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<p><font size="-1">Nat Torkington just pointed to a Ford Foundation
study on underfunded internet infrastructure, (3) below </font><br>
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<td>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:50:00 GMT</td>
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<p><em>Arrival Science, Open Source Hospital, Unseen Labour, and
FOSS Heartbeat</em></p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://backchannel.com/i-had-one-night-to-invent-interstellar-travel-b2466882ef5c#.kdzakerv2">The
Science of Arrival</a> (Stephen Wolfram) -- wonderful to see
a nerd
nerding out about the science in a movie. (He advised on it,
and is
chuffed that scenes have Wolfram Language on the screens)</li>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.bahmni.org/">Bahmni</a>
-- <i>an easy-to-use
EMR & hospital system. It combines and enhances existing
open source
products into a single solution.</i>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf">Roads
and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital
Infrastructure</a>
(PDF) -- <i>The pervasive belief, even among stakeholders
such as
software companies, that open source is well-funded makes it
harder
to generate support. Some infrastructure projects operate
sustainably,
either because they have a working business model or
sponsorship, or
because their required upkeep is limited. An unfamiliar
audience will
also associate open source with enterprise companies like
Red Hat or
Docker and assume the problem has been solved. However,
these
situations are the outliers, not the rule.</i>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/sarahsharp/foss-heartbeat">FOSS
Heartbeat</a> -- <i>uses contributor participation data
(currently
from GitHub) to categorize users into these seven roles</i>,
which are:
<i>Issue reporter, Issue responder, Code contributor,
Documentation
contributor, Reviewer, Maintainer, Connector.</i> Sarah
Sharp's
latest project.</li>
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<p>Continue reading <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/four-short-links-11-november-2016">Four
short links: 11 November 2016.</a></p>
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