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Sweden talks Open Content

20-September-2005

Last week I was in Sweden for a seminar organised by the Special interest Group on Open Source Software in Education in Europe. This is a short report of the meeting.

Sweden talks Open Content

20-September-2005

Last week I was in Sweden for a seminar organised by the Special interest Group on Open Source Software in Education in Europe. This is a short report of the meeting.

World Meeting of Free Software in Dijon (July 5-8)

20-June-2005

Labour party to tighten copyright laws?

10-May-2005

<p style="font-family:Verdana;"> I have a horrible fear this means the UK government is going to try to revive the long contested EU copyright proposal during their EU presidency. </p>

The Empire Strikes Back

10-May-2005

<p> Microsoft is ready to fight competitors entering the IT education market, it said on Monday, after a leaked government report highlighted the benefits of open source software for schools. </p>

Open Source mainstreams in education in the UK

10-May-2005

<p> The findings could undermine Microsoft’s hold on the education market, but they raise the prospect of millions of pounds of savings for British schools and colleges which spend around £1 billion a year on ICT. </p>

Open Admin for schools

07-May-2005

<p> Open Admin for Schools is a freely available web based school administration program </p>

New editor for Learning Design

06-May-2005

Conference/Workshop: Legal Aspects of Online Learning Environments

06-May-2005

Open source is better - official

27-April-2005

<p> Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, is set to release a new report which will say that schools could save significant sums by switching to open source software, eGov monitor can report. </p><p> The landmark report will show that OSS can be implemented successfully in schools and present documented examples of cost savings from its use. </p>

Wide Open - Open source methods and their future potential

24-April-2005

Mission | Ourmedia

15-April-2005

<p> The Ourmedia project was started by members of the creative and technology communities in the summer of 2004. Our major partners in this effort are the prestigious Internet Archive, Bryght, Creative Commons and Broadband Mechanics. All share with us a vision that compelling grassroots works — now scattered across the Web or hidden away on laptops and closed networks — deserve a wider audience. </p>

Does major development of FLOSSE start from Brazil? - FLOSSE Posse

15-April-2005

<p> In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from proprietary Microsoft operating systems to free operating systems, like Linux. Government funded software projects need to release results as FLOSS. </p>

Open Forum Europe - Open Skills Initiative

06-April-2005

<p> "OpenForum Europe introduces a new OSS skills initiative "The OSCoP Competency Framework" a definition of the skills needed by IT Professionals to excel within the open source environment". </p>

incorporated subversion » Un-Managing Learning Management Systems - A possible future for online learning

03-April-2005

<p> Two things - first lets not get overhung up on the technology - the point is that the use of blogs does potentially add a little subversion in the system - but what we are really looking for is to free or subvert the whole system of e-learning and we need to extend the idea of blogging (in terms of individual expression and creativity) - across the whole ed-tech range of applications. </p>

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles - Robin Good's Latest News

03-April-2005

<p> Been desperately looking for free pictures lately to try to brighten up the usual dull project reports. And when aimlessly surfing my RSS feeds - diversion tactic from getting down to work - stumbled on this brilliant listing of free photos. </p>

Home | Holland Open Software Conference 2005

31-March-2005

The First International Conference on Open Source Systems - OSS 2005 - Main

30-March-2005

<p> <a href="http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/">The First International Conference on Open Source Systems - OSS 2005</a> <br />The First International Conference on Open Source Systems </p><p> Genova, Italy, July 11 - 15, 2005 </p>

GUADEC 2005, 28th-31th May - Stuttgart, Germany

25-March-2005

Guardian Unlimited | Online | John Naughton: It's absurd to let the bureaucrats take over

15-March-2005

<p> At stake is a simple but overarching question: who runs Europe: the elected European Parliament or the unelected European Commission? This may seem a rather grand question for a technology column, but bear with me. </p>