<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dru Lavigne</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial: Open Data (February 2008)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/2008</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/119</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On February 8, as the Open Source Definition and the Open Source Initiative entered their second decade, Bruce Perens published his reflections in State of Open Source Message: A New Decade for Open Source. He states his intent was to provide &quot;another way of talking about Free Software, tailored to the ears of business people&quot;. Seeing that Gartner is predicting that &quot;by 2011 at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code&quot;, it would appear that the open source message has succeeded in reaching the ears of business people.

While awareness of open source code has reached a certain level of maturity, the innovation possibilities extend beyond the code itself. As you'll see in this issue of the OSBR, awareness of open &quot;data&quot; is still in its infancy, resulting in many untapped opportunities.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">February 2008</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network
Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for O'Reilly and DNSStuff.com and is author of the books BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.</style></custom1></record></records></xml>