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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: All Opens Below Line Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, DIY, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost
Autonomous Internet
Hackers developing satellite system for ‘uncensorable Internet in space’
Crowd-Funding
Destination: Home and Housing 1000 Use Social Media and Crowd Funding to Help the Homeless
iAMscientist Launches to Provide a Crowdfunding Platform for Science, Technology, and Medicine
New crowd-funding venture BankToTheFuture.com set to launch
Crowd-Sourcing
Cape Town Tourism campaign uses crowd-sourcing to clock over 13 million impressions on Twitter
Civic Engagement and Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing a Crisis Map of the Beijing Floods: Volunteers vs Government
Crowdsourcing as catalyst for change
Crowdsourcing: FLOW's Most Dangerous Intersections
Forest Fire Prevention Gets Boost From Crowdsourcing
HipGeo launches new crowd-sourcing app
Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm
Image annotation combines machine vision and crowd-sourcing
Launcht Profiled in Crowdsourcing.org
Moving Academic Research Out of the Ivory Tower & Into the Crowd
Netflix opens crowd-sourcing of subtitles on a small scale
Satellite images, crowdsourcing emerge as resource in search for missing climbers
Events
FOSS / FLOSS / F/OSS / Libre
Cropping (lossless) JPEGs with CropGUI. Simplicity Itself
LibreOffice: CentOS gets a desktop remix with Stella 6.3
LibreOffice: Dia Does Diagrams Dutifully and Beautifully
Miami court grants HTC request to transfer Apple's claims to Delaware — Motorola might benefit
Richard Stallman slates Valve's Linux games plans
Take My Money, Please! The Strange Case of Free Web Services
Open Source (General)
Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms
Rackspace CEO: ‘We’re playing a different game’ than Amazon
Open Access
A Missed Opportunity By The FCC In Ruling Against Verizon
Hot STM Topics in 21 New Open Access Books
How we launched open-access physiotherapy
New Refinance Changes From Freddie Mac Will Change the Way Lenders Refinance for More Borrowers
New Sensus Demand Response Offering to be Enabled by OATI WebDistribute
Nigeria: Way to Nigeria's Broadband Future, By Johnson, Juwah, Others
Open Access Education and ‘south-south’ cooperation
Open Access Visibility Statistics for Clinical Medicine Insights: Trauma and Intensive Medicine
Read about PeerJ, a new open access publisher
Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference!
Scientific Linux 6.3 RC1 Comes With LibreOffice
UF Open Access Publishing Fund (UFOAP) continues in FY 2012-2013
University of Massachusetts Medical School Open Access Policy
Open Architecture
Ecoscape by Open Source Architecture
Open Architecture Challenge Winners
Open-Source Architecture: Can It Work?
Open Cloud
AppFog Collaborates with Rackspace to Support Open Cloud Ecosystem
Feds open cloud list to supplier bids
Open Cloud And The Open Cloud Initiative
OpenStack goes public and starts fight for Cloudy hearts and minds
Rackspace Debuts OpenStack Cloud Servers
Rackspace Finally Goes Public with OpenStack Cloud Servers
Rackspace Launches OpenStack Amazon Cloud Rival
Rackspace Open Cloud Offers Easily Scalable Computing — and Freedom From Vendor Lock-in
The Rackspace Open Cloud: Better, Faster, More Affordable
Open Communication
Building Trust Through Honesty and Open Communication
The Meanings of “Open Communication” Among Couples Coping with a Cardiac Event
(YouTube 33:00) Open Communication [heavy Jesus factor]
Open Culture
My Chris Marker tribute post for Open Culture
Open Data
Fueling Education Innovation with Open Data
Government must stop dumping unworkable raw data, say MPs
Government slammed over release of shoddy open data sets
Government’s transparency agenda on open data: ‘more work to do’
Help public understand government data, urge MPs
Is Open Data Making an Impact?
