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I'm in seat 14E (middle seat because I forgot to check in online yesterday) on my way to Chicago. I'm headed to the NACUBO conference where I'll be speaking about the Kuali community with Kathleen McNeely (AVP at Indiana University and Kuali Financial System's business leader), and Rich Andrews, Controller at UC Irvine (an investing and implementing institution).

I'm en route to Paris for the 9th Sakai conference Saturday morning writing on the plane. Before boarding I ran across an interesting and very relevant post about the French government support for open source.

The post describes a competitiveness cluster in Paris called SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION, that has established a working group on open source (Logiciel Libre) who's goal is to "help structure the open source ecosystem in the Paris area."

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Red Hat settled a patent dispute this week that had potentially wide reaching impact to the open source community. Matt Asay points out nicely that Red Hat has demonstrated the open-source way to quash patent lawsuits. 

The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) announced last week Indiana University is the recipient of the association’s 2008 Innovation Award. The NACUBO Awards program is focused on innovation in the management of college and university business and financial affairs.

“With the KUALI Financial System, Indiana University exemplifies how colleges and universities are working diligently to operate efficiently and to save money,” notes John Walda, president and CEO of NACUBO.

Let's heed the call for an open source census with the open source discovery tool.

We've long been maintaining that open source technologies are in wide—and often unrecognized—use in many organizations. Now we have an initiative and a tool to help demonstrate that claim with real numbers.

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