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This week on the Daily Beat: What does it mean to create a fully functioning open source city?
Today on the Daily Beat, Wednesday September 9, 2015: Listen to part 2 of our interview with Jason Hibbets, a senior community evangelist in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat where he is a community manager for Opensource.com. He has been with Red Hat since 2003 and is the author of The foundation for an Open Source City. He explores the five elements of an open source city using Raleigh, North Carolina as a case study. See how the open source characteristics of collaboration, transparency, and participation are shaping the open government and open data movements.
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