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| 29 Sep 06 | Clinton promotes ubuntu - He was talking about ubuntu as a human philosophy, of course, not the operating system.
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| 28 Sep 06 | Virtual school 'beats real thing' - BBC News article about First College, a virtual private school for 10-17 year-olds.
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| 28 Sep 06 | British Council on “Creative Commons Thinking” - The British Council and Counterpoint have a new publication, “Unbounded Freedom: A Guide to Creative Commons Thinking for Cultural Organizations”. It's written by Rosemary Bechler and publicly available as a PDF file.
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| 26 Sep 06 | OLPC offered Global Satellite Bandwidth - SES Global, one of the world's largest satellite corporations, has offered to develop a base station and to provide satellite bandwith for the MIT's One Laptop Per Child project.
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| 26 Sep 06 | British Library launches IP manifesto - Groklaw explains why this is an important step for maintaining openness in the digital age.
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| 19 Sep 06 | CERN Re-invents Publishing - Again - A radical proposal to re-invent scientific publishing in the field of high-energy particle physics.
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| 19 Sep 06 | TinyZIS 0.1 is available now! - Tom Hoffman's TinyZIS Zone Integration Server v0.1 is released so school MIS developers can start integrating diverse applications using the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF).
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| 14 Sep 06 | You’re Not My E-Type - No, not that E-type! University College London has published a study of geospatial distribution of electronic literacy across UK.
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| 14 Sep 06 | OASIS launches opendocument.xml.org - A community-driven site with a growing number of resources relating to the OpenDocument Format standard (ISO/IEC 26300).
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| 7 Sep 06 | Oxfordshire chooses Linux for safe web access for 282 schools - Local web caching to improve response times on the schools’ Internet.
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| 5 Sep 06 | Welsh schools adopt open source email - Another success story from Sirius Corporation
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| 2 Sep 06 | UK school saves thousands with open source network - Hopefully we'll have more details soon at Kings College School, Cambridge.
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| 29 Aug 06 | Orca is now the default Ubuntu screen reader - Henrick Nilson Omma, the head of the Ubuntu Accessibility team announced the change for the upcoming Edgy Eft release.
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| 29 Aug 06 | Web site for TinyZIS project - Tom Hoffman announces a new home for the TinyZIS project: open source glue for linking disparate School Admin systems
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| 28 Aug 06 | Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond - No, it's August Bank Holiday, not April 1st!
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| 26 Aug 06 | Kerala logs Microsoft out - In contast to the preceding news item, by 2008 all 12,500 schools in the state of Kerala, India will be teaching with FLOSS. Apparently a visit by RMS tipped the balance, perhaps we should invite Becta to meet him?
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| 26 Aug 06 | Becta, the Welsh Assembly Government and OSS - a missed opportunity? - A Welsh view on Becta's recent anointment of just 16 large Windows-based managed services suppliers.
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| 21 Aug 06 | Sakai Foundation fight Blackboard's attempt to restrict free sharing and innovation in online learning - more on this possibly invalid patent attempt at UK Open Source Media Watch and ZDNet.
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| 18 Aug 06 | RealNetworks brings Windows Media to Linux - Real won the right to incorporate Windows media formats into its software, i.e. Helix.
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| 16 Aug 06 | New York School Districts Select Linux Desktops - Designed to bring 1:1 student/computer access into the classroom. Will the idea catch on over here?
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| 4 Aug 06 | OSS Watch Survey into HE/FE attitudes and policies towards open source software - and comparison to the 2003 survey results. '56% of FEs use Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment'.
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| 1 Aug 06 | Digital learning - could open source hold the key? - opionion from Elena Blanco at OSS Watch
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| 1 Aug 06 | Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops - the Linux powered 'One Laptop Per Child' PC.
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| 31 Jul 06 | OpenAcademic project launched - a combined Moodle, Drupal, Elgg, MediaWiki system with single sign on using OpenID. Miles Berry whetted our appitite for the power of this project in his presentation at FLOSSIE.
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| 31 Jul 06 | Interview with Simon Phipps on Open Sourcing Java and other Sun products - Simon refutes the idea that Sun are not fully committed to opening the Java platform.
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| 31 Jul 06 | Going the Extremadura Mile - All government computers in the Spanish region of Extremadura will be running free software within a year.
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| 30 Jul 06 | FLOSSIE 2006 in the blogsphere - Miles Berry posts his impressions of Thursday and Friday.
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| 28 Jul 06 | The Zen of Open Source (PDF) - Transcript of Simon Phipps' talk at the Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon.
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| 28 Jul 06 | Open source at the National Education Computing Conference - FLOSS made a big showing at the NECC in San Diego.
