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EDUCAUSE Live! welcomes MIT’s M. S. Vijay Kumar, the editor of Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Published by the MIT Press and the Carnegie Foundation, the book is a collection of 30 essays written by leaders in the open education movement.

Read more Send to Friend 61 reads EDUCAUSE Involvement Opportunity: New Openness Constituent Group Created by Colleen Luckett (EDUCAUSE) on October 09, 2008 EDUCAUSE has launched the new Openness Constituent Group, which focuses on the emergence and adoption of open technologies, practices, policies, and initiatives, and how they affect the delivery and support of education.

EDUCAUSE President Diana Oblinger and Marilyn Lombardi, Director, Duke University’s Renaissance Computing Institute Center, contributed a chapter, "Common Knowledge: Openness in Higher Education," to a new book published by The MIT Press.

How can an average Indian afford a $200 Windows XP operating system? The answer is, he cannot. The solution is piracy. Did I get that wrong? Maybe. But, that is what is happening to the operating system market in India (worldwide too). The answer would have been Open Source or Linux, but for that Linux thing is so damn difficult to install and run.

For software developers, Linux provides a platform that lets them change the operating system as they like and get a wide range of help creating the applications they need. One of the watchdogs of the open source movement is the Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org).

SGI Relicenses OpenGL: "A Huge Gift to the Free Software Communi... Linux Today Fri, 09/19/2008 - 14:02 Linux.com: "After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running

After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative.

In March I posted an entry on a significant enhancement in the computing realm, the thin client. That post focused on how thin client computing is changing the net assessment in computer security... [This is a summary- visit site for more!]

In the world of technology, we complain about having to deal with “viruses” and “infected systems” all of the time. And, as such, we have any number of tools at our disposal for tracking, managing, and eliminating these viruses.

One of the coolest things I get to do at MindTouch is learning about our customers. We have some of the most amazing clients who are using Deki to manage and share ideas; seamlessly communicate no matter the distance, update their network, the list goes on.