In this version of our open supply information roundup, we check out two open supply corporations getting funding, the FDA open sources app code, Barcelona upping its open supply funding, and extra.
Open supply corporations end funding rounds
In the final two weeks, IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat led the open supply enterprise headlines. But two different corporations that develop open supply software program additionally made some daring monetary strikes that stuffed their coffers fairly properly.
Hashicorp introduced it has raised $100 million from two enterprise capital corporations. The maker of instruments for managing cloud purposes plans to make use of that funding “to boost its open-source and commercial product development roadmaps, accelerate hiring and step up customer-facing activities such as training.” That funding additionally helped push the corporate’s valuation to $1.9 billion (USD).
Neo4j, which develops open supply graph databases, did not do too badly, both. The firm pulled in $80 million (USD) in investments, which doubles the quantity of funding it is managed to draw. According to Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem, the corporate will use that cash to “grow its developer tools and support popular use cases.” Eifrem add that the infusion of money additionally supplies “Neo4j with the resources to serve our new and existing customers with the best graph platform to harness connected data for AI.”
FDA releases open supply code
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the United States has open sourced the code for its MyStudies app. The app, which is obtainable for Android and iOS, allows medical researchers to gather affected person knowledge to be used in scientific trials and research.
The supply code and documentation for MyStudies is obtainable on on GitHub and the FDA hopes that “developers or hospital and academic medical center researchers can customize and rebrand MyStudies for their own purposes.”
Barcelona will increase its funding in open supply
The metropolis of Barcelona has attain an essential milestone. This 12 months, nearly 80% of town’s IT funds is dedicated to open supply. On high of that, Barcelona has made eight of its tasks available on GitHub, with seven extra to observe.
Xavier Roca, Barcelona’s director of IT improvement, says town intends to hyperlink nearly all of its IT spending to open supply by 2020. Until then, Roca says, Barcelona will “continue to work with proprietary software solutions, as we have systems in place that require maintenance.”
Analyzing feelings with open supply software program
Machines are getting nearer to higher recognizing human feelings, because of open source software developed by a group of European researchers. Called the MixedEmotions Toolkit, the software program can study to acknowledge “emotions through text, audio and video processing.”
Mixed Emotions is made up of several modules that analyze textual content and multimedia and relationships in social networks, and does machine translation between a number of European languages. The researchers additionally developed a Python package deal referred to as Senpy, “for developing and publishing emotion analysis services and tools, mainly focused on text processing.”
The supply code for the toolkit is available on GitHub.
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