OSS Open Door days

12-March-2004

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The JOIN project has announced the dates of their first Open Door Days. Each of the five partners in JOIN are organising monthly meetings for anyone interested to obtain advice and help with Open Source Software for Education.

The first dates to be announced are for the events in Cologne. These will be on:


Friday 30th April 2004

Friday 28th May 2004

Friday 25th June 2004

Friday 30th July 2004

Friday 27th August 2004

Friday 24th September 2004

Friday 29th October 2004


The Open Door Days will be held at Room no. 10, Gottfried-Keller-str. 6, 50931 Cologne.

For more details contact Alexandra Toedt on alexandra.toedt@uni-koeln.de


Graham Attwell; 12-March-2004 13:57:07 forum (0)

Meeting with UK OS Watch

26-March-2004

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Last Monday Graham Attwell met with Randy Metcalf, director of the UK OS watch project. OS watch is sponsored by the UK Universities Joint Information Services Committee. It aims to provide balanced and impartical advice to universities and further education colleges on the use of Open Source software. It was agreed at the meeting that there were a considerable number of areas in which the two projects could usefully collaborate.

.Areas for joint work discussed included:

- RSS feeds of content between web sites

- sharing of taxonomies for the respective project software catalogues,

- the possibility of OSS Watch joining in on one of your tri-monthly meetings in either Ireland or Spain.

- the possibility of OSS Watch participating in the next JOIN conference in Köln.

- an invitation for SIGOSEE to participate in the next OSS Watch event directly related to educational open source software.


Graham Attwell; 26-March-2004 09:51:39 forum (1)

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A choice of logos - what do you think?

30-March-2004

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There are currently two logos contending for the prized place in the top left of ossite. Click more to see the options in context.

To see logo option 1 (coloured squares and padlock) in context, click here

To see logo option 2 (simple padlock) in context, click here

Click on the add-comment button to register your preference.


Anonymous Comment; 30-March-2004 19:48:43 forum (4)

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Plone Mini-Sprint, North Wales

28-March-2004

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A three-day programming retreat is planned for the end of May/early June near Bangor, North Wales.

The event will be a 'Mini-Sprint' for members of the Plone (Open-Source, Content Management Framework) community EduPlone, preceding the next SIGOSSEE meeting in Tralee.

It was decided to hold the meet as one of the first tasks of the Standards & Architecture Group at the SIGOSSEE kick-off in Bremen. The event will be held between May 31st and June 2nd in Llanberis, near Bangor, North Wales, at the Electric Mountain visitor centre.

So far, three core members of the EduPlone group have shown interest in the event: Jens Klein (sofar responsible for Learning Sequence implementation, EduPlone-Types), Daniel Nouri (responsible for core components for the typed object relation stuff, Bibliotheca Hertziana requirements), Georg Pleger (standardization, networking). Georg Pleger is a member of the Standards & Architectures Group.

Anyone else interested in attending should email me at kel@theknownet.com


Kel Harvey; 28-March-2004 16:43:25 forum (0)

New design and layout for ossite !

27-March-2004

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Regular visitors will notice that the layout and look of the site have changed. We hope you like the new appearance and layout.

We've just spent some work on making the site's layout, look and design more usable and attractive. Please let us know what you think! (Mike apologises for not finding the time to do this a looong time ago :O)

The 'opened padlock' logo candidate is currently occupying the top left corner. We're open to suggestions if anyone feels strongly about other logo ideas.


Mike Malloch; 27-March-2004 15:27:27 forum (0)

EuCluster meeting, Gremmelin, Germany

14-March-2004

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The first meeting of the Competence Development Group formed at the final meeting of the EUCluster project in Florence last year is meeting in Gremmelin, Germany, this week.

I will be attending the first meeting of the ComDev group in Gut Gremmelin, north-eastern Germany, this week (Wednesday - Friday), representing Knownet and the eCompete project. This meeting seeks to bring together several different European projects with similar aims in the field of competence development through e-learning in SME's in Europe. I will be leading a workshop on Open Source Software as a model for e-learning and aim to present the SIGOSSEE project and website during the meeting - anyone wishing to contribute anything toward this event should either post a topic to this sites forum or e-mail me direct at kel@theknownet.com


Mike Malloch; 14-March-2004 17:52:48 forum (0)