The Opensource Report 07 November 2014

We cover the news in the Open Source Movement in software and hardware development for the good of the humanity.The people and ideas that make this Movement great.
Cubrimos las noticias en el Movimiento de Código Abierto en el desarrollo de software y hardware para el bien del pueblo humanity.The e ideas que hacen de este gran movimiento.

Pillbox is a web based program that allows you to visually identify unknown medications online. The process of building the tool has proven to Hale that when you bring together the expertise of the government and the needs of the public, you can create a better product than you expected.
Overviewhttps://github.com/HHS/pillbox_docs/wiki/Pillbox-API-documentation
All calls require an API key. Keys are available at http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/signup.html
We talked with David Hale project manager david.hale@mail.nih.gov
openFDA provides open APIs, raw data downloads, documentation and examples, and a developer community for an important collection of FDA public datasets. About openFDA https://github.com/FDA