Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

Economic Impact of OSS

April 18th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

There is increasing recognition of the economic impact of Open Source Software (OSS), offering productivity gains for local industries and generating export revenue by servicing offshore markets.

The Australian Open Source Industry Community Report 2008 says “…conservative projection of earnings suggests that the Open Source industry generates $500 million in revenue each year, with over 50% of that being directly related to Open Source”

Posted in Standards & Compliance

Ministry of Justice Open Source Adoption Paper

March 13th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 2 Comments »

Barry Polley at the Ministry of Justice has updated his paper covering the adoption of Open Source technologies in government.

Posted in Open Source, Standards & Compliance

Macron support in open source web applications

February 7th, 2008 by Ghim Hock Lee | 4 Comments »

We examine support for the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū required by the Māori alphabet in leading open source web applications MediaWiki, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Silverstripe and Plone and discover mixed results.

Posted in Open Source, Product Evaluations, Standards & Compliance

Generating Excel Spreadsheets with Māori Macrons in PHP

January 9th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 15 Comments »

After recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!

Posted in Developer Resources