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The Drupal Association recently donated $4,000 to support the hosting efforts of the OSU Open Source Lab. Drupal is one of the most popular open source content management systems. It is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. It is flexible and extensible with dozens of freely available add-on modules to enable customized features.
Drupal's infrastructure is provided by the OSU Open Source Lab, and we are grateful for the Drupal Project's donation to support our efforts to help the open source community. You can learn more about Drupal at http://drupal.org and about the Drupal Association at http://association.drupal.org.

Open source has been a driving force in innovation, breaking all sorts of barriers between the end users and the development community, making them all equal partners. Today, we have broken yet another barrier: species. This canine adds another dimension to the already diverse world of open source by proving that to be involved in the OSS community you don't necessarily need to be tech savvy, or even human.
Open Minds. Open Doors. Open Kennels. Open Source.

Two students’ outstanding work with a computer project to help educate children in developing countries has led to a corporate gift of $500,000 to the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University.
RealNetworks, Inc., was inspired to make a donation to OSU after becoming acquainted with sophomores Michael Burns and Justin Gallardo, volunteer software programmers for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). This international venture aims to create a children’s laptop that costs $100 – making it affordable for governments to purchase one for every child. Countries including Brazil, Nigeria, Rwanda and Thailand have signed on, with 1 million units ordered as of February 2007.