In every business the rule is that if your service is slow, you’ll loose customers, and it certainly applies online too. If your website takes two seconds to load instead of a half second, you’ll loose visitors and business. Even if it is just about improving by a few seconds, on the web it does […]
Who would not want to have a fast service? No matter how good your web service is, if it takes 5 seconds to load a page, people will dislike using it. Even search engines dislike slow servers and decrease their ranking. Faster is always better. In our article a few months ago we asked what […]
Open source might make you think about geeks who mostly talk to computers with programming languages. Actually human language skills are just as important. Translators are needed in every international open source project. Localization becomes a necessary task in almost every open source project in Finland. We have been translating software interfaces into Finnish in […]
Most Android phone manufacturers provide operating system upgrades, so you can run the latest version of Android even with an older smart phone. With closed software phones like iPhone this is not possible, since Apple wants to force its customers into always buying a new phone. However not all Android phone manufacturers provide upgrades, or […]
FLOSS Manuals is here to help people use the open source software programs. There is a clear lack of useful end user manuals for open source software. Open source software has to be combined with open source manuals created in the same spirit of collaboration. And the content should not be locked down but forever […]
The official Android project only releases versions for the ARM platform, but there is an unofficial porting project for the Intel x86 platform called Android-x86. Using this version you can in theory install Android on any home computer lying around. In practice however you need to consider what kind of components your device has and […]
The mobile devices scene is very interesting to follow at the moment. All competitors have a huge urge to overtake the market, since we know that in a few years billions of people on this planet will buy a mobile device, and whoever gets the biggest market share now, is likely to make huge profits […]
Seravo staff member Otto Kekäläinen was given the Nordic Free Software Award 2012 at FSCONS held in Göteborg on the 9th to 11th of November. The award was shared by two people. The other recipient was Ole Tange, who is the director of IT-Politisk Forening, a non-governmental organisation that has succeeded in bringing Free Software to the public sector in […]
Even though Steven Elop, Intel and the Linux Foundation killed the Meego project, the code base is not dead. In October 2011 the Mer Project was forked out of Meego and quickly attracted the development community that had grown distrust in the original Meego project, for very obivious and good reasons, of course. In the […]
The Library Directory (hakemisto.kirjastot.fi) is to our knowledge the first completely open public sector IT project in Finland. Not only is the whole source code is available at GitHub, but also the revision history has been public since day one and the project is open for collaboration. Anybody who finds a flaw can file a bug. Heck, […]
To honor the OKFestival currently held in Helsinki, Finland, we’ll publish this week a few articles on open data work we’ve done. You might also bump into some of us at the festival! By using selection path analysis, we demonstrate that it is possible to create a political campaign with maximum voter popularity. Media corporations […]
In May 2012 I (Otto Kekäläinen) attended an internal event by the Ministry of Employment and Economy that was intended for officials working within the branch. There where two outsider speakers, and the second was Pasi Mäkinen of Microsoft Finland. Avoimen lähdekoodin ratkaisut palvelujen kehittämisessä (2012-05-29) from Otto Kekäläinen In my presentation (in Finnish, available […]
Presentation at the Devaamo Summit 2012: Best practises for HTML5 servers (Devaamo Summit 2012) from Otto Kekäläinen
The VALO-CD project was started in 2008 as a marketing campaign for open source software (also known as Free Software). The highest priority was to make everything as easy as possible. All the user needs to do, is to pop the CD in their computer, and a program will start automatically, where the user can […]
We want HTML5 and other open standards by the WWW Consortium to become the universal computer interface platform on any decive, anywhere and for anyone. HTML5 has clear advantages that beats any other options in so many ways: Free and open based on standards anybody can read and use without restrictions standards are drafted in […]
Alexander Stubb, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed a delegation to develop Finland’s country brand in September 2008, and Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia and Shell, was invited to be its Chairman. The work culminated in a country brand report published at the end of 2010 called “Mission for Finland – How Finland […]
