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[News] Industry Support for Free Software Comes from Google, Others

  • Subject: [News] Industry Support for Free Software Comes from Google, Others
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:08:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Entries flood in for Google-sponsored NZ Open Source Awards

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| Nominations close today for the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, 
| which has already managed to attract more than 120 entries and sign up Google 
| as its lead sponsor.  
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http://m-net.net.nz/1854/latest-news/latest-news/entries-flood-in-for-google-sponsored-nz-open-source-awa.php

ForLinux offers schools £10,000 Software Freedom Day open source prize

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| ForLinux technical director Steve Nice said, "It is a global event with about 
| 270 countries involved, and we want to use the day to raise awareness of the 
| benefits of free software."  
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/16/226229/forlinux-offers-schools-10000-software-freedom-day-open-source.htm


Related:

open source document analysis and OCR system

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| OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially
| intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion
| efforts. We expect that it will also be an excellent OCR system
| for many other applications.
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http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/


open source document analysis and OCR system

,----[ Quote ]
| OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially
| intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion
| efforts. We expect that it will also be an excellent OCR system
| for many other applications.
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http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/


Google Summer of Code supports open game developement

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| Some of the supported projects are related to linux and gaming.
| These projects include:
| 
| Thousand Parsec a framework for space strategy games, BZFlag, a 3D
| battle tank game, ScummVM, a software to run old adventure games
| and last but not least the two 3d Engines Crystalspace and OGRE
| offer a variaty of themes to work on for the three month period
| of the stipends.
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http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1984

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