Open Educational Resources have much in common with the Open Source movement in software development. Open Source collaboration resulted in higher quality software, which is more secure, performs better, it can be customized to a higher degree than commercial software. Many parallels exist between Open Educational Resources and Open Source. Higher quality of education may be the result of OER based on the pattern of the Open Source approach. This video is licensed by creativecommons.org The presentation slides are available at: prezi.com
Category Archives: Open Source
Piwik Open Source Web Analytics
Looks like a good way to get all the features of awstats in a different container.
Piwik is open source web analytics that you install on your own web server. It offers everything that you would expect from a professional analytics package, including real time visitor statistics, visitor logs, eCommerce
Fedora 17: Beefy Miracle release
Leading innovation: Freedom, friends, features, first… and franks. The mustard indicates progress in this Fedora release, which includes an abundance of the most cutting-edge features for open source developers with an interface that’s easy for non-developer desktop users. Fedora 17 moves innovation forward with the latest in languages and development tools. It includes automatic multi-seat support, multitouch support, a new clustering stack, cloud options, and much more.
TEDxPrincetonLibrary Salon: Chris Leyon on Open Source Technology
Chris Leyon talks about Linux and the Open Source movement in the world of software. Chris has worked as a professional programmer for over twenty years. He first started using free and open source software in the mid-1980’s and he is currently active with the Linux Users Group in Princeton.
Open Source Robotics
Speaker/Performer: Steve Cousins, President and CEO, Willow Garage Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society), UC Berkeley (Headquarters), Research Exchange seminar Abstract: Over the next 10 years, personal robots (as opposed to industrial robots) have the potential to improve people’s lives by taking automation to a new level. Like personal computers of 30 years ago, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex, multidisciplinary field, and fielding successful applications requires expertise ranging from hardware (mechanical and electrical) to social science. By working together on an open source software platform, we can accelerate progress in the field and more quickly field successful applications. Willow Garage has partnered with Stanford University and many other top robotics laboratories around the world to create such an open source code base. The robot operating system, ROS, is quickly becoming the de facto platform for robotics research. I will argue that most if not all robotics companies should join the ROS bandwagon, as a way to move the entire industry forward quickly.
Is there an open source alternative to Apple Xgrid?
Is there an open source alternative to Xgrid (windows or mac) that allows me to easily setup a grid of computers from local network and internet to run applications with?
Also for apple Xgrid can any application be distributed across the grid?
What's a good open source antivirus program?
My brother just bought a new computer two months ago and now he’s having a lot of trouble with it. He thinks that most of the issue is Norton Antivirus.
I’ve suggested to him that he either invest in one like what I run (Kaspersky) or that he search for quality open-source options. Since the latter is free, he would prefer that.
(I’m asking this question for him since he can’t access the internet.)
Anyway, what is a good open source antivirus program?
Are all applications for the open source Google Android OS free?
Since it is open source, one can get the code and compile it themselves to get the software, right?
Which is the best open source accounting software?
In your opinion, what is the best OPEN SOURCE accounting software and why?
Anybody know of any websites that have open-source java games?
I am trying to teach myself Java and I can’t seem to find any websites that have games that are open source. Ideally, I’d like to be able to play the games first, to see if it’s something I already know. Thanks.
hey thanks a lot warsql. Although i didn’t find any on there that i was interested in, you definitely helped!