Category: Open Source

I am not able to do conference blogging. I am a slow thinker and a slow writer. However, I highly appreciate when people are documenting and making public notes from conferences in their blogs. Flosse Posse Fellow, Riina is reporting the EMINENT – European Schoolnet annual networking conference almost in real time in the conference’s […]

Creative Commons, Free Software Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation are working on to make the FSF’s GFDL and CC’s CC-By-SA compatible. This will mean that in future all the Wikimedia content (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, etc.), that are licensed under GFLD can be remixed with content using CC-By-SA. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board made a resolution about […]

A group of people have released The Cape Town Open Education Declaration. The hope is that this Declaration will server as rallying point for the development of open educational resources similar way as the Budapest Open Access Initiative did for open access to research literature. I see the Declaration, first of all, as a statement […]

I made today a very short online tour to some of the education portals provided by the Finnish municipalities. I didn’t check them all. Actually there are more than 400 municipalities in Finland, running thousands of schools and educational institutions with hundreds of thousands of teachers and students. I didn’t look for school web sites, […]

You all must have seen in the top of the Wikipedia pages the red link saying: “donate now”, and the tag line “You can help Wikipedia change the world!” As a critical person you are probably thinking: “hmm… these people are not too humble” or “do they seriously think that they are changing the world?” […]

Last week I was giving a talk in the SOMECE’s (Sociedad Mexicana de Computación en la Educación) annual conference in Mexico. The short trip was worth of doing: many interesting projects and many clever and good people. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to go around in there. Must go back. There was not much time […]

We were today looking for some statistics of the members and learning resource in the LeMill.net. It looks that LeMill is growing smoothly. I think we are still far from a “critical mass” that will make LeMill “self-sustainable”. Still, the future looks promising. | View | Upload your own In LeMill.net we now have 1022 […]

This is an invitation to join in an online chat about mobile technology in conservation and development effort. If you are working in the field of environment, development, education and/or mobile technology, please add the time in your calendar and remember to join us. The online chat will take place on October 12th – 13:00-15:00 […]

We are proud to announce the release of LeMill 2.0. In this case 2.0 means the actual version number, though it is rather “web 2.0”, too. 🙂 Have a look of an earlier post to get and idea of the latest development with LeMill. You may also try it out yourself in the LeMill.net service […]

Victor Papanek (1927-1999) is my hero. We made an online tool for an idea generation method, which Papanek calls “paper computer”. Paper computers are described in Papanek’s famous book Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Originally published in1969). Shortly, the Papanek’s paper computer is an association (actually bi-association) method, a tool […]