Sweden talks Open Content

20-September-2005

[ Open-Content , Open-Standards , Public Policy ]
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.

The SIGOSSEE seminar in Sweden last week was brilliant.

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Entitled Content for education in Europe: processes, platforms and standards, the seminar was organised by Peter Becker form the Interactive Institute and held at the impressive water side headquarters of the Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions who sponsored the event.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss open content, platforms and standards for Education in order to formulate a set of focus points for a continued national and European development work.

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Graham Attwell; 20-September-2005 12:14:59 forum (0)

New! Our photos are now in the Flickr photo-sharing service

15-September-2005

[ Open-Content , Open-Standards , OSSITE Improvements , SIGOSSEE Project , SIGOSSEE Project/Meetings ]
We have started an account for SIGOSSEE in the Flickr photo and image sharing service. This post tells you where you can find the photos for SIGOSSEE an explains a bi more about services like Flickr and our future plansd for making more use of them.

I've decided it is time to start practicing what I preach. In the Report on Standards and Architectures I strongly advocated loosely-coupled architectures based on 'small / loose' standards. In the months since I wrote the first report Draft, the web had come a long way towards making it possible for all users to participate in 'small-loose' services. (There is even a new word gaining currency to describe this movement: "Web2.0").

Two vivid and immediate examples of the 'service-oriented', Web2.0, 'small-loose' way are photo-sharing via the Flickr service and shared bookmarking via services like del.icio.us (there are plenty of particular links into these below).

I don't have time to go into the benefits here, but I'll try to do some posting about it in the site soon. In the meantime, you can find some relevant materials collected in my own del.icio.us shared bookmarks, especially the tags 'resources/introductory' and 'web2.0/publicity'. For examples, see the 'Web2.0 tag' ...Though almost all my bookmarks are on this topic so you may want to open the bundles of tags there and explore ( especially by looking at the other users' bookmarks revealed through the 'and NNN others' links shown beside bookmarks collected by more than one user).

Step 1 for our own ossite was to make a Flickr account to handle the photos for meetings, etc. I made an account this morning, and have also made a new flickr group for pooling together sigossee-re;ated images from multiple members (that way you can post to sigossee's photos through your own flickr account if you have one). I've put up all the photos from our own meetings and organised them a bit by 'set' and tag.

Some links:

You can also see examples taken randomly from our photos on Flickr in the little widget in this post, and in the 'SIGOSSEE Photos' portlet now at the bottom-left of all the pages in the main site.

I'll be posting soon about plans to bring service-oriented shared bookmark collection into the site ( complementing or replacing our current 'blogit' resource-collection ).


Mike Malloch; 15-September-2005 09:37:11 forum (0)

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Pictures of the SIGOSSEE Meeting in Arhus June 5-7 2005

13-September-2005

[ SIGOSSEE Project/Meetings ]
Sara has pointed out that some of us may not have realised that she's placed a large number of wonderful photos of the Arhus meeting in the activities area. You can find links to the photos in this post.

Apologies to all if I hadn't flagged these wondferful photos of the Arhus meeting earlier...

...maybe you stumbled already onto the pictures of the last meeting we had in Arhus on the OSsite? Or you missed them being published altogether? Either way, you can find them here:

Sara on: Photos, SIGOSSEE Meeting Arhus, thumbnail view

You can also view the photos in single-photo view. A screenshot of the thumbnail view is shown below.

By the way, the project really ought to get a Flickr account - or agree a set of SIGOSSEE-PROJECT tags for our own flickr uplaods - it would make this sort of thing easier :o) If someone nags me enough, I'll write up an explanation which puts the case for doing it the Flickr way and distribute that to everyone.


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