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Episode: 1539
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Title: HPR1539: An Open Source News Break from Opensource.com
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1539/hpr1539.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 04:47:27
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Hello hacker public radio, this is semiotic robotic with an open source news break from
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opensource.com.
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Here are a few of the open source stories our community has been discussing lately.
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We recently published an insightful explanation of Devcoin, the new cryptocurrency specifically
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designed to support open source development.
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Writer Dean Walsh calls Devcoin, which is a fork of Bitcoin, an ethical cryptocurrency.
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Because 90% of Devcoin's mind goes straight into the digital wallets of open source software
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and creative commons media producers.
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Walsh explains that Devcoin can help fund bounty programs that fuel open source and open
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cultural development.
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Also on opensource.com, community moderator Joshua Holm tells us about open source projects
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that allow scholars to work with Anglo-Saxon source materials.
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From textbooks and dictionaries to digitized manuscripts, he writes, these projects make
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it possible to learn old English and work with some of the original source material anywhere
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in the world, with nothing more than an internet connection and a web browser.
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Holm then provides an overview of these open source tools, like the free electronic version
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of Peter S. Baker's book Introduction to Old English and several digitized old English
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dictionaries.
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Holm also offers a link to the British Library's digitized copy of Beowulf and its original
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native old English, so you can try your hand at reading this classic tale the way it
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originally appeared.
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And finally, in government news, opensource.com community manager Jason Hibbets brings
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us an exclusive interview with Lee Heyman, director of new media technologies at the executive
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office of the president in the United States of America.
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Heyman discusses his early work as a systems administrator, hired to work on the campaign
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team for a senator named Barack Obama, and chronicles the path that led to his working
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for the United States government.
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Heyman also discusses the complexities involved in opening the White House GitHub page, the White
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House's recent sponsorship of hackathons and the infamous Death Star petition that
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gains so much traction on the government's We The People Petition site.
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Heyman remembers the day the petition officially garnered a response from the White House,
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saying, quote, the day we published the response, January 12, 2013, was the White House's
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third busiest day on record, and the response itself remains one of the busier pages on
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our site, end quote.
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That's all for today's open source news break from opensource.com.
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You'll find links to the stories I've discussed in the show notes for this episode.
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And as always, you'll find even more open source stories at opensource.com.
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For up to the minute open source news, follow us on Facebook or Twitter at opensourceway.
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Until next time, this is semiotic robotic, wishing you peace, love, and open source.
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