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Roland Gesthuizen

Google Code-in 2011 - Home page - 4 views

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    This is Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. It runs from November 21, 2011 to January 16, 2012. We invite students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year. These tasks include:
Roland Gesthuizen

Support Web Standards on International Blue Beanie Day - 0 views

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    Web standards are sustained by conversation, and Blue Beanie Day is a chance to start some.
Roland Gesthuizen

The Learning Registry - 2 views

  • the Learning Registry is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources,
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    The Learning Registry is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing learning resource data to broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and learners. Not a website or repository… not a search engine… and not a replacement for the excellent sources of online learning content that already exist…
Ian Guest

PRISM Break - 0 views

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    "Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora. Stop governments from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services."
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    via @dajbelshaw
Ian Guest

OpenDyslexic - 6 views

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    "OpenDyslexic is a new open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The typeface includes regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users. There are no restrictions on using OpenDyslexic outside of attribution. "
Ian Guest

OpenRocket - 3 views

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    "OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them."
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    via @rmbyrne
Clay Leben

WordPress 3 Site Blueprints Book & eBook - 1 views

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    Each chapter carefully explains how to use WP to setup a specific functional site, i.e. real estate listings, subscriber site, classified ad site and so. Detailed descriptions of plugins for each type of site. Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store. Ebook is about $27.
Clay Leben

Wagn: a Wiki, Database, and CMS - 3 views

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    Create a web site using WAGN, a type of wiki. Free open source.
anonymous

www.eduapps.org - 4 views

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    EduApps is an initiative developed by the JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East and consists of seven useful software collections that are free for you to download and use.
Clay Leben

openmeetings -open source web conference - 6 views

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    Open source conference software. Use with Moodle or Facebook to hold online meetings.
Roland Gesthuizen

With Open Source Bug Bounties, 12-Year Olds Can Win Too - 0 views

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    Commercial companies focused on open source and open source communities at large can benefit from lots of efficiencies that arise from paying the public to debug software. In the latest example of the fact that "the public" in this context means absolutely anyone, 12-year old tech whiz Alex Miller, who hails from San Jose, right in the middle of Silicon Valley, has just received a $3,000 check from Mozilla for finding a major bug in the Firefox browser.
Tony Richards

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: SOAP on a Rope - 0 views

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    Kathy Schrock
Darrel Branson

Open Source Open World - 4 views

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    "Open source is a concept of free sharing of technical information that has been around for much longer than most of us would imagine. When we think of open source today, we usually think of software. As wonderful and widely used as open source software is, according to Linus Torvalds, "the future is open source everything." "
Darrel Branson

Goodbye Becta - and Good Riddance - Community - ComputerworldUK - 2 views

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    ... " the news that Becta would be shut down was nonetheless further evidence of the coalition government's new broom whooshing into action. Although there seems to be a wide range of views on whether this is a good or bad thing - see this post and its comments for a representative selection - for me Becta was pretty much an unmitigated disaster for free software in this country, and I'm glad to see it go."
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