Four short links: 11 November 2016
Arrival Science, Open Source Hospital, Unseen Labour, and FOSS Heartbeat
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The
Science of Arrival (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) -
Bahmni — an easy-to-use
EMR & hospital system. It combines and enhances existing open source
products into a single solution. -
Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
(PDF) — 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. -
FOSS
Heartbeat — uses contributor participation data (currently
from GitHub) to categorize users into these seven roles, which are:
Issue reporter, Issue responder, Code contributor, Documentation
contributor, Reviewer, Maintainer, Connector. Sarah Sharp’s
latest project.
