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Makers: Free your hardware with OHANDA

The Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance (OHANDA) aims to do for hardware what the Creative Commons does for intellectual property and the GPL does for software: open it up. By applying open source principles to trademarks, OHANDA hopes to free devices from some restrictions imposed by patent law and foster “sustainable sharing of open [...]

Open Source: Richard Stallman, guest lecture at the FTA

Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement, will give a video Guest Lecture and answer your questions in the FTA Campus between 11th and 18th April. In his lecture, Richard Stallman dives into current attacks on the freedoms of software users, such as DRM, software patents and ACTA. Previous knowledge is required: please [...]

Call for papers: International Conference on Open Source Systems, Brazil

Call for papers: International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2011, 5-8 October 2011, Salvador, Brazil. Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged theconventional wisdom of the software engineering and [...]

Free Technology Academy: Last chance to register for the first term of 2011!

Registrations for the 2011 programme are growing at a very good pace. Remember that you can register for any course of the programme until one week before the term starts. This means that you have time until January 3rd to register for these courses: The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards. Basic GNU/Linux. Free [...]

The Open Source Software Africa Summit

The Open Source Software Africa Summit is scheduled for the 27 – 28 January 2011 at the Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg. In conjunction with the summit, a commercial exhibition showcase over 50 open source information and technology vendors and featured specialized open source demonstrations are expected, please note that only 50 exhibition stands are available. Summit [...]

Open source software for research administration

I try not to use this site to promote particular products or services, but occasionally something that is likely to be of genuine interest to readers comes up – hence my previous posting on the Canadian launch of the iPad. In a similar vein, the development of the Kuali consortium and its goal of developing [...]

IDLE: A new open source Learning Management System

With the rapid development of Internet technologies, the conventional computer-assisted learning is more and more moving toward a web-based learning. How to assist learners in creating self-regulated learning abilities efficiently is an important issue. IDLE is a free, open source interactive learning environment developed for academic use. It supports arbitrary interaction within distributed learning communities [...]