Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Open Thinking – a new site/community for anyone who is interested in open content, open source software, open publishing practices or open content formats – is now open. Here’s our current definition of open thinking: Open thinking is the tendency of an individual, group or institution to give preference to the adoption of open technologies [...]
As part of my M.Ed. project, I’ll be building a web site. Most sane people would do this using Dreamweaver or some similar product. I, however, am not one of those people – I prefer to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML and CSS files. I suppose if I wanted to be uber-geeky about [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
After a long and rejuvenating summer break, the EdTech Posse is back with some new podcasts. In our first podcast of the new season, Rick and I talk with brand new Posse deputy Heather Ross about open source in education. EdTech Posse 2.1 – Open Source in Education
Notice to Linux users In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction for Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006. I think this is the first acknowledgement by a government in Canada that Linux exists, let alone that people might actually be using to fill in census data. There are still a [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2005
I think the title says it all. Despite constant rumors, mostly FUD based, that open source software does not provide a lower total cost of ownership, many schools are finding out that this is not the case: Using Open Source software Noxon School District saved $92,675.20. Linux and Open Source software allowed this school district [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Its great to see that Alec Couros, the open source sheriff of the posse, is spreading the word – Couros Blog » Blog Archive » OpenOffice.org 2.0 Officially Released I expect there are going to be a flurry of downloads over the next little while. I would suggest you download openoffice.org 2.0 via bittorrent, then [...]
I’ve heard about this through a number of sources, including Alec, who views this as I do – a signal that North American institutes of higher learning may start adopting open source software as part of their learning infrastructure. Alec puts it aptly: Leading innovative institutions will continue to switch to open source software once [...]