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  • Open source software Libre Office finally in for commercial support from Collabora productivity

    Open source software Libre Office finally in for commercial support from Collabora productivity

    libre office was started in september 2010 and since then it has got many supporters wordwide, along with the famous linux SUSE. But even though in these tough times people are moving over from one company to the other they are still covering up fpr the great piece of spoftware called libre office.

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    The people over at the collabora productivity are quite happy with the overall performance of the
    office suite and the increasing popularity has made the situations even better for them. So the
    company is providing it a financial support so that there could be more developements in this
    ongoing project.

    Collabora’s representative said the following words –

    “That will include an enterprise-enabled, long-term supported Collabora LibreOffice release, along
    with bug fixing and security updates, For those clients requiring customization and fine-tuning,
    Collabora will offer consultancy services.”

    Now ain’t that something really good going on for the open source company, open source really does
    makes wonders possible. Some might add the current boost claimed by the upcoming Ubuntu Edge might be the reason why the software is gaining much more popularity than Microsoft’s office itself. Till
    now one needs to buy license to run MS Office on their computer whereas Libre office or Open office
    are free of cost, with small bundle size and the special ability to save files as a pdf, for which
    you surely need to pay in all other cases.

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    Collabora also added that they are quite interested in meeting up with those who have already
    invested in the company and together they will be powerful enough to support all the company’s
    needs. Other companies who might be seen investing in Libre office could be AMD (Advanced Micro
    Devices) and even though everyone has something to gain from this, some might be seen getting more profit than others. Well thats what open source is, if you don’t get something its nice, and if you
    start getting something back, then its all well and good.

    Lets hear to what Collabora has to say about its gain in all of this –

    “We’re aiming for steady, organic growth both of ourselves and the wider LibreOffice ecosystem.
    Collabora Productivity is here for the long term, and we have plenty of runway to build a
    sustainable business that delights customers.”

  • Google course builder may be the future of open source learning

    Google is well known for its great innovative tools which helps millions of people every month to actually reap something beneficial or useful for them. They recently released another useful tool on the internet which can basically be helpful for the people who might seek knowledge on internet.

    The open source course builder project lets anyone make their own learning resources, complete with scheduled activities and lessons. It is another very interesting and effective tools which gets “power searching with Google” to the next level.

    The power-searching course “was a strong success and also generated some technology that we thought would be useful to share with the world,” says Norvig.

    There are many websites, such as Udemy, that have long offered services for individual users to create (and get paid) for their own classes. Universities, however, are looking for an in-house solution, and a common code-base to evolve custom courses could be helpful.

    Google Wrote on their research blog:

    The Course Builder open source project is an experimental early step for us in the world of online education. It is a snapshot of an approach we found useful and an indication of our future direction.

    Stanford University, Indiana University, UC San Diego, saylor.org, LearningByGivingFoundation.org, Swiss Federal Institure of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and a group of universities in spain led by Universia, CRUE and Banco Santander-Universidades are considering how this experimental technology might work for some of their online courses.

    There will be an option which will help educators to connect to the Google team working on the code directly via Google Hangouts.

    [source: Google course builder, Google Research blog]

  • SSD solar panels doesn’t leak, which makes it a best alternate source

    Today, the whole world started to notice the “natural resource” crisis and there has been no perfect solution to get rid of it. There are some traditional and dominating technology – which may prove to be useful if utilised at a massive rate.

    Solar energy, wind energy, nanotech and some unexpected scientific method to generate electricity from virus – can really make the world green — if utilised properly.

    All of the Alternate source of energy have some limitation and benefits, which defines their usability. Solar energy has been widely used since a very long time and a few major companies have adapted it to feed their power-hungry machines. It is a clean and unlimited source of energy which can minimize the pollution at a huge scale. The main disadvantage of using solar energy is – its liquid fuel. Solar panels tends to leak over a small period of time, which makes it less cost efficient.

    Researchers at Northwestern University have found one way to stop the leak — get rid of the liquid used in solar panels. A new variation on the Gratzel Solar cell replaces a short-lived organic dye with a solid alternative.

    The molecular dye the solid substance replaces was corrosive, at risk of leaking and only lasted about 18-months — by replacing it, researchers plan to pave the way for a more affordable (and less toxic) alternative.

    Northwestern’s new design flaunts a 10.2-percent conversion efficiency, the highest ever recorded in a solid-state solar cell of its type — but that’s still only half of what traditional sun collectors can do. Researchers hope to improve conversion in the long run, but expect that the cost reduction alone will be enough to get the party going.

    It may not be the greenest solar technology we’ve ever seen, but who are we to judge?

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