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The mission of the Open Font Library (http://openfontlibrary.org) is to promote your freedom as it relates to fonts. All of the typefaces contained in the library are available under a free license, which gives you the freedom to use, study, remix and share each and every font. The site is powered by the Aiki Framework (http://aikiframework.org), a powerful web framework for building network services using the AGPL license.

Over the past decade we have witnessed a burst of new technological achievements.

The English version of Wikipedia, the biggest web encyclopedia with free content, changed look and feel today.

The new skin, called Vector, provides simplified navigation and enhanced functionalities. The tabs at the top of each page are now better defined and the search box is more prominent and positioned on the top right. Formatting pages is now easier, a cheat-sheet is even presented to help new editors. The new layout also provides an easy-to-use tool for the creation and editing of links.

Contributors and editors will now able to add video content to Wikipedia articles and media repository. A related website called "Let's Get Video on Wikipedia" has been launched by a group of organization which are working on open video formats, including Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, Miro and Kaltura, the video partner for Wikimedia.

The Open Clip Art Library team announced the publishing of a new release of Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org). The site which reached version 2.0 contains more than 26,000 original and remixed high quality scalable vector graphic (SVG) files that have been produced by over 1,200 creative artists.

The Free Software Foundation started a campaign against teh Apple's new tablet device, iPad, and its use of Digital Restriction Management. The foundation published this announcement on their website:

The Open Fantasia Project is an open community of people who work together to create visual music - music combined with cutting-edge animation. The artistic universe first visited in Walt Disney’s 1940 movie Fantasia is still largely unexplored. Fantasia still stands as the unrivaled pinnacle of visual music, and its sister film, Fantasia 2000 (released 60 years later) is one of very few worthy successors. Open Fantasia aims to produce music videos of equal or greater quality, leveraging the power of an open community and free development to expand on Walt's dream.

morgueFile, the quintessential free images archive, has unveiled a new site design with new features to serve the emerging needs of the creative community for years to come. Finding images and using them is more seamless on the new site.

UK giant pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced it will rely on Open Source strategies to improve drug research and to help the development of vaccines for Malaria and other diseases in the third world countries.

GSK revealed details of 13500 chemical compounds from its scientific database and will establish a research 'open lab'.

(CC-BY Ian Wilson)

The Aberystwyth University located in Aberystwyth, Wales provides a Bachelor of Science degree in "Open Source Computing" within its Computer Science Department. The Aberystwyth's Department of Computer Science is ranked first in Wales and came number 17 in the United Kingdom.