Open Source Design and Making
I always seem to find out about these events after they've occured. but I'll be watching for the next one.
There seems to be more and more open-source materials for the 3D world rather than "just" software.
Citizenship
OpenEducationDisc
By Admin - Posted on February 17th, 2010
http://www.theopendisc.com/education/
The OpenEducationDisc is a compendium of software produced with students from KS1-5 in mind. Now published on a DVD, there is something here for everyone. 600 were produced for the BETT show and went like hot-cakes.
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Engaging Young People in Technology
Session style:
Discussion A Presentation with lots of scope for Open Discussion.
Hosted by Digital Freedom in Education and Youth, a group of technologically adept young people, this session will cover getting technically adept young people into the real world technology industry, how schools can help technologically adept young people develop their skills, how free software can help young people and what Digital Freedom in Education and Youth is all about.
Networked Theatre - open source enabling creative learning
Session style:
Presentation C&T is an eclectic company of drama professionals, technologists, teachers, web designers, animators and writers working with partner schools all over England to bring new, creative learning practice to students and teachers through a blend of drama, applied learning and digital technology.
Open Source in the Public Sector
Date:
22/04/2009 
[Revised to reflect programme changes, 31/3/09]
At Inmarsat, London.
From the event organizers:
"The country is in an economic crisis: Alistair Darling has demanded public sector bodies must make an extra £5bn efficiency savings in ICT and back office systems by 2011. Never has there been a more compelling argument for public sector organisations to look at open source software as an alternative to traditional proprietary software.
Public sector bodies need to be more dynamic and flexible, keeping an eye on new ways of working and, most importantly in the current financial crisis, of saving much needed and depleted funding. Open source isn't always free, although a lot is, but licensing terms are much less restrictive than with proprietary software meaning licensing costs are much lower.
This conference will give delegates the opportunity to hear examples of where open source has been implemented, what the benefits have been, how the business case was made, and give vendors the chance to make valuable contacts and face to face discussions about potential moves to open source packages.
Open Tech 2009
Date:
04/07/2009 London, UKUUG
Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and community.
OpenEducationDisc
The OpenEducationDisc is currently undergoing development for its next version. We have a strong line up of software focused on the national curriculum and beyond. We are looking to add a few programs mentioned previously on opensourceschools such as Numpty Physics and Scratch. if you would like to suggest any other software that you think teachers and students in Key Stage 1-5 would find useful please drop a reply to this thread.
Open Source CMS for Social Networking Workshop
Date:
30/04/2009 The Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) will be holding a one day workshop on Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) for Social Networking from 1030 on Thursday 30th April 2009 at the BCS Central London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
Papers and posters for presentation are being sought along with a call for those just wishing to attend and participate. It is envisaged that the workshop will compare some of the leading Open Source CMS such as Drupal, Joomla, and Plone for social networking purposes.
George Osborne MP on Open Source
Fascinating set of talks from an RSA event on 'the social impact of the web: society, government and the internet', including one from George Osborne, MP, shadow chancellor, in which he discusses open source principles and software quite extensively, and mentions his party's vision of seeing Britain as the open source leader in Europe.
His talk is about 15 minutes in to the audio at www.thersa.org/__data/assets/file/0018/1809/lecture080307a.mp3
Creative Commons
Creative Commons offer a range of licenses for the publication of works (anything – not just software, so particularly relevant to learning resources, for example). Similar to the idea of copyright, Creative Commons offers creative control away from the extremes. At one pole is total control, such as “all rights reserved”. At the other pole it is permissible to do anything with content.
