Development by Davis: Development by Davis: “The case for digital literacy and open source in classrooms” plus 2 more

jueves, 8 de noviembre de 2012

Development by Davis: “The case for digital literacy and open source in classrooms” plus 2 more

The case for digital literacy and open source in classrooms
France government is latest to fully embrace open source
Contribute to an open source project no matter your experience level

The case for digital literacy and open source in classrooms

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 02:00 AM PST

Municipalities across America should be working to bring open source educational tools to schoolchildren so they will have the necessary digital literacy skills to tap into their creativity and imagination, or even to provide them with valuable future life and workforce skills. And the case of the Feoffees of the Grammar School in Ipswich, Massachusetts—the oldest charitable trust in America—illustrates this point well.

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France government is latest to fully embrace open source

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 11:00 PM PST

France is the latest government to move from open source-friendly to open source-active, to paraphrase the European Commission's aspirational reference to Cloud Computing.

In late September, French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, signed a guideline (in French here and a rough translation here) urging the country's public administrations to not only make a thorough and systematic review of free alternatives when building and revising ICT infrastructure and applications, but also to use the savings realized by using OSS to develop expertise and engage upstream communities.

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Posted: 07 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Okay, that has nothing to do with the subject of this post, but when I tweeted out a request for suggestions for an opening line, that was the most interesting response (thank you, @kantrn). I got others that were a lot more helpful (thank you, @justinlilly)—that's the power of community, right?