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| 27 Jul 06 | The open source approach to education - The Education Guardian discusses two Futurelab reports on social software and open source approaches to education.
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| 21 Jul 06 | Another successful FLOSSIE - Please add further reports of the individual presentations and conversations
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| 21 Jul 06 | Free and Open Source Software at the United Nations - How UN agencies use FLOSS to put technology at the service of people around the world.
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| 17 Jul 06 | The World's First Open Source Man - Thanks to a far-sighted agreement known as the Bermuda Principles, the digital code that lies at the heart of life is freely available. Now, for the first time, the complete genome of a single person will be placed in the public databases for anyone to download and to use.
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| 12 Jul 06 | Microsoft hit with 280m euro fine by EU - This is the BBC report, and Groklaw also provides a transcript of the Q&A session that followed the announcement.
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| 12 Jul 06 | IBM Donates E-Learning Software Code and Expertise to Sakai - Sakai is an open-source course management, collaboration and online research tool for higher education, involving more than 90 universities and colleges around the world.
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| 11 Jul 06 | Update on Indiana schools FLOSS deployment - Actually it's Tom Hoffman's report on the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in USA so there's lots more besides.
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| 7 Jul 06 | Microsoft sponsoring Open Source ODF project - it's initially limited to Word 2007 and converts betweeen ODF and MS's rival Open XML format. See the ODF Add-in for Word 2007 project on sourceforge.net and MS Office formats project manager Brian Jones' blog post.
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| 5 Jul 06 | BECTA snuffs National Grid for Learning - Notwithstanding 120,000 hits/month.
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| 24 Jun 06 | Belgian government chooses OpenDocument - From September 2008 onwards, Belgium's federal services must use ODF although other formats will still be allowed.
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| 23 Jun 06 | Students Build Linux-based Sentry Robot - File this under "FLOSS stimulates innovation"!
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| 22 Jun 06 | Simon Phipps to speak at BCS Open Source Specialist Group, Chilworth, 22nd June - 'Why Open Source is not a passing fad', Simon is Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems and gave an excellent keynote at last at our FLOSSIE 2005.
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| 21 Jun 06 | UKUUG 2006 Linux Technical Conference, Brighton, 29 June - 2nd July 2006 - a great way to broaden your knowledge and keep up-to-date with what's happening in the world of Linux. Stuart Yeates from OSS Watch will talking on "The State of Open Source in Higher and Further Education".
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| 20 Jun 06 | BBC Open Schools Archive - a library of open resource video andaudio clips that can be freely re-purposed. Uses the BBC's Creative Archive Licence which is similar to the creativecommons.org licences.
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| 19 Jun 06 | Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy - a look at how one open project deals with conflict.
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| 15 Jun 06 | Open Source SIF Sputters Back to Life - This project has huge potential for linking MIS information between schools, LAs and government - see Management Information and Administration Systems
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| 15 Jun 06 | Futurelabs formalise their Open Access policy - note that although they call it 'Creative Commons license' it does not appear to be a creativecommons.org license.
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| 12 Jun 06 | More concerns about Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage validation tool 'phoning home' without clear user consent - Groklaw report on a dubious practice.
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| 9 Jun 06 | More bad press for FAST - More concern about the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) dubious methods of propaganda; now to be taught in a school. With Open Source software theft is a non-issue as it is freely sharable.
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| 7 Jun 06 | Lessons in Linux - The latest issue of Linux Format has an in-depth feature on Linux growth in schools and universities (not available online yet).
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| 5 Jun 06 | Linux Forums review of Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' - has a focus on Desktop user features (server features described). The Release Notes reveal all. Edubuntu is the education targetted variant.
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| 3 Jun 06 | Denmark mandates open standards by 2008 - Now that's Leadership!
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| 31 May 06 | Guardian report on Local government case studies in using FLOSS - and a summary from the UK Open Source Media Watch.
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| 26 May 06 | Now, let's bury the myth - Nicholas Carr questions the "myth" of Wikipedia openness, but omits to consider why 10 volunteers are worth more than 100 pressed men.
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| 26 May 06 | FAST should be taught a lesson - Further comment in this ZDNet leading article
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| 25 May 06 | First pictures of working $100 laptops - Still some scepticism about this project
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| 24 May 06 | Schools face software licensing clampdown - Far more effective marketing than the FLOSS community could ever do on our own!
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| 22 May 06 | Open source for absolute beginners from the OSS Watch team - and see our Try FLOSS Now.
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| 16 May 06 | Furturlab report, Using Wikis in schools: a case study - uses a hosted non FOSS wiki, but there are many FOSS examples including MediaWiki used for this site.
