Open-source governance

Open-source governance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Open-source governance is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open source and open content movements to democratic principles in order to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document. Legislation is democratically opened to the general citizenry, employing their collective wisdom to benefit the decision-making process and improve democracy"


Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki. Data that has been encoded can be used in semantic searches, used for aggregation of pages, displayed in formats like maps, calendars and graphs, and exported to the outside world via formats like RDF and CSV."

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The Facebook Mobile Release Process

The Facebook Mobile Release Process: @ InfoQ



Interesting... Facebook as "mobile" company,

now integrated mobile development to same teams that create web features.



Timed releases for mobile apps @ Facebook



qconsf.com/system/files/presentation-slides/The-Facebook-Mobile-Release-Process.pdf



Similar to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox,

not Facebook has regular release schedule (every 2 months?),

where new features are included when they are ready.



Predictable schedule re-assures developers that they will have a chance next time,

and makes it easier to synchronize teams and efforts.



Using Git, automated builds and tests, CI, OS tools