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Roberto Galoppini comments on Dana Blankenhorn's blog "Open Source Needs Lobbyists" with examples of successful lobbying against patents in the EU.

Its been a big week for numbered lists of free advice, folks. This list is aimed at those hoping to start or run an Open Source project (the last one was for participants of somebody else's project)

Blog from PHPDeveloper.org about how to behave within an open source community

Writeup of Brian Behlendorf's talk at the Digital Freedom Expo in South Africa this week

QualOSS project tries to measure evolvability and robustness of Open Source projects

RedHat's announcement this week about applying Open Source principles to science has O'Reilly commentator Allison Randall thinking about the potential of Open Source style disclosure to speed up innovation and broaden adoption of ideas in the Alternative

A few months after founding a new non-profit to promote interoperability, the OSA has published an interoperability roadmap that will include authentication along with other standardized methods aimed at enhancing user experience

In the wake of Robin Miller's tale of Florida legislative language being purged of references to Open Document Format after lobbyists from Microsoft made a presentation, Dana Blankenhorn notices that Open Source needs real lobbyists to be effective in gov

Technewsworld article on the potential for Open Source to increase transparency in the US Voting process.

InfoWorld blogger David Rosenberg points to David Wheeler's updated and persuasive paper about the compelling case for Open Source adoption.

Sun founder spends his time now worrying about Developing Nations and the need for open curriculae.

Can open source principles be used to design a better car? Concept car project tries to find out.

Chris Messina blogs about the debate over the re-proprietization of activeCollab code and whether / what to be open about.

Editorial in Malaysian Tech Journal pretty much sums up what many Open Source advocates are hoping for as an outcome of the war on software piracy. Today in may places pirated software effectively erases the price advantage of Free and Open Source softwa

OSI Board Member Matt Asay blogs about how Open Source is changing the nature of competition in the software industry

Review of a long paper from analyst firm The 451 Group examining the trend among established technology vendors to "Go Open". Excellent discussion of the qualifications of "Open Source Companies"

Wired reports that NASA is planning to launch a project called CosmosCode that currently meets in SecondLife. CosmosCode may allow the public to write code for live space missions

Paper concludes that systems integrators and developers who achieve committer status are the big winners in Open Source.

Microinvestment, collaborative editing tools and public image repositories may make movies Open Source. Article focuses on a project called A Swarm of Angels

The government of South Korea announced a program to provide financial support to local governments and universities that choose to use Open Source programs such as Linux