Category Archives: open source

Fast Facts Found Online

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today. There is a small quote from myself on the use of Wikipedia for research. David Adams talks to four Australians who have helped to build the collaborative online giant that is Wikipedia. NEXT time you’re sitting at the computer – it may even be as you’re [...]

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OSS Watch – open source software advisory service

Based at Oxford University, OSS Watch advices UK higher ed on the use of open source software (link) OSS Watch promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and open source software. It does this by providing unbiased advice and guidance to UK [...]

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What is the Shuttleworth Foundation?

This foundation based in South Africa is doing some very interesting work with Open Source software. ‘If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world’ (link)

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What is Open Source Flash?

OSFlash is a watering hole for open source Flash developers and users to meet, talk about and contribute to new and existing open source projects for the Flash Platform.OSFlash supports the development community by providing open source projects with free source code hosting and project management tools as well as a web presence on the [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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