Development by Davis: “Crowdsourced reports save emergency services overwhelmed by Hurricane Sandy” plus 3 more

Crowdsourced reports save emergency services overwhelmed by Hurricane Sandy
Open source provides schools with low-cost, high quality software
Get your application in for the Steam for Linux beta
Opengov techies give back with apps and expertise

Crowdsourced reports save emergency services overwhelmed by Hurricane Sandy

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

The 9-1-1 system is overwhelmed with real emergencies during weather events like Hurricane Sandy, so if you want to report a downed tree, power outage, or clogged storm drain, you need another way to do so—SeeClickFix provides that forum.

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Open source provides schools with low-cost, high quality software

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Open source can provide schools with high quality, well-functioning IT solutions at low cost, according to a case study done by VTT, a Finnish government research institute. The researchers looked at the use of Linux and other open source applications by the Kasavuoren Secondary School in Kauniainen, a municipality near Helsinki. The case study, available since May 2011, underpins a plea to schools to increase their use of free and open source software.

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Get your application in for the Steam for Linux beta

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:38 AM PDT

The long-awaited beta test for Steam for Linux has arrived. There are only 1,000 spots available for testers, and Valve is looking for experienced Linux users. (I suspect if you can't answer the questions on the application, you probably don't qualify.) Valve also held an internal beta at the end of September.

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Opengov techies give back with apps and expertise

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Smaller governments, typically those in rural towns, don't have the IT capacity to foster serious innovation in citizen participation like governments in larger cities do. Two groups decided it was time to give back and have come together to share their technical knowledge and expertise: OpenColorado and Colorado Code for Communities will combine community, platform, and digital literacy to create a hosted service platform that includes open data with different web and mobile applications.