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Submission + - OpenFDA (open.fda.gov) API: "temporary suspension of updates"

aikawa writes: The OpenFDA API is used by developers to get information about drugs, recalls, medical devices, and adverse events.

Since March 31, the OpenFDA status page reads: "there is a temporary suspension of updates to the openFDA datasets".

This is impacting third-party developers, and there is speculation that it might be linked to ongoing changes at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), which is set to loose 20,000 full-time employees under DOGE. OpenFDA is one of the most-used government Open Data APIs, its demise would be a serious setback for the Open Data movement.

Comment Open Source implementation of Play Services (Score 5, Interesting) 245

Google is moving more and more utilities to Play Services, which is not open source.
Play Services is not only about Google-related services, it is also about OAuth for instance.
Unknowing developers rely on Play Services, making their apps incompatible with pure-Android devices.

To solve this problem, an Open Source implementation of Google Play Services is being developed:
http://softwarerecs.stackexcha...

Comment Open source tools to create private cloud storage (Score 1) 166

If your company/country wants to create its own private cloud storage, here is the fast way:

1) Set up an Alfresco server on Linux. Enterprise-class, scalable, very customizable.
2) Have users install CmisSync, it looks like a Dropbox client, but syncs with Alfresco (or any other CMIS-compliant server).

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