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Why Big Data—or any good data—is needed, and why efforts to curtail its acquisition and thus usefulness for obvious reasons (money) are not so much simply idiotic as thievish. Lacking good data, one is left to guesswork—and that’s costly. And it’s the regular taxpayer who pays the cost of blindness. Data saves.

“Without the next generation of climate modeling capability,” he wrote, “we will lack the tools to provide detailed information about threats like drought. Australia will spend billions of dollars on things like dams or desalination plants, but rather than relying on strategic information, these billion-dollar decisions will be based on guesswork.”

Source: Australia guts government climate research | Ars Technica

Used to be called Cirrus Computing and is a fairly magnificent effort to give choice to all. I have not tried the apps or package; just read much of the descriptions. Which are long and detailed. Be interested in learning how others use it, test it.

Source: HelpWiki

Venky alerted me to this site. We were discussing options for students in India that worked and he pointed me to this project, which is popular and obviously well designed. I’m still investigating it but would be interested in learning what others have discovered.

A spoken tutorial is a an audio-video tutorial that explains an activity performed on the computer. An expert explains the working of a software, by demonstrating it on the screen, along with a running commentary.

Source: Home | spoken-tutorial.org

To my surprise, I had missed this fine series by Dave Neary, among others. I suppose I’d add more of an historical context to the evolving role of an open source community manager—and a somewhat pessimistic desire that the name be changed to distinguish what we do and what, say, a social media community manager does. Huge differences and lots of confusion. And that’s not even taking into account the “community manager” who is in charge of organising events for seniors living in gated communities. Sigh.

 

In August 2015, George Zhao of Huawei, formerly the OpenDaylight release manager, was assigned to be OpenDaylight community manager full time, a role that I had been filling on a part-time basis since October 2014. To help him ramp up as a first-time community manager, I agreed to mentor George. In the course of working together, I have had the opportunity to structure some of the things I have learned in my career, and pass them on to him.This series of articles, resulting from my conversations with George, is a collection of personal thoughts and analysis on community management, which I hope will be useful to others.(Check out Part 1 in this series.)

Source: Tales of a First-Time Community Manager — Red Hat Open Source Community