Opennovation News Archives

Opennovation News gives the latest news about the Opennovation consulting company and its work in the world of open source engineering tools. The plan is to release one issue per month.

For up-to-date news about open source engineering, see the Opennovation.org News site.

• August, 2008  This issue describes the Debian 5.0 "Lenny" freeze, the North Shore Tehcnology Council Fall 2008 breakfast forum schedule, the deal.II finite element analysis library, and a number of recent releases of open source engineering software.
• July, 2008  This issue discussed the Bentham Open Acces Journals; reminded readers of the Call for Papers for an Open Source materials symposium; reviewed Code_Aster, and introduced the Opennovation Ubuntu repository.
• May, 2008  This issue started with two TMS articles: a JOM paper, and the Call for Papers for an Open Source materials symposium; also an “under the hood” review of libMesh, an update to Opennovation.com, and a correction to the April issue.
• April, 2008  The National Academies ICME report led off this issue, followed by OpenCASCADE, the restoration of Babel to Debian, updates to Opennovation.org, Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and the Walk for Hunger.
• March, 2008  This issue described a set of recent talks by Opennovation Principal Adam Powell, the Salomé finite element simulation framework, and new software for visualizing ternary phase diagrams.
• February, 2008  This first installment of Opennovation News features: an announcement of a teaching resource award for founder and Principal Adam Powell, the CAELinux distribution, new Debian packages, and new additions to opennovation.org.