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Understanding Free and Open Source Software

5 January 2010

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There are many misconceptions floating around about free and open source software (foss). The purpose of this article is to address them and to better inform people. The first response I seem to get when I discuss ‘free software’ is, oh…

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MobilizeThis09

27 October 2009

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MobilizeThis09

Mobilize This09 being held on Friday the 30th of October, brings together those pursuing the active use of mobile technologies and associated digital literacy in their daily lives, teaching and work related duties. The event will be held at Charles Darwin…

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96% of public sector in France is using open source

12 October 2009

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Unixmen.com report that almost the entire public sector in France, 96 percent, is using open source, according to a  market survey. The most used applications are database management systems and content management systems. A research firm, Markness, presented a summary of its report…

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Jokaydia’s New Outpost

11 October 2009

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I am pleased to see that  the community of Jokaydia have embraced and developed a new outpost on Reaction Grid, which is run on the OpenSimulator platform. Jo Kay reports on her blog that the community of educators will be meeting up…

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Software is owned not licensed

7 October 2009

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The software company Autodesk has failed in its bid to prevent the second-hand sale of its software. In a long-running legal battle it has not been able to convince a court that its software is merely licensed and not sold.…

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Sign petition for open Internet in Europe

24 September 2009

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An interesting link from fsdaily, apologies for the blatant copy and paste, but I am tired… If you believe Europe merits an Internet that is free and open according to the following principles, please sign this petition and share it with your…

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Virtual Worlds Growing in Popularity

1 August 2009

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The virtual worlds consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Some of these memberships are likely to be unused or inactive but this is still a…

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Sculpture in SL using Blender

20 July 2009

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Chris has been experimenting with Blender again this weekend. He has produced some really nice modern sculptures. You can view the sculptures here in Second Life, or take a look at flickr. You can download Blender here.  Blender is a 3D graphics…

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