Development by Davis: “5 questions with StudentsFirst's Michelle Rhee on education reform” plus 3 more

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• 5 questions with StudentsFirst's Michelle Rhee on education reform
• Community spotlight: 5 questions with John Scott, founder of MIL-OSS and Open Source for America
• AMD Radeon™ Breaks GHz Barrier
• Open education reconsidered

5 questions with StudentsFirst's Michelle Rhee on education reform Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST The name Michelle Rhee most likely rings a bell because of all the hard work she put towards reforming the Washington, DC public schools as chancellor from 2007 to 2010. During that time period, she hosted hundreds of community meetings, even creating a Youth Cabinet to bring students' voices into DC Public Schools reform. Read more... read more

Community spotlight: 5 questions with John Scott, founder of MIL-OSS and Open Source for America Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST Meet John Scott. He is a systems engineer in Alexandria, Virginia. Scott has worked extensively on open source software policy for the US government and military--and helped found MIL-OSS and Open Source for America. On opensource.com, community is very important. We want to continue to recognize our community members who contribute in ways other than writing articles--things like rating and commenting, voting in polls, and sharing our collective work on social media. We hope you enjoy getting to know John. Read more... read more

AMD Radeon™ Breaks GHz Barrier Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of its AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GHz Edition and HD 7750 graphics cards. The AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is the first graphics card equipped with a reference engine clock that breaks the one gigahertz barrier – making it the world's first 1GHz GPU. When coupled with AMD's...

Open education reconsidered Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST What a great article in Sunday's New York Times about East Mooresville Intermediate School. A bunch of quotes from the article that stood out to me. First, about the program's success: Read more... read more

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Development by Davis: “Five and a half couples who shared love and work the open source way” plus 1 more

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Five and a half couples who shared love and work the open source way Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:00 PM PST It's Valentine's Day, which is about love and relationships, and successful relationships are always based on the same principles that make open source projects successful--transparency, sharing, and generally working together for something better than either could have alone. Here are five couples who were not only partners in love, but in their work that also reflected the open source way. Read more... read more

Open Advice offers guidance for new open source contributors and the more experienced Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:34 AM PST A new book sharing the perspectives of 42 open source contributors launched this month at FOSDEM. Open Advice, edited by Lydia Pintscher, shares what those successful people wish they'd known when they got started with open source software. In the foreword, Georg Greve, founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, explains why such a book is important, even to those barely aware of free and open source software: Read more... read more

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