Another not very recent tv commercial, but it is funny.
Lesson: Don't bother your machines if you don't want them to upraise against you.
RHoK Hackathon: Offering solutions for World problems
Random Hacks of Kindness, also know as RHoK, it's an initiative that aims to develop open source solutions for problems in risk management and climate changes. The RHoK collects these problems and helps to organize events in different cities providing the necesary resources to let software designers and developers work together in solutions.
The RHoK was founded by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Nasa and the World Bank. The first "Hackathon" was held in Mountain View, California in November 2009 and it was name "RHoK 0". "I'm Ok" and "Tweak the tweet" are examples of the applications created during this event. Both applications were used in Haiti and Chile earthquake response.
Nasa's Space Shuttle Documentary
Recently, NASA has added to their Video Gallery a documentary about the 30 years of history of the space shuttle. The video is about one hour and 20 minutes long. If you want to watch it, this is the link .
Linux's 20th Anniversary
On 1991, Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki, got the idea of developing his own operating system. After he sent a message to a newsgroup explaining his idea and asking for some feedback, many developers joined him in the development of the code. So, what started as a hobby became one of the biggest colaboration projects in in the history of computing. The final product of this work was the Linux Kernel.
Two decades later, Linux Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of this project. The foundation will hold events in diferent locations around the world:
- LinuxConnJapan
- LinuxConn will be held in Vancouber, Canada. Agust 17 - 19, 2011
- LinuxConn Europe will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. October 26 - 28, 2011
- LinuxConn Brazil, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazin. November 17 -18, 2011
Also, the anual T-Shirt design and video contests were opened. This year the topic was the "20th Anniversary of Linux". You can see the winner of the T-shirt design contest here, and the winner of the video contest will be unveiled at the LinuxConn in Vancouver.
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