The Third Machine Translation Marathon, which will take place January 26-31 in Prague, Czech Republic, is hosting a Open Source Convention to advance the state of the art in machine translation.
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OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
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Firefox Turns Four!
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"Four years ago today, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 1.0. and delivered a better Web experience to millions of users..."
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National Free Software Conference
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"A National Conference on FREE SOFTWARE is being held on the 15th & 16th of November, 2008 at the campus of Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi [...] The Conference will be a milestone in the history of the Free Software movement in India..."
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Vernor Vinge, the Singularity and Free Software
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"If you're in San Diego, California, we heard about a really interesting event you'll want to attend. Two topics that are always of interest to robot builders are the Singularity and Free Software. The Free Software Foundation is holding a pizza party and Vernor Vinge, the originator of the modern version of the Technological Singularity idea, will be there..."
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Expresso Livre: an example of community/government free software collaboration in Latin America
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The adoption of free software by governments, especially in Brazil, is starting to show us the trajectory of a migration that is not only about changing from one software to another or just saving money, but a wide-reaching cultural shift.
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We then spoke about why people in general and students in particular should
contribute to Free Software and what are its values and advantages. Then we
gave a brief overview of what we had planned for the day. Later we took each
of those topics in detail and covered it in sufficient depth I feel. We described
about concepts of Revision Control System, Bug Trackers, other development
Ruby mode included in Emacs 23 ?
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"We've discussed before about wanting to include ruby-mode.el in Emacs 23, but getting the paperwork from the authors has been difficult [...] I'm going to the International Ruby Conference next week, and I'm likely to see them in person..."
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Pandora FMS 2.0 released
Pandora FMS is a monitoring software. It watches your systems and
applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those
systems (hardware, software, sensors, network equipment, etc).
Development of stable version 2.0 of Pandora FMS is over. After a long
testing period, Pandora FMS team has finished development for this
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Video, Audio and Cross Domain Usage
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"This is a heads up for a change to the HTML5 media elements that may break existing usage. If you use 'video' or 'audio' then you may need to make changes to the way you serve your media resources..."
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sarge archived
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"As already written a few days ago I was going to archive Sarge on archive.debian.org. That is done, you can get sarge from there now..."
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SELF Coursebook: Introduction to Free Software
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"A first book has been published by the SELF Project. Introduction to Free Software has been produced together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a number of recognised authors on the subjects of Free Software.
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"It is one thing for the relatively nascent Wikipedia to embrace free culture as a way to create and share new cultural works, but it is another thing for established media players constrained by traditional markets and economic forces to embrace free culture..."
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Graziano Sorbaioli on Free Software Computer Campaign
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Graziano Sorbaioli is the man behind the Free Software Computer Campaign. All he wants is summed up in just few words "DELL, we want a free software computer". This post is excerpts from an email conversation with Sorbaioli about the ideas behind this campaign.
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A Short Summary of FSCONS 2008
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Already in the preparation stages of FSCONS it became clear that we had something good and unique going. With the aim of making it a social event that bridges between the different movements working for digital freedom, we tried to construct a multifaceted but unified program that in large part emphasized the social aspects.
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Dillo 2.0 is fast, but limited
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The lightweight Dillo Web browser, in development for eight years, has always been a contender for the fastest browser available on GNU/Linux -- so much so that the Google's Chrome will have to be pretty nimble to outpace it.
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