The Open Source Café (L20) is partnership between the Becta supported Open Source Schools community and Open Forum Europe, a not-for-profit organization that has long advocated open standards and open source for business and the public sector throughout Europe. The Café is also supported by University of London Computer Centre, Red Hat, The Learning Machine (Ingots) and www.linuxit.com/.
Leon Cych of Learn 4 Life is streaming many of the sessions on the Café stand, and we hope to make an archive of these available in due course. Details of the current streams are available by following Leon's twitter feed. Voxpops from presenters are on our You Tube channel.
Other open source interest at BETT includes:
- Sirius Corporation (Becta and OGC approved software suppliers, stand Q50)
- North West Learning Grid (RBC, and leaders of NDRB and OSCA, stand G50)
- Synergy Learning (Moodle Partners, stand N2)
- Edugeek (online technician and network manager community, stand G89)
- Visual Software will be showcasing a Moodle SIF agent, making integration of Moodle with other systems much easier (stand B20)
- The Elgg powered Learning Landscape 4 Schools will be on E2BN's stand, J56.
- Mimio (C76) have a Ubuntu computer running the drvier for their device which transforms any board into an IWB.
- Web filtering and firewall solution SmoothWall (G85) is built on open source components, and has an open source version available from smoothwall.org
- Futurelab (J11) have an example of work they've been doing on student-authored constuction: "using open source electronics [arduino] to construct intelligent objects so children gain a deeper insight into the workings of digital technology"
If past form and the wiki are anything to go by, there'll also be a number of open source presentations at TeachMeet Bett 2010.