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Undergrad/Graduate Research
Client Work
Talent Placement (co-ops, volunteers, full-time)
User/Community Groups
Scholarship and Teaching
Next Hackathon (HOME): Election Night -- Tuesday Nov 3rd, 6pm-Midnight @ MAGIC Center (87-1600). Co-sponsored by RIT Dept of Political Science & MAGIC Center & Red Hat
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Red Hat Open Source and Standards Team (OSAS)
Fedora Community Action and Impact Lead
Fedora Council Member and EDU Objective Lead
Executives thought the 50 year old mine was nearly depleted. Test drilling indicated there might be unknown deposits on 55,000-acre property
Conventional test methods were expensive, and innaccurate. (Dig a hole. No gold? Dig another hole. Repeat)
CEO Rob McEwen attended an MIT course in 1999, where Linux development was discussed, and had a "eureka moment."
Presented the idea to his head geologist, saying: "I'd like to take all of our geology, all the data we have that goes back to 1948, and share it with the world. Then we'll give people an incentive to tell us where we're going to find the next 6 million ounces of gold."
Launched the Goldcorp Challenge with $575K in prize money for best suggestions of where to dig, and posted the usually secretive mining data on the internet.
"By 2002 there were more companies exploring in Red Lake ... than in any other place in the world."
52 submissions. 25 semi-finalists (each got $10K). Top Prize was $105K.
Of the 110 potential deposits, half were entirely new to the company. 80% of which yielded gold. Some sites previously identified by company were also suggested by contestants, confirming internal research.
Contestants' unconventional approaches led to entirely new types of innovation, such as computer visualization, multi-sampling drill holes, and new analytic approaches; all of which were adopted by the company.
Goldcorp immediately hired 10 of the contestants
Market capitalization: over $2.5 billion in 2005
New Gold Discovered: 8 million ounces in first 3 years after the contest's launch
[0]: http://www.informationweek.com/software/business-intelligence/open-source-thinking-taps-a-rich-vein/159907864
[1]: http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=G.TO
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system
source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/08/13/august-2015-web-server-survey.html
"...90% of the Fortune 500 companies are now Red Hat customers."
"...Of the top 100 supercomputers today, 92% are on Linux."
"Linux is the default choice for when you're looking for a platform today. That's an important subtlety--the difference between being a viable alternative and being the default choice."
In a recent blog post, a senior developer at Walmart Labs explained that the company's embrace of open source costs big money. Eran Hammer observed that Walmart's backing for the Hapi project is a "significant expense (exceeding $2M)."
"Walmart has put in place a set of metrics to estimate the return on investment. Hammer explains "every five startups using Hapi translated to the value of one full-time developer, while every 10 large companies translated to one full-time senior developer." In return for its extra work on open development, Walmart gets high-quality programming at a cost far below that of recruiting and retaining extra staff. In turn, this demonstrable return allows the company to justify further development investment because "by paying developers to work on Hapi full time, we get back twice (or more) that much in engineering value."
source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608897/open-source-software/walmart-s-investment-in-open-source-isn-t-cheap.html
The Human Genome Project
Wikipedia
Science
Many many many many others...
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