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SilverStripe a finalist in three categories at the New Zealand Open Source Awards

We might need to get a new thesaurus here at SilverStripe Ltd, to express exactly how excited we are to be finalists in the New Zealand Open Source Awards.We're nominated for Open Source Use in Business, Open Source Project for SilverStripe CMS, and also, the NIWA Ocean Survey 20/20 Portal...

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Unlock Government data! SilverStripe sponsors the Open Government Data Barcamp

At the end of August New Zealand's first Open Government Data Barcamp will take place at the National Library in Wellington. The barcamp is an open, participant driven event organised and run by people who have an interest in making government-held data freely available.

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Internet Blackout

UPDATE: 12 March: One of the main companies that was needed to make this piece of legislation happen has said they won't support it! A TelstraClear representative said, "...we have had unprecedented customer concern and we can't try to make a bad law work." More at the original article.

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Creative Freedom Foundation

Yesterday, the Creative Freedom Foundation launched. What is it? It's a group of Kiwis raising awareness around some terrible legislation that's set to go into law in about two months' time.

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New Zealand Open Source Awards

Over twenty finalists have now been announced for this year's New Zealand Open Source awards.

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NZ Summer of Code

New Zealanders who missed out on the Google Summer of Code can, starting Friday, apply to be a part of the second New Zealand one, run during our summer! Last year SilverStripe choose two students, Andrew, and Jeremy, who continue to be paid to work on our open source project.

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