years, meaning nothing new would enter the public domain in Canada until at
least 2032. The government is holding a public consultation with the chance
for Canadians to speak out to save the public
domain<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/>
."**
*

File-Sharing Recognized as OfficialReligion in Sweden

Will Schroeder — 2012-01-05T11:18:39

Kopimi beliefs originated with the Swedish group called Piratbyran who
believed that everything should be shared freely online without
restrictions from copyright.

.... the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred
symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-recognized-as-official-religion-in-sweden-120104/