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with the additions brought about by GNOME 3.26 to Fedora 27 Workstation,

making it easier to build applications and improving the overall desktop

experience,” said Matthew Miller, a Fedora project leader.

Canon joins the Open Invention Network community

Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community

in history, has announced that Canon has joined as a community member.

As a global leader in such fields as professional and consumer imaging and

printing systems and solutions, and having expanded its medical and industrial

equipment businesses, Canon is demonstrating its commitment to open source

software as an enabler of innovation across a wide spectrum of industries.

“Open source technology, especially Linux, has led to profound increases

in capabilities across a number of key industries, while increasing overall

product and service efficiency,” said Hideki Sanatake, an executive officer,

as well as deputy group executive of corporate intellectual properties and

legal headquarters at Canon. “By joining Open Invention Network, we are

demonstrating our continued commitment to innovation, and supporting it with

patent non-aggression in Linux.”

OIN’s community practices patent non-aggression in core Linux and

adjacent open source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to

one another on a royalty-free basis.

GTech partners with Red Hat to catalyse open source

adoption in Kerala

The Kerala government’s IT policy

encourages the adoption of open source

and open technologies in the public

domain. Hence, the Group of Technology

Companies (GTech), the industry body for IT companies in Kerala, has

recently signed an MoU with Red Hat.

The partnership aims to create enhanced awareness on various open source

technologies amongst IT professionals in the state. The MoU will facilitate

partnerships between Red Hat and GTech member companies. The efforts

will focus on research and product development in open source software

technologies.

The state government has also emphasised the need to promote open

source among SMEs. According to the terms of the MoU, Red Hat will

organise events in IT parks across the state. These events were kickstarted in

November 2017, and include lectures, seminars and presentations spanning the

Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, analytics, development tools,

content management systems, desktop publishing and other connected topics.

Amazon extends support to Facebook and Microsoft

Amazon has announced its ONNX-MXNet

Python package to import Open Neural

Network Exchange (ONNX) deep learning

models into Apache MXNet. This move

indicates the company’s support for Facebook and Microsoft in their efforts to

open source artificial intelligence (AI).

With this package, developers running models based on open source ONNX

will be able to run them on Apache MXNet. Basically, this allows AI developers

to keep models but switch networks, as opposed to starting from scratch.

Canonical and Rancher

Labs announce

Kubernetes cloud native

platform

Canonical, in partnership with

Rancher Labs, has announced

a turnkey application delivery

platform built on Ubuntu,

Kubernetes and Rancher 2.0.

The new cloud native platform

will make it easy for users to

deploy, manage and operate

containers on Kubernetes

through a single workflow

management portal—from

development-and-testing to

production environments. Built

on Canonical’s distribution of

Kubernetes and Rancher 2.0,

the cloud native platform will

simplify enterprise usage of

Kubernetes with seamless user

management, access control

and cluster administration.

“Our partnership with

Rancher provides end-to-end

workflow automation for

the enterprise development

and operations team on

Canonical’s distribution

of Kubernetes,” said Mark

Shuttleworth, CEO of

Canonical. “Ubuntu has

long been the platform of

choice for developers driving

innovation with containers.

Canonical’s Kubernetes

offerings include consulting,

integration and fully-managed

Kubernetes services on-

premises and on-cloud,”

Shuttleworth added.

JANUARY 2018

OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU