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Open source, digital textbooks coming to California schools
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| The cash-strapped Golden State has decided that, starting next school year,
| schools will be able to use open source, digital textbooks for a number of
| math and science subjects. Ars talked with Brian Bridges, the Director of the
| California Learning Resources Network, which will be reviewing the texts, to
| find out more about what the program entails.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/open-source-digital-textbooks-coming-to-california-schools.ars
Related:
Open Source Resolution Passed -- California
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| This is Great News and more evidence that the Open Voting idea is catching
| on.
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http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/ovcannouncement/20070715193532/
California city connects with open-source networking
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| Reliance on open source has been inexpensive and stable, says IT
| manager for Madera, Calif.
|
| [...]
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| In Madera's case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian
| GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate
| routers in the city's data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco
| routers that needed upgrading in order to accommodate additional traffic, he
| said he saved the city $16,000, spending about one-third of what he would
| have spent on the Cisco router upgrade.
|
| In a more dramatic money-saving move, the city did a complete network upgrade
| to implement a voice-over-IP system based on Asterisk, an open-source PBX
| system from Digium Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. The Asterisk VoIP system cost
| about $120,000, whereas a Cisco system would have run about $400,000, he
| said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9027911&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/32s83e
California to Start Review of Voting Machines
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| Vendors have time to submit their machines including documentation
| and source code until July 1st or face severe restrictions, including
| decertification, for the 2008 elections. Scheduled to start next week,
| the review will include a red-team attack and going through the
| source code.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/09/2140206&from=rss
E-voting vendor succumbs to California source code demands
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| "... there are serious concerns regarding the motivations and apparent
| personal agendas of a number of the currently proposed examiners," ES&S
| exec StevenPearson wrote in a letter agreeing to turn over the source
| code.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/28/evoting_source_code_disclosure/
Open Source: Marginal or Mainstream?
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| "Most IT shops are too busy finding solutions and pursuing them to tell you
| that they do it," he said. There are extensive mission-critical open source
| applications being used in the California state government, he added.
|
| [...]
|
| "Why get trapped for life into paying huge amounts of money for licensing
| which forbids you from being able to fix the broken code you have been sold,"
| wrote one state employee, "when there are free alternatives that are often
| more secure and offer more features?"
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http://www.govtech.com/pcio/128089
Connecting with the Do'ers...Here's Your Shot.
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| In the summer of 2000, I was reading lots of news about waves of viruses that
| would be coming up. Holden and I knew each other from discussing politics in
| the elevator during the 2000 election cycle, so I knew that he was a computer
| sys admin for a law firm in that building, and asked him what was the best
| anti-virus software.
|
| He said "Linux".
|
| After many conversations with Holden about the ups and downs of using Linux
| for my office, I decided that my fear of viruses was greater than my anxiety
| about an unknown operating system called Linux, and so I ordered a bunch of
| computer parts on the Internet which Holden proceeded to build into the first
| of several machines that he would build for me.
|
| [...]
|
| But we would need help making the lab work. We looked around together, and I
| found a guy by the name of Steve Hargadon who put in a commercial bid to
| build a Linux lab very reasonably. I mean VERY reasonably. In fact, the price
| was so low that it surprised the principal.
|
| That Linux lab ran for two years without a reboot.
|
| And we place an additional 12 GNU-Linux machines in other teachers'
| classrooms.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/06/connecting-with-doersheres-your-shot.html
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