Open source math software competes in the classroomĬreator of SageMath, an open source mathematics software system, William Stein tells us how teachers can now easily use Python and R in their courses and collaborate in real time to manage their online courses with the same cutting edge software used by top mathematicians at the best universities in the world. This is the story of ownCloud's collaboration with the IT team behind the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, the European research organization CERN, as well as Australia's countrywide networking provider for research institutions, AARNET (Australia's Academic and Research Network).Ģ. Open collaboration, CERN's particles, ownCloud, and petabytes In the second article, Rikki Endsley interviews Logan Abbott, President at SourceForge Media, which is the company that now owns SourceForge and Slashdot, about their recent past and plans for the future.ģ. Still reeling, SourceForge looks to the future The top #5 and #4 spots in the list this week are part of a two-part series where Rikki Endsley examines the question, "What happens when selling a site means selling a community?" In the first article, she looks at the considerations ownCloud CEO Frank Karlitschek had to make when selling his first startup, a network of open source community sites.Ĥ. When selling a site means selling a community Google Photos, instead, is a mobile or web app, with cloud storage.In this week's Top 5, we highlight open source alternatives to Google's Picasa for organizing your photos, a cutting-edge math tool for the classroom called SageMath, ownCloud's collaboration with CERN and AARNET to reach it's next milestone, and a two-part series that examines SourceForge Media's recent past and future plans and the considerations ownCloud CEO Frank Karlitschek had to make when selling his first startup.ĥ. Picasa, on the other hand, displayed all the images at a glance.Īnother critic was that Picasa was a desktop program with cloud storage. One of the common critics has been how slow does Google Photos charge your photos as you browse through the app. Many users struggled to adapt to Google Photos, as Picasa was different. Make sure to check this article to find out more alternatives, as well as the differences between them. Some other alternative apps are Windows and MacOs Photos Gallery, Adobe Lightroom, Photoscape, Dropbox, and Flickr. Google Photos was the recommendation from Google, but the services had some differences (more on that below). Picasa’s users went crazy to find which tool to move on to. As for Picasa Web Albums, it was shut down on 1st May 2016. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products."įrom 15th March 2016 onwards, Picasa’s desktop app stopped receiving updates (but it continued to work). "After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. In 2016, Google decided to shut down Picasa and Picasa Web Albums.Īs stated in this article written by Google, the decision to shut down Picasa was part of their efforts to focus on Google Photos, a newer photo-sharing/storage service. Picasa Web Albums was a well-known feature of Picasa that allowed users to share photo albums with friends and family.
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