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Exploration Ubuntu
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| So, tommorrow, May 24, 2008 the Ubuntu Massachusetts team will be holding our
| first quarterly Exploration Ubuntu at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge from
| 10am to 5pm. If you’re new to Ubuntu, come check it out! Already an Ubuntu
| guru? Come help out, hang out, and present something neat to new users!
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http://gamemank.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/exploration-ubuntu/
Be sure to read the new story below. See what Microsoft does to Linux awareness
in academia. Disgusting.
Yesterday:
Then, they fight you
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| That was two days ago but yesterday we were notified that the Microsoft
| representative in charge with the education strategy had requested the
| organizers to pull the Ubuntu presentation because it is 'unfair competition'
| to hold such a presentation at an event sponsored by them. They are indeed
| co-sponsors but the conference is organized by the Ministry of Education and
| its local office, and is being held on the premises of a public University.
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http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html
Recent:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Offering Android Development Classes
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| It appears that the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be
| offering a class this term that revolves around cell phone software
| development. Google Android based phones, in particular.
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http://androideum.blogspot.com/2008/01/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.html
Google Summer of Code 2008 Takes 1,125 Developers
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| or Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008, Google is paying for 1,125 student
| developers, which is an increase from the 900 students the program took in
| 2007. Those students will work with 175 Free and Open Source Projects as
| mentors to help improve and expand their development.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-summer-of-code-2008-tak.html
MIT researchers fight gridlock with Linux
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| At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers are testing a
| Linux-based automotive telematics system intended to reduce traffic
| congestion.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8559536444.html
Following Removal of DRM, MIT Resubscribes to SAE Database
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| IT faculty, students, and staff have access to the Society of Automotive
| Engineer’s technical papers over the web again, because the SAE listened to
| MIT and other universities when they spoke out against the imposition of
| Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.
|
| Last spring, the MIT Libraries cancelled their web access to the (SAE)
| technical papers, because the society was imposing a DRM plug-in called
| FileOpen that seriously impeded normal scholarly use.
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http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/following-removal/1024/
Related:
Software Assurance Storm Warning
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| In a report to be published today, Forrester Research sees a series of
| customer hurricanes coming Microsoft's way. If they strike, they could wash
| away many Software Assurance contracts. Software Assurance is the discounted
| upgrade option available with Open, Open Value and Select volume licensing
| contracts.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/software_assurance_storm_warning.html
HP, MIT bolster DSpace open-source archives
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| Open-source advocates claim that the Microsoft-championed format is not as
| open as it should be and doesn't compare well to rival formats such as the
| community-developed OpenDocument Format (ODF).
|
| "If it were, Microsoft wouldn't need to make Novell and Xandros and Linspire
| sign NDAs (nondisclosure agreements) and then write translators for them,"
| Pamela Jones, an open-source expert and editor of the Groklaw blog, wrote
| recently.
|
| But the National Archives said that it is not wedded to any particular data
| format and that all technology options are being considered at this time.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9592_22-6197345.html
MIT Rejects SAE's DRM Policy, Prompts Review
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| Following opposition by MIT, the Society of Automotive Engineers
| halted implementation of digital rights management controls aimed
| at restricting access to SAE documents.
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N26/drm.html
OpenCourseWare: Open Source at MIT
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| The Chinese translations come from Chinese Open Resources for
| Education (CORE), a consortium of China's top universities that
| has translated 110 MIT courses into Simplified Chinese, and
| Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS), a volunteer
| organization that has translated 25 courses into Traditional Chinese.
| OCW materials have been translated into other languages as well,
| including French, German, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Users
| can create their own translations provided they meet the permissions
| criteria of the Creative Commons license.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54319.html
MiT Say no thanks to Windows Vista
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| Tech staffers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are
| warning professors and administrators at the school -- host to
| one of the country's most prestigious computer science
| departments -- not to upgrade desktops or laptops to Microsoft's
| new Windows Vista operating system...
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http://www.ivirtuaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=8581
MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM; SAE Digital Library Canceled
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| SAE's DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and
| imposes unnecessary burdens on readers. With this technology,
| users must download a DRM plugin, Adobe?s "FileOpen," in order
| to read SAE papers. This plugin limits use to on-screen viewing
| and making a single printed copy, and does not work on Linux
| or Unix platforms.
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http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/category/subject-areas/engineering/
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