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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Libraries are a wonderful place to engage patrons through use of open source tools. Bringing the community together for classes, talks, and collaborative events can help people learn and grow while promoting open source. More at OpenSource.com
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The Open Knowledge festival was started as an effort to improve collective sharing, learning, and making, and to bring positive change to society by improving access to knowledge and tools. This group seeks to improve accessibility to music, films, books, government information, and scientific, historical, and geographical data. The festival is being held in Berlin, […]
