More and more libraries are discovering the usefulness of hobbyist 3D printers and are deploying them for public use alongside open source applications like Blender, FreeCAD, and OpenSCAD. More at OpenSource.com
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The price of textbooks in the US has risen at exceptionally high rates for decades. Open education resources are attempting to provide educational materials to students and educators at much more affordable prices through principles of reuse, redistribution, revision, and remixing. More at OpenSource.com
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There are many ways FOSS can be used as a teaching tool in universities. Participating in the development of an open source project can introduce students to a wide-variety of important skills. The association for Computing Machinery included a day dedicated teaching open source practices, tools, and techniques in their annual Special Interest Group in […]
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The Physical Computing course at the State University of New York is teaching hardware and software design to students through hands-on work with open source devices like Arduino and the Printerbot. Students are engaged through a process of design, prototyping, and development to participate in events like robotic Olympics. -More at opensource.com
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The Open Source Solution to Privacy
In this part of the series, I want to explore the various open source solutions that have risen recently. The transparency of open source software offers a unique solution to the issues of protecting the privacy of citizens by allowing anyone to check the integrity of the code used to generate applications. This is only […]
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In this article, Michel Bauwens outlines 10 areas where government can encourage open source development and the commons. Education Research Purchasing Patents Data Collaboration Commons Health Economy Systemic Change More from P2P Foundation
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The tech industry has had problems with gender diversity for some time, and the gap between men and women involvement in open source has been even worse. OpenHatch started in 2009 as an effort to recruit open source contributors from a variety of backgrounds on college campuses. Efforts like this seek to expand the diversity […]
