Re: Open Source is alive and well in Alaska

Right on!
On 3/1/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
>
> These past few days I was at http://www.aste.org/ . I setup a Linux lab
> similar to the one I had at the IT Expo back in October.
>
> There were some great ideas and examples of how technology can be used
> in education. However, it has been my experience that most educators
> don't do anything exciting. Even after listening to presenters talk
> about exiting things one can do in education they don't do anything
> exciting.
>
> What was encouraging were the number of people that had not only herd of
> open source software but were actually using it. The interesting thing
> is that most of these open source applications are web based.
>
> 1. http://moodle.org/
> 1. Lots of people were using this
> 2. There is a moodle boot camp in the sumer. I'll find out who
> does it and when.
> 2. http://wordpress.org/ - there was a presentation on this
> 3. Other on line tools for organizing data/information
>
> I also learned about a few open source tools I didn't know about.
>
> 1. http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/
> 2. http://www.vtiger.com/
> 3. http://typo3.com/
>
> I plan on installing vtiger. I'm not sure if I will use it but I would
> like to play with it.
>
> There was one teacher that walked by our booth and in an off hand
> comment said she had recently moved to Alaska and didn't understand why
> the school district she was working for didn't have Linux. The school
> she came from had a Linux lab.
>
> Open source is taking over the world. If you are not part of it now you
> will get left behind. I'm not saying this to make fun of those not using
> open source software. I'm saying this as a warning. If you don't know
> about open source you will get left behind.
>
> Be safe, secure and productive. Get open source software.
>
> Oh, I had about 10 people show up for my presentation. I talked about
> building stable networks with open source software.
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