GoblinX Platinum is a bootable live CD based on Slackware, released this week by the Brazilian development team. As free software spreads throughout Latin America, we can expect to see more contributions from there, which should accelerate adoption on the continent. GoblinX is intended to be a next generation bootable desktop. You can see the release announcement here.

Open source methodologies can be applied to other things besides software. A recent article describes how these methods are creeping into the journalism establishment. More and more newspapers and magazines are incorporating community-created articles and media into their news products. And Reuters is now partially funding a community journalism experiment, NewAssignment.Net which describes itself as “open-source reporting.”