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| 15 May 06 | New features for Firefox 2 Alpha 2 - (you may need to scroll down as there is no permalink provided)
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| 15 May 06 | Nokia 770 internet tablet to feature GoggleTalk VoIP - new feature for the Linux powered Wifi connected device.
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| 10 May 06 | BBC World to air program on FOSS and Development - See article for schedule.
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| 10 May 06 | BECTa offical position on demise of the Inclusion Unit - "Some reorganisation has been planned and is being implemented to align the organisation to its objectives".
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| 10 May 06 | Summary of the OpenDocument Format Accessibility issue appears in ComputerWorld.
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| 06 May 06 | Open Source software goes mainstream - A new report by IDC states that open source will become "business as usual" in two to three years and service vendors must develop Open Source capabilities in order to meet clients' needs.
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| 05 May 06 | SEN Good News OATS Accessibility project launched - A community project that helps users and developers work together to develop Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS). It features a browsable repository of software and a developers forge. Steve Lee blogged it.
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| 05 May 06 | SEN Bad News BECTa Scraps SEN Team - If Chris Stevens' Inclusion team is scrapped who will provide cooridinated SEN ICT advice to QCA, NCSL, DfES, LEAs and others? Senit are running a protest campaign.
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| 04 May 06 | Plugin alows ODF to be used transparently with MS Office - Groklaw reports on the OpenDocument Foundation's announcement to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Critically this provides a way for users of MS Office Assistive Technology tools to work with ODF documents. (Embrace and Extend?)
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| 03 May 06 | Open Document Format Gets ISO Approval - ODF is now a formality away from being ISO standard 26300.
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| 02 May 06 | LEGO Mindstorms NXT goes Open Source - a last it's offical, so now you can add the features you want. Perhaps we will see a new LEGO 'mod' culture?
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| 01 May 06 | BBC report that sustainability and digital divide are becoming a 'problem' for schools - FLOSS provides workable answers to these problems. Find out more on this site, our maillist and at our coming FLOSSIE conference.
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| 25 Apr 06 | Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web - a booklet on using Web 2.0 in education edited Terry Freedman, also on MilesBerry's blog post. Much Web 2.0 software and the collaborative ideas are from FLOSS.
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| 24 Apr 06 | OSSWatch "Open Source and Sustainability 2006" summary and presentations - including talks by our chairman Richard Rothwell on "Migrating to Open Source Servers on smaller networks" and the "Karoshi" school network system. Niall Sclater of the Open University explains why they selected Moodle. Andrew Savory gives an entertaining introduction to FOSS migration strategies.
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| 24 Apr 06 | Linux distributors unite on standard for desktop software - Linux Standards Base 3.1 will be the first version to include a standard for desktop distributions.
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| 24 Apr 06 | Becta report - Emerging Technologies for Learning - doesn't specifically cover open resources but much of the emerging social technologies discussed by Leon Cych and Bill Sharpe are created by Open Standards and FLOSS such as RSS, Moodle, EduPress and Elgg. Also see our paper on Effective eLearning through Collaboration.
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| 23 Apr 06 | Futurelab report - The potential of open source approaches for education - (and pdf format), this eagerly awaited report by Seb Bacon and Teresa Dillon is positioned to 'open up' education and stimulate debate . A review on Miles Berry's blog.
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| 23 Apr 06 | In-depth review of ajaxWrite - It also provides an introduction to some of the issues of using "hosted" web applications (or "Web as Platform" or "Application Service Providors" (ASP) or "Software-as-a-service" (SaaS) or perhaps "Service Oriented Architecture" (SOA) at a stretch). There's more on this subject on this slashdot thread. Note that ajaxWrite is NOT FOSS but does use the FOSS Firefox technology on the users machine.
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| 14 Apr 06 | Introducing ajaxXLS viewer - Hot on the heels of ajaxWrite and ajaxSketch, the first step towards a full, editable, web based ajaxXLS.
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| 13 Apr 06 | Linux + Windows on the desktop - Nicholas Carr urges: "If you can't beat 'em, virtualize 'em".
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| 6 Apr 06 | Guardian and Becta summary of ICT in schools - pulls together six surveys carried out over the past two years on keys areas of ICT in schools.
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| 5 Apr 06 | Minnesota bill requires use of Open Standards - After Massachusetts, a second US state seeks to mandate open standards for executive branches.
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| 5 Apr 06 | Bradford Council Builds Schools for the Future with Sun Microsystems - Eee by gum, tha's grand!
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| 4 Apr 06 | The state of Web 2.0 - where all this Open Source software and attitude is taking us.
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| 4 Apr 06 | Bristol opts for openness - details of Bristol City Council's recent decision to standardise on Star Office with an expected saving of 60% after a fairly easy migration.
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