Open Source in the National System for GeoSpatial Intelligence – FOSS4G-NA 2012

If you want to know more about what is going on in the industry, watch this video.

Current Status and Future Directions for Open Source in the National System for GeoSpatial Intelligence A Sponsor Day Presentation on Thursday, April 12 at the 2012 FOSS4G North American Conference in Washington, DC Introduction by Dr. Christopher Tucker (~30 min) Panel: Open Source in Action in the DoD IC, Initiatives and Challenges (~30 min) Eric Schwarz, NGA Nathan Frantz, US Army Corps of Engineers Elizabeth Lyon, US Army Corps of Engineers Dr. Christopher Tucker, (Moderator)

Fedora 17 Review – Linux Distro Reviews

The new version of Fedora was released about a month ago. Here is a good review of the new issue.

==Should I review the KDE version of Fedora 17 or wait for Kororra 17 KDE?== A quick review of the Beefy Miracle also known as Fedora 17 rocking the Gnome 3.4 desktop. Overall, a quality release from the Fedora community – with amazing speed and stability. Perfect OS for the Linux enthusiast – you can really turn this distro into whatever you want it to be. Did I mention it also has an insanely fast boot time? Links: Fedora Release notes: fedoraproject.org Install guides: www.howtoforge.com My Google+: plus.google.com My Blog: infinitelygalactic.blogspot.com My twitter twitter.com

Socrates Premium WordPress Theme – Created by Marketers for Marketers

zc.me The Socrates Premium WordPress Theme comes with inbuilt Clickbank and Adsense monetization ability which makes it easy to start making money in a few minutes after installation. It’s also search engine optimized to help drive your website to the first page of Google search listings. The Socrates Premium WordPress Theme also comes with internet marketing and wordpress training videos to teach people who have no idea about how to make money online. Other additional videos teach how to find a profitable niche market to get into and how to make money from Google Adsense. The Socrates Premium theme also helps you to find a great and profitable domain name for your business as well as great templates for sales and squeeze pages to help rake in tons of cash in commissions.

Why Open Education Matters? Open Source for Education

Open Educational Resources have much in common with the Open Source movement in software development. Open Source collaboration resulted in higher quality software, which is more secure, performs better, it can be customized to a higher degree than commercial software. Many parallels exist between Open Educational Resources and Open Source. Higher quality of education may be the result of OER based on the pattern of the Open Source approach. This video is licensed by creativecommons.org The presentation slides are available at: prezi.com

Ubuntu Linux Themes

Ubuntu can utilize many different themes. All you need to know is how to install them. You could even install an XP theme to fool all those MS lovers.

Want a cool theme for ubuntu? This tutorial shows you howto install themes on your linux (gnome) desktop, whether you want the Windows XP look or just wanting to download something unique. For a text guide: www.linuxhaxor.net

Unity vs Gnome Shell – Desktop Comparison

Worked hard on this one. =o) There’s been a lot of controversy around choosing Unity over Gnome 3.. || Join the chat: twitter.com || ..and many of you have requested my opinion. Since recent releases, Ubuntu has used Unity as its default desktop environment. In this week’s episode of OS.ALT I describe the important differences for you, and what the improvements found in the latest version of Unity released with Ubuntu 12.04 mean in comparison with Gnome 3. Hint: Ubuntu 12.04 really floored me, in no small part due to Unity and the HUD.