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An Open Source Tool for Every Task
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| For the last several years, Iâve organized
| sessions on open source software (OSS) at ed-
| tech conferences. But this year was markedly
| different, with an awareness of these tools
| among educators that Iâd never seenâa result,
| perhaps, of restrictive school budgets (there
| are no licensing fees with OSS). There may
| also be a growing understanding of the concept
| of open source, in which contributors, who do
| not expect compensation for their efforts,
| write software for which the actual
| programming code is âopenâ and freely
| available. Personally, I think that Wikipedia
| has made a big difference. While the online
| reference isnât software, but rather âopen
| content,â Wikipedia demonstrates the potential
| of volunteer contributors to create a serious
| project for the benefit of all.
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http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6708207.html?industryid=47078
DE: Open source professorship at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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| Germany's first open source professorship was
| established at the Friedrich-Alexander-
| UniversitÃt Erlangen-NÃrnberg.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/de-open-source-professorship-at-university-of-erlangen-nuremberg
Don't need groupware? Organize your life with Osmo
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| Everyone needs a way to organize both their
| work and personal life, but not everyone needs
| the same solution. For something fast and
| lightweight that covers all the basics,
| Vincent Danen recommends Osmo.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1100
Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?
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| Google representatives have already made it
| clear that they are hard at work enabling
| HTML-5 features in Google Apps and plan to
| significantly improve the richness and
| fidelity of their core Apps products within
| the next year. But we wonât need Chrome OS to
| access any of these new features. We just need
| to use a modern browser and be willing to
| trust in the cloud.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3395
Recent:
Back To School With Linux!
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| I just received my first back to school notice in my email box. It came from
| PCMagazine. They're touting "Back to School software." But they also
| feature a review of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.
|
| I looked it over and I'm not impressed. You can read the review here. If
| you currently run Windows XP, well, you'll want to know about "XP Mode."
| This is virtualization software that allows XP users to run XP legacy
| software in Windows 7. Problem is, it doesn't work very well.
|
| And other questions about Windows 7 are cropping up. John C. Dvorak's column
| details some of the backlash.
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http://www.oneclicklinux.com/2009/08/back-to-school-with-linux_07.html
Russia's Open Source Revolution
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| From what I have seen and experienced of ALT Linux, it appears to be a first
| class platform on which to build a strong, flexible network of Linux-driven
| computers.
|
| I shall be watching the Russian schools experiment, and ALT Linux in
| particular, very closely in the future. I suggest that if you have an
| interest in the future of Linux/Free Open Source software, you might like to
| as well.
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http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/10/russias-open-source-revolution.html
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