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From Mark Shuttleworths blog
If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I’m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity… pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty.
Make sure you read the rest of his blog. If you don’t know who Mark Shuttleworth is then visit Wikipedia …
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Edubuntu News:
Weve just installed these two donated computers in a community nursury and breakfast/after schol club in Lincolnshire, England. The machines are 600mhz/128mb/4.2gig and they took about 3/4’s of an hour to install and configure perfectly, and have cost the centre nothing!

The kids absolutely love them, most are from underpriviledged backgrounds and many of them have never used a computer before. As a result they will …
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Social web in support of informal learning
They’ve figured out how we learn and want to work.

Download 060705-Teemu_Arina-Social_Web_in_Support_of_Informal_Learning.mp3 (MP3 audio 16362Kb)

[audio:http://lemill.net/content/social-web-in-support-of-informal-learning/at_download/audio]

View the images that go with the talk.

Knowing Knowledge
Visit the Knowing Knowledge Homepage.
How we market, how we …
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Steve Hargadon inverviewed Richard Stallman on Free Software in education.

Download the interview in Vorbis OGG format.
Download the interview in Vorbis MP3 format.

[audio:http://educationbridges.net/k12opensource/wp-content/uploads/rms.mp3]

Here’s some useful links.
Order a copy of Ubuntu. Watch Ubuntu Videos. Free Software for windows users.

Initial source was digg.com

Linux Spreads Its Wings In India

With 4,000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn’t appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology. Yet the 71-year-old school is abandoning Microsoft Windows software in favor of its free, open-source rival, Linux.

That doesn’t sound like a big deal but here’s more from …
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This morning I went to the edna Collaborative Tools Workshop, the venue was a room at QUT Library Gardens Point Campus. I went to the workshop last year that was run by Kerrie Smith and it was nice to see with her again. To be honest the main reason I went was to see her again. Just like last time there was …
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Check out Tux Paint Videos.

Bill Kendrick added the Tuxpaint screencast to the list. I’ve demonstrated Tux Paint for quite a few parents and all of them have been really impressed. I also want to screencast software from tux4kids, GCompris and Squeak. If you know anyone with kids looking for free software please spread …
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LibriVox
Librivox is a digital library of free public domain audio books, read by volunteers. The project started in August 2005, and as of July 2006 has a catalog of about one hundred full length, unabridged books, and numerous shorter works. LibriVox recordings are primarily in English, however other languages are also available, including German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Finnish, Latin and Old English.
LibriVox Homepage.

At the secondary school I’ve been pushing fairly hard to introduce libre software, libre content and libre learning resources, today I distributed a couple of copies of Elephants Dream, it looks like it will be added to the library system for loan. I ended up installing mplayer/mencoder for windows to create a VCD/SVCD/DVD video. Here the contents of the batch file, you can also …
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I modified the tango theme for media wiki and tidied up the Superuser Wiki. Check it out, I really like how it looks but it still needs a bit of work. Here’s the banner.

I was tinkering with my Blogger blog for some ACE 2.0 teachers and …
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