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Mathieu Plourde

Lego calendar by Vitamins - 0 views

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    "The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner that we invented for our studio. It's made entirely of Lego, but if you take a photo of it with a smartphone all of the events and timings will be magically synchronised to an online, digital calendar. It makes the most of the tangibility of physical objects, and the ubiquity of digital platforms, and it's also puts a smile on our faces when we use it!"
Mathieu Plourde

Material Design Icons - 0 views

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    "Google Design are open-sourcing 750 glyphs as part of the Material Design system icons pack. The system icons contain icons commonly used across different apps, such as icons used for media playback, communication, content editing, connectivity, and so on. They're equally useful when building for the web, Android or iOS."
Mathieu Plourde

Xerte elearning toolkit - 0 views

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    "This site is developed by and for the international community of Xerte toolkit users working at every stage of education. Xerte toolkits is a free, open source content creation tool. Every tutor and every learner in your organisation can create interactive content with rich media and high accessibility. Xerte toolkits integrate well with online videos and many other web-based tools. Learning objects created with Xerte can be easily shared and repurposed or exported for off-line use."
Mathieu Plourde

Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' - 0 views

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    "t's quite a change for Microsoft, so long the bete noir of the open source community. But as Russinovich explains, it's a necessary change. And given how popular Linux has become, Microsoft could go even further, not only allowing open source software on its cloud services, but actually turning Windows into open source software. "Every conversation you can imagine about what should we do with our software-open versus not-open versus services-has happened," he says."
Mathieu Plourde

Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty - 1 views

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    "The GNU Manifesto is characteristic of its author-deceptively simple, lucid, explicitly left-leaning, and entirely uncompromising. He explains the point of the project in short, declarative sentences: "[A] user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him. Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in [the] sole position to make changes."
Mathieu Plourde

The Changing Cost of Open Source - 0 views

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    At one time higher ed wanted community-built software because of the $0 price tag; now many universities are paying somebody else to keep open source projects moving forward.
Mathieu Plourde

Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Lea... - 0 views

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    "Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university's pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative, as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Officials estimate that developing the software has cost more than $100 million in foundation grants and university dollars. The goal of the software giveaway is to jump-start "learning engineering," the practice of applying findings from learning science to college classrooms."
Mathieu Plourde

mammoth - 0 views

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    "Mammoth is designed to convert .docx documents, such as those created by Microsoft Word, and convert them to HTML. Mammoth aims to produce simple and clean HTML by using semantic information in the document, and ignoring other details. For instance, Mammoth converts any paragraph with the style Heading 1 to h1 elements, rather than attempting to exactly copy the styling (font, text size, colour, etc.) of the heading."
Mathieu Plourde

Twine - 0 views

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    "Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories."
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