Recent posts

Thanks for posting this, Greg

08-July-2006

Thanks, Greg, for updating SIGOSSEE/JOIN readers about the new version of ATutor.

Welcome to the working group weblog!

06-December-2005

This is a new weblog which Dai and Raymond can use to post and discuss drafts.

Resource-Base - Standards, Architectures and Open Source in Education

14-November-2005

Al Harris is presenting a talk to the Conference on Open Source for Education in Europe, announcing the Standards and Architectures Working Group's resource base. This weblog post introduces the resource base, links to an online version of the presentation, and has a printable pdf version attached.

Congratulations, eXe team!

03-November-2005

Congratulations to the eXe team on producing this new release in such a timely way. We're looking forward to trying out the new features as part of our technology-tracking.

Full Preliminary Program : Conference on Open Source for education in Europe [pdf]

03-October-2005

Graham Attwell has sent along this pdf version of the Full Preliminary Program for the upcoming Conference on Open Source for Education in Europe, Research and Practice, to be held in Heerlan, NL, from November 14-15 2005.

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

15-September-2005

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.

13-September-2005

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.

SIGOSSEE Project Newsletter 5 - August 2005

24-August-2005

The SIGOSSEE Project's Newsletter 5 (August 2005) is available as a pdf download in this weblog post, and in plain html in this post's extended text. The periodic newsletter is intended to provide information and a digest of the activities of the Special Interest Group and of the SIGOSSEE and JOIN projects.

Slashdot | 56.2% of Software Developers use Open Source

18-July-2005

from SlashDot: While 38.1% said they used OSS modules in their applications in Spring of 2001, in the most recent survey, 56.2% said they had

backstage.bbc.co.uk :: BBC launches Open Source website

15-July-2005

Very important developments from the BBC : they have have just launched BBC OpenSource – the new repository for open source code released by the BBC

noted: Tim Bray on OASIS OpenDocument Standard

09-July-2005

Tim Bray notes the importance of this Open Standard for office application documents: OpenDocument from OASIS

noted: ongoing · OpenDocument! [ Tim Bray on OASIS OpenDocument Standard ]

09-July-2005

Tim Bray notes the importance of this Open Standard for office application documents: OpenDocument from the OASIS organisation

e-Literate: Now, That's What I'm Talkin' 'bout! [demonstration of the IMS Tool Interoperability]

07-July-2005

Opinion from the e-Literate edublog on the recent demonstration of IMS Tools interoperability between FOSS and proprietary systems.

Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference

07-July-2005

Open Education Conference 2005 ...Please join us September 28 - 30, 2005 on the Utah State University campus to discuss, share, and work together in this important area of educational and technological research

Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference

07-July-2005

Open Education Conference 2005 ...Please join us September 28 - 30, 2005 on the Utah State University campus to discuss, share, and work together in this important area of educational and technological research

NewsForge | OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and the preservation of Gaelic

06-July-2005

Good news about the Scots Gaelic localisation of Open Office. An interesting point is made in this NewsForge piece about the potential of open source to support cultural and linguistic diversity

noted: Swik - The free and open database of Open Source projects

02-July-2005

Swik is a project to create a useful free-content directory for open source software. Search for information about Open Source projects, or contribute to the database by adding, editing or tagging. RSS feeds are available for every project.

Developers Wiki - hCalendar

22-June-2005

This 'microformat' proposal is interesting as an example of leveraging small, loose standards, and is also of considerable interest to those of us who maintain web portals and project sites!

Ferl - MoodleMoot_05 Second Annual UK Conference

22-June-2005

Following the first Moodle Conference last year attended by representives from more than a dozen countries, MoodleMoot_05 are holding the second Annual UK Conference for Moodle Users, Administrators and Developers. The Conference will be taking place in Oxford on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 August 2005.

O'Reilly Radar > NextGen Macromedia Flash Tool "Zorn" to Run on Eclipse

21-June-2005

Very interesting news for educational content and software development. Macromedia has announced plans to join the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit industry organization committed to developing and promoting the open-source Eclipse universal development platform. Macromedia plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool based on Eclipse.