{"id":1981,"date":"2005-11-29T00:03:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T00:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2005-11-29T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T00:03:31","slug":"portland_open_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Portland: Open Source Central?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2005-11-27-oregon-open-source_x.htm?csp=34\">Elizabeth Armstrong Moore<\/a>. Consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel have developed their own open-source labs here.\n<li>Linus Torvalds, author of Linux, the first mainstream open-source operating system, moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to work at the Open Source Development Lab in Portland.\n<li>In mid-October the city hosted the first Government Open Source Conference, a gathering for state and municipal technology managers interested in using open-source software in the public sector.\n<li> Most recently, Oregon Gov. Theodore Kulongoski announced a $350,000 contribution from Google to develop open-source software, hardware, and curricula at Oregon State University, which boasts an Open Source Lab, and Portland State University. Portland&#8217;s standing as a hub for open-source development is not lost on the governor, who is eager to bring even more jobs and investment to what he calls a &#8220;burgeoning open technology cluster.&#8221;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Armstrong Moore. Consider the following: Companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel have developed their own open-source labs here. Linus Torvalds, author of Linux, the first mainstream open-source operating system, moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to work at the Open Source Development Lab in Portland. In mid-October the city hosted the first Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}