Posts Tagged ‘source’

Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free

Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of online collaboration in generating content. Textbooks are now on the same route and here are a few interesting resources for those [...]

Open Source Alternatives to Web 2.0 Services On Your Local Server

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Open Source Social Network Engines

No-one is impressed with the words “social networking” anymore. We used to have to explain to new comers what “Myspace” or Facebook implied. Now everyone can have their own social networks online with relatively no cost using open source solutions that I think deserve some attention: 1- www.elgg.org -> free and open source initiative. Very [...]

Open Source Alternatives to Web 2.0 Services

What we see happening in school districts, educational institutions and companies all over the world is the urge to adopt technology to manage and deliver better learning experiences. As a result, these entities end up “investing” (sometimes) significant amounts of money without considering free alternatives offered by the open source community. The open source community [...]