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Open-Source Textbooks a Mixed Bag in California
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| As California moves forward with the first open-source digital textbook
| program in the nation this fall, the best content seems a lot less like
| Wikipedia and a lot more like traditional publishing.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=open-source-textbooks-mixed-bag-california
Gov. Schwarzenegger Releases Free Digital Textbook Initiative Phase 1 Report
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| Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today released the first report of
| Californiaâs free digital textbook initiative - which outlines how high
| school math and science textbooks submitted under the first phase of the
| initiative measure up against the stateâs rigorous academic content
| standards. Of the 16 free digital textbooks for high school math and science
| reviewed, ten meet at least 90 percent of Californiaâs standards. Four meet
| 100 percent of standards, including the CK-12 Foundationâs CK-12 Single
| Variable Calculus, CK-12 Trigonometry, CK-12 Chemistry and Dr. H. Jerome
| Keislerâs Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach.
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http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/12996/
As textbook costs stack up, interest grows in e-books
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| âWhen Pluto becomes not a planet, you can fix it very quickly,â said Rich
| Baraniuk, an engineering professor at Rice University who pioneered the field
| of open source class materials. âIt's going to take a decade to get Pluto out
| of all the nation's printed science books.â
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6574256.html
Recent:
Sony to adopt open source format for ebooks
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| Sony Electronics is to change the format of the ebooks it sells so that they
| will work on devices other than its own Sony Reader.
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http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/926949/Sony-adopt-open-source-format-ebooks/
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. Â Â
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| 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. Â Â
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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. Â
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| "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?" Â
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http://www.govtech.com/pcio/128089
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