Official data must be easier to understand, say MPs
Open Data: Call For Clarity Over Government's Transparency Agenda
Open Data for a Clean, Secure Energy Future
Open data must do more for businesses, report finds
Public accounts committee slams public sector organisations over open data
Public Accounts Committee urges government to make case for free open data
Thinking about Open Data, with a little help from the Data Hub
Open Democracy
Open Design
Android app store criticized for open design
Open Ecosystem
AppFog Collaborates with Rackspace to Support Open Cloud Ecosystem
Open Education
40 Open Education Resources You Should Know About http://bit.ly/LUYEBP via @edudemic #OER
UNESCO Establish Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)
UNESCO Releases the 2012 Paris OER Declaration at the World Open Education Resources (OER) Congress
OpenFlow
OpenFlow tutorial for cloud providers
Service providers eager to buy into SDN market
Open Geospatial
Blighty's coolest mapper will flog its stuff to global buyers
HipGeo launches new crowd-sourcing app
Open Government
(DC) Digital Government – Open standards for Innovation
(NH) Attorney general rules Northampton officials violated Open Meeting Law
(NM) Here is the latest New Mexico news from The Associated Press
(NY) Cartoon: Andrew Cuomo's open government plans
(NY) Committee on Open Government says Sweden town court violated the law
(UK) Open government is here to stay, like it or not
(US) Open Impact Challenge: Spread the Word
Open Hardware
MIDIpal is an Open Box for Doing Stuff with Notes and Sequences and Things [Gallery, Interview]
PhantomLink Provides Open-Source Alarm Monitoring Solution
Open Innovation
Civic Engagement and Open Innovation
Digital Government – Open standards for Innovation
Why Open Innovation Could Be Marissa Mayer’s Downfall At Yahoo!
Open Maps
HipGeo launches new crowd-sourcing app
Open Materials
Catarina Mota on the Open Materials Movement
Open Media
Open Meetings
(California) Is Brown (Act) Out in California? Time May Tell
(Illinois) Attorney General’s office raps city’s knuckles over Smart Grid hearings
(Illinois) District 308 Board Hears Report on Open Meetings Act Violations
(Illinois) Naperville acknowledges open meetings violation but disputes other findings
(Illinois) New rules, but no action on Oswego meetings violation
(Illinois) Our view: Law requires more info on agendas
(New York) Board skirts Open Meetings Law
(Ohio) The Public's Business: Local Governments Should Know, Comply With Open-Records Law
(South Dakota) Task force formed on SD open records, meetings
Open Mobile
London Olympics ban open mobile hotspot functionality
OpenTripPlanner Mobile App for iPhone Kickstarter campaign – some of your questions answered.
Open Plans
OpenTripPlanner Mobile App for iPhone Kickstarter campaign – some of your questions answered.
Open Records
(California) Court: Agencies can't refuse to find records
(California) The AQMD turns down Bono Mack’s open records request
(Iowa) The Register's editorial: Court gets it wrong on discipline records
(Pennsylvania) Our opinion: How to contact Gov. (Redacted)
(Pennsylvania) Rep. White's open records appeal denied
(Rhode Island) Government records more open following changes this year
(South Dakota) Task force formed on SD open records, meetings
Open Religion
In Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V we trust: File-sharing made an official Swedish religion
Open Repositories
Open Science
Let's play ASHG 2012 title imputation! (+open science miscellanea)
Open Skies
Open Skies Agreement Should Facilitate Travel Between Israel and Europe
Why ‘Open Skies’ is not right for the Isle of Man
Open Society
Echoing Green: Creating an Ecosystem for Social Enterprises
The Case for Coherent Policy on Marijuana in Uruguay
Open Software
Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in August 2012
DornerWorks Wins SBIR Phase II Award to Develop Open-Source Hypervisor
Open Source Asterisk Leader Kevin Fleming Leaving Project
Open source Chaos Monkey brings order to cloud
Open source traffic simulation written in Java
PhantomLink Provides Open-Source Alarm Monitoring Solution
Zurmo Open Source CRM GA Release Goes Around the World in 80 Days
Open Space
Technological Optimism – Open Space Technology Breakout Session
Open Standards
City of Tulsa Open Source Policy
Digital Government – Open standards for Innovation
Open Standards for Parallel Processing and Data Visualization
Transparency, Truth & Trust
The ITU takes a (half-measured) step towards transparency
Trust requires more than government telling the truth
True Cost
Letters: Tallying the true cost of coal
Recent Corporate Aircraft Litigation Raises SEC Perquisite Disclosure Issues
UnConference
BarCamp Eastwick: how we went “unconference”
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