The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the group responsible for the ePUB specification chose the launch of TOC today to announce their new ePUB 3.o reader Readium, a «a
new open source initiative to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF EPUB ® 3 standard.»
This principled model for an open access publishing cooperative draws inspiration from the SCOAP3 cooperative that has enabled particle physics journals to go open access, as well as from the many libraries hosting open access journals and
supporting open source initiatives such as LOCKSS, DSpace and the Public Knowledge Project.
He misses as well, in my estimation, the role strong leadership and community play in
successful open source initiatives (for every successful open source project there are many failed ones and my hypothesis is that leadership is at the core of these successes).
Now previously the company was known for letting users trade the digital currency bitcoin, but it has since moved away from that and has now started its
own open source initiative called Spark.
It fails to grasp the DIY potential of much technology, including the benefit of
open source initiatives.
Some are initiatives - based, such as strategic sourcing, the use of shared services, commercial - off - the - shelf (COTS) software, and
open source initiatives,» Gartner's Thielmann told the E-Commerce Times.
Bloq is also a member of the Hyperledger Project,
an open source initiative of The Linux Foundation.
The Hyperledger project is
an open source initiative that aims to advance the use of Blockchain technology for the recording and verification of transactions.