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Webinars - the new virtual classroom?Yesterday I participated in my very first webinar. Webinars are a type of web conference where one person (possibly with a small team of helpers) is presenting on a topic to a large but self-selecting group (registration is usually involved in order to participate in a webinar). The presenter usually is running a slideshow of some kind with verbal commentary. The participants may patiently and ...
Documentation: not just another pretty faceI have always thought that documentation was a vital component of any FOSS project. But recently the value of documentation was illuminated for me in a new way. This has me rethinking the basis of the importance of documentation for a FOSS project at nearly any stage of development.Let me describe the case that prompts this reflection. A long-term (2 to 3 year) user of an enterprise software ...
Software Freedom Day - 20 September 2008Is your library "connected"? I mean connected to FOSS community outside your doors? Do you know who is working with FOSS in your local community? Do you have regular contact with them, perhaps through your friendly local Linux User Group (LUG)? And if not, how do you get your library involved with your local FOSS community? I want to combine two really useful suggestions that came my ...
The Code4Lib Journal - essential readingAs readers of this blog will know, I am not a professional librarian, and I am also not, by training, a programmer. Fortunately for me, around the time I started working closely with librarians and (even more scary?) software developers for libraries The Code4Lib Journal was launched. Its mission is to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, ...
OLPC: open source, open access, open library - University of WindsorRecently I had the good fortune to be invited along for a special evening celebrating, publicising, and enthusing about the One Laptop Per Child project organized by Mita Williams of The Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. I had been asked to speak on the significance of free software and to inform those assembled about the eIFL-FOSS program. A perfect opportunity for me to enthuse ...
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