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Speak at the OpenStreetMap Conference -  The State of the Map

Present your ideas, opinions or project to the world's largest gathering of OpenStreetMap community members - The State of the Map

Do you have something to say to an audience of mappers, hackers and community activists who have revolutionised the way maps are made and used?  read more »

Edmontorcouver is a lovely place full of lovely, intelligent, generous people. That is not the tragedy of Edmontorcouver open data.

The mayor of Edmontorcouver realized that it would benefit the people of Edmontorcouver to have good data about their city widely available. That is not the tragedy of Edmontorcouver open data.

Edmontorcouver hosted a wonderful gala to announce the generous release of great quantities of data. That is not the tragedy of Edmontorcouver open data.  read more »

At first sight, news that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is moving from the Microsoft .Net-based TradElect to the GNU/Linux-based MillenniumIT system, is just another win for free software. But the details provide some fascinating insights into the world of very high performance – and very expensive – enterprise systems.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2568&bl...

From the Linux Foundation, The Who Writes Linux paper has been updated.

Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It

Authors: Greg Kroah-Hartman, SuSE Labs/Novell Inc., Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net, Amanda McPherson, Linux Foundation  read more »

The third Ontario Linux Fest will be held on Saturday, 24 October 2009.

I'll be giving a talk on OpenStreetMap as it applies to emergency response and search and rescue for CERT / ALERT in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA, on Thursday February 19th.

What: Introduction to OpenStreetMap for CERT[1] (Community Emergency Response Team)

When: Thursday, 19 February 2009 at 19:00 (7:00PM)

Where:268 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, New Hampshire, 03053

Who: Open to the public. Limited seating. Limited on-site parking. Free.  read more »

OpenStreetMap allows people to map their community and show the things that are important to them. It is a collection of tools and data to collect information and create beautiful maps that you can use in creative and unexpected ways. There are more people contributing maps data to OpenStreetMap every week. In September of 2008 there were over 60,000 contributors world wide. Update: there are over 133,000 contributors as of 05 May 2009.

Many of those contributors are cyclists and are active in their communities. Why is that?  read more »