Open Source Competence Center

Dziś, przez 24 godziny, anglojęzyczne strony związane z inicjatywami promującymi wolne i otwarte inicjatywy (np. anglojęzyczna wikipedia oraz wszystkie strony Free Software Foundation (fsf.org, gnu.org, directory.fsf.org, libreplanet.org, savannah.gnu.org, etc.) są niedostępne i zaciemnione. Jest to forma protestu przeciwko projektom ustaw, które mogą znacząco zaszkodzić wolności i otwartości Internetu. Protest ma zwiększyć świadomość zagrożeń jakie niosą propozycje ustaw oraz pokazać jak wyglądałby świat bez wolnej wymiany wiedzy.

Czytaj więcej na temat protestu na stronach:

• http://osnews.pl/dzien-bez-wikipedii-i-reddita-w-protescie-przeciwko-sopa/ (w jęz. polskim)
• https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage (w jęz. angielskim)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more (w jęz. angielskim)
• http://gnu.org/ (w jęz. angielskim)
• http://sopastrike.com/ (w jęz. angielskim)

The "Infobazy" conference took place in Gdańsk and Sopot in Poland on September 5-7, 2011. The conference concerns different aspects of databases including infrastructure, tools as well as information resources.

There is a next step in the open world. In September, European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has released version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to support knowledge and technology exchange across the electronic devices designers.
The CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products.

The license is published on the Open Hardware Repository (OHR), where designers can collaborate and share knowledge.

Sometimes there is a need to quickly create a text note which requires input from many people at the same time. Very often for such a purpose use a text document, which is forwarded by email from one person to another, which is not a very effective way. For many years, there have been created many tools, which were not very usable. Just recently the popularity of social services and software as services solutions have made it possible to edit documents in distributed teams in real time. An example of such publicly available service is Goole Docs.

The QuailPSo Centre has been presented at the second edition of the conference "i3: internet - infrastruktury - innowacje" (i3: Internet - infrastructures - innovations) in Wrocław. The motto of this edition was "eScience a key to development". The three-day meeting covered issues related to Science, Internet and their influence on the everyday functioning of the society.