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Ian Ward

Feb 5, 2010

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Open Atrium for Disaster Response

Helping field offices collect data and produce reports

We just deployed a custom micro-distribution of Open Atrium for the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) Emergency Operations Center network, the World Health Organization's main arm in the region. This Spanish-only package ships with custom...
Tom MacWright

Jan 22, 2010

SlingshotSMS 0.2 Released: Now Providing RSS 2.0 and Modem Autodetection

Today SlingshotSMS has a new release for Mac and Windows and a lot of new documentation. Most importantly, it now produces RSS 2.0, works with a larger variety of modems, and can auto-connect to new devices. Using SlingshotSMS is a lot smoother now...
Jeff Miccolis

Jan 12, 2010

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The Future of Open Atrium: Beta 4 Release and Beyond

New processes, the Beta 4 release, and what’s coming in the stable release

In a few weeks we will release the next beta of Open Atrium. This will be our fourth beta, and it will have a bit more meat than some of the other releases, which I'll go into later in this post. So far Open Atrium has been downloaded more than 80,...
Eric Gundersen

Dec 17, 2009

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Opening Afghanistan's Election Data: An Open Source Data Browser

Managing News as a rich data browser for monitoring and evaluation

This morning the National Democratic Institute opened up their Afghanistan election data browser to the public. This is a massive liberalization of election data that previously had been baked into PDFs. The tool allows users to browse the raw vote...
Ian Cairns

Nov 4, 2009

GOSCON: Talks on Open Atrium and MapBox

Conference tomorrow will feature open source solutions for government

Eric and Tom are both presenting tomorrow (Thursday the 5th) at GOSCON, the Government Open Source Conference, which will be happening downtown in Washington, DC. They should bring an interesting international development angle to the conversation...
Adrian Rossouw

Oct 28, 2009

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A Smallcore Manifesto: Help Us Build a Better Teddy Bear

The largest underground "movement" in the Drupal community is the desire for a shift in goals, which has been labeled Smallcore. This movement has been rapidly growing among Drupal developers, who instinctively understand the need for and advantages...
Ian Ward

Sep 21, 2009

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Peru's Software Freedom Day: Impressions and Photos

There was a great turn out a Software Freedom Day this weekend with 400 people in attendance and a solid 30 presentations. The presentations in the Drupal track were some of the best attended sessions of the day. To get a sense of Drupal's traction...
Bonnie Bogle

Jul 11, 2009

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Resilience Meeting Discussing Pandemic Preparedness, H1N1, and Open Communications

Yesterday’s meeting at the White House on H1N1 preparedness focused heavily on openness and information sharing. Officials and experts talked about how policy impacts the ability to share information and how it can be modified to better...
Bonnie Bogle

Jul 10, 2009

Decentralized, Open Source Tools to Prepare for Pandemics like Swine Flu

Yesterday President Obama spoke about preparing for another potential outbreak of the H1N1 flu this fall H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit, a follow up to the workshop Eric attended two weeks ago at NIH about information sharing around swine flu....
Eric Gundersen

Jun 17, 2009

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Announcing Open Atrium: An Open Source Intranet Package Powered by Drupal

Open Atrium (formally code named 8trees) is an open source intranet package powered by Drupal that’s fast and easy to install and start using, and open source so you can customize it to meet your exact needs. It’s first public release will be in mid...

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