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[News] Education and Government Are Going Open Source

  • Subject: [News] Education and Government Are Going Open Source
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:23:05 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open-source education may solve talent crunch

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| Following that talk, a number of the Pune BarCamp organizers offered to help, 
| so SkillsCamp was born in an effort to galvanize the Indian technology 
| community to create quality open source courseware helpful to people working 
| in the IT industry.   
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http://www.livemint.com/2007/08/28015042/Tuesday-Post-Opensource-educ.html

LectureShare Takes Open Source Approach to Education

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| The service joins the ranks of other open-source CMS and collaboration tools, 
| such as Moodle and Sakai. LectureShare is aiming to support universities and 
| high schools without the resources needed to maintain their own CMS.  
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http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21171

Open eGov, a US collaborative software initiative, joins PloneGov

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| Open eGov added its own set of "Plone Products" - this is what it is 
| licensing as Open Source (GPL). The City of Newport News also selected and 
| integrated about 20% of the available off the shelf add-on Plone Products and 
| other complimentary Open Source tools and utilities to create a scalable, 
| full function, redundant and highly available operating environment.    
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/open-egov094


Related:

Plone 3.0 released!

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| The culmination of over a year of hard work by the Plone Team, Plone 3.0 is 
| available for download for all platforms today. 
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http://plone.org/news/plone-3.0-released


3 open source e-Government projects merge and launch PloneGov.org

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| Open source experts from the public sector, community and SME's 
| participated in the first Plone e-government international workshop.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Attendants, equally representing the public sector, Plone community 
| and SME's, came from several countries : Belgium, France, 
| Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands and Luxemburg.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/6/8/21231

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