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Open source activity map / La mappa dell’attività open source

Red Hat published a new study together with Georgia Tech mapping open source activity across 75 countries. Officially called the Open Source Index (OSI), the final score is made of a number of factors including policies, practices in the Government, Industry, and Community. Topping the list current is France with a score of 1.35. Spain is second at 1.07, Germany third at 1.05, United States  ninth at 0,89, Italy  eleventh at 0.70. Some countries are not in the list because data are not available. On the website it’s clear that the map is a work in progress: The practical significance is something that must still be evaluated. This Index does not make any final causal statements about what causes or does not cause open source activity. It’s a tool to start to find those relationships and build an evidence base. – —————————– Red Hat ha pubblicato uno studio fatto insieme a Georgia Tech mappando l’attività open source in 75 paesi

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What makes a visualization effective? / Cosa rende efficace un’infografica?

(EN) MIX Online is a smooth community for web designers and developers. They’ve just launched a new project,  Descry, focusing on the power of data and information visualization as a communication tool and they are already sharing a series of four open source web-based visualizations. Explore them. ————- (IT) MIX Online è una community di web designers e developers. Hanno appena lanciato un nuovo progetto,  Descry,  dedicato al potere dell’infografica come strumento di comunicazione e mettono già a disposizione 4 progetti di visualizzazione grafica online, scaricabili e utilizzabili perchè open source.  Esplorali…