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fOSSa Conference 2009 (Free/Open Source Software Academia Conference)
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| The history of FOSS can be traced back to
| academic origins: distributing source code
| under a permissive license was the de facto
| rule in academia in the 70's. Since then,
| FOSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout
| the software industry, and its alignment with
| academic goals tended to be forgotten.
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http://www.reponses.net/blog/2009/10/12/563-fossa-conference-2009-free-open-source-software-academia-conference
Recent:
Open Source Education: Professorsâ Open Source Camp in Singapore
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| Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE),
| a training bootcamp targeted for faculty members of
| technical universities in Asia is being organized
| from November 9-13, 2009 at Nanyang Polytechnic in
| Singapore. Faculty members from Singapore,
| Malaysia, China, India are expected to participate.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/475
OSS push in VT Schools and Local Gov
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| If we read this right it means there is real local government
| preference for Open Source. Now right now theyâre going into
| because of costs instead of control, but I think a taste of
| freedom tends to stick around once youâve deployed a FOSS
| solution and itâll be more difficult for Microsoft or even
| IBM, Novell etc to get back in without offering serious
| concessions.
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| I also like that they are informing people that students can
| take advantage of OpenOffice, because itâs free too and
| supports all the same formats. Thatâs very good news as itâs
| an aspect of Free Software in schools which is often
| overlooked (that what is taught can be taken home without
| pressuring poor students to buy expensive software).
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http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/oss-push-in-vt-schools-and-local-gov/
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