User: jpmcc Date: 2010-01-19 12:00:39+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Tue Jan 19 13:00:12 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2840&r2=1.2841 Delta lines: +45 -11 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-19 06:00:28+0000 1.2840 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-19 12:00:35+0000 1.2841 @@ -5,10 +5,44 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-19T06:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-19T12:00:33+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">BETT 2010 Review</title> + <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2104</id> + <updated>2010-01-19T09:57:41+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.bettshow.com/"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bett2010.gif" alt="" title="BETT 2010" width="213" height="140" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2123" /></a>It&#8217;s that time of year when around 30,000 educationalists from all over the world descend on Olympia in London for the annual edu-geek-out that is <a href="http://www.bettshow.com/">BETT</a>.</p> +<p>I&#8217;ve been going to BETT now for 3 or 4 years as an exhibitor or just helping to promote Open Source and Free Software with other like minded members of our amazing community.</p> +<p>This year we helped our friends and colleagues at <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/">Open Source Schools</a> and <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">Open Forum Europe</a> on the Open Source Café. The simple objective of the show was to inform the education sector about Open Source and where to find help, advice and common ground with peers who&#8217;ve &#8220;been there&#8221; and &#8220;done that&#8221; already.</p> +<p>This year was, frankly, quite exceptional.</p> +<p>The stand received financial sponsorship from <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</a>, <a href="http://www.linuxit.com/">Linux IT</a>, <a href="http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/">University of London Computing Centre</a> and <a href="http://theingots.org/">The Learning<br /> +Machine (Ingots)</a> for which everyone is very grateful. <a href="http://www.canonical.com/">Canonical</a>, the commercial entity behind <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> very kindly provided us with 600 <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu">Ubuntu</a> 9.10 CDs (500 Desktop and 100 Server) to give away (thanks Larry) and there were a similar number of CDs containing a great collection of Education-centric Open Source desktop applications for Windows from <a href="http://www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk/">Free Software for Students</a> that was compiled and produced by Peter Kemp and David Wilmut. That&#8217;s around 1200 CDs in total full of completely Free goodness and fun. We encouraged all the recipients to copy, share and pass them on too! At the end of the show we had only a few (quite literally) of each remaining. </p> +<p>An interesting sum was carried out: The value of equivalent proprietary software was estimated to be over £4000 for the pair of CDs &#8211; I actually think that is rather low considering the volume of stuff in the Ubuntu repos including several real Enterprise grade applications such as <a href="http://www.openerp.com/">OpenERP</a> and <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a> &#8211; <strong>so we have potentially delivered a net saving to the education sector of at least £2.5m. And of course this does not include all the free copies that will be made and passed around!</strong></p> +<p><div id="attachment_2129" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand.jpg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand-300x225.jpg" alt="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" title="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2129" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010</p></div>I noticed a real sea-change between this show and last year&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t actually recall speaking to one school or Local Authority this show that had no-idea of, or that wasn&#8217;t aware that they were using, Open Source Software. Most were really proud of their achievements, many were rolling out or had completed roll outs of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> rather than waste many thousands of pounds on unnecessary &#038; proprietary Office Application Suite Licenses. Many more used and raved about <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> &#8211; the ubiquitous audio capture and editing tool. No one I spoke with was reticent toward Open Source and many were keen to talk and share their experiences. This is what the <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/">Open Source Schools</a> project is all about: using the principles of FOSS; of community, collaboration and sharing, and providing a location for this to happen. If you are involved in education and have any interest in Open Source, or even better are an expert, <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/user/register">get involved</a> and share your experience and knowledge gained.</p> +<p>We also found time to meet up with friends and colleagues from <a href="http://www.siriusit.co.uk/">Sirius</a>, Mark Taylor and John Spencer. Sirius has been very successful in the education sector, they are the only Open Source vendor to be on Becta&#8217;s &#8220;approved supplier list&#8221;, and were nominated for an award this year for the work they and <a href="http://www.nwlg.org/">North West Learning Grid</a> others put in to the <a href="http://demo.ndrb.org.uk/visualizadorcontenidos/AcercaDeAgrega/AcercaDeAgrega.do">National Digital Resource Bank</a>.</p> +<blockquote><p>The national digital resource bank will deliver a vast range of publicly funded resources under a creative commons licence and populate your learning platforms, preparing them for effective use.</p> +<p>It will also create a sharing community of educators who will identify, review and improve a common set of national digital assets. </p></blockquote> +<p>The world is really changing very fast. I go to parties and find people in all walks of life (i.e. not IT professionals) who are aware of Open Source, Governments are (some faster than others admittedly) waking up to the reality that FOSS provides significant benefits over proprietary software in many ways more than just money, and Enterprises are adopting not just Open Source Software but the principles behind it too to make their own businesses better. </p> +<p>BETT 2010 confirmed this trend in spades. Roll on BETT 2011.</p> +<p><em>Miles from Open Source Schools and one of the organisers of the event has also posted a review of the show that you can <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/successful-bett.html">read here</a>.</em></p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=BETT+2010+Review&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&t=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/facebook.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?t=BETT+2010+Review&c=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/myspace.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/twitter.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content> + <author> + <name>Alan Lord</name> + <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> + <updated>2010-01-19T12:00:33+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Microsoft Embracing Openness?</title> <link href="http://linuxmagazines.com/microsoft-embracing-openness/"/> <id>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20164894</id> @@ -111,7 +145,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - 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The simple objective of the show was to inform the education sector about Open Source and where to find help, advice and common ground with peers who’ve “been there” and “done that” already.</p> +<p>This year was, frankly, quite exceptional.</p> +<p>The stand received financial sponsorship from <a href="http://www.redhat.com/";>Red Hat</a>, <a href="http://www.linuxit.com/";>Linux IT</a>, <a href="http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/";>University of London Computing Centre</a> and <a href="http://theingots.org/";>The Learning<br /> +Machine (Ingots)</a> for which everyone is very grateful. <a href="http://www.canonical.com/";>Canonical</a>, the commercial entity behind <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/";>Ubuntu</a> very kindly provided us with 600 <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu";>Ubuntu</a> 9.10 CDs (500 Desktop and 100 Server) to give away (thanks Larry) and there were a similar number of CDs containing a great collection of Education-centric Open Source desktop applications for Windows from <a href="http://www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk/";>Free Software for Students</a> that was compiled and produced by Peter Kemp and David Wilmut. That’s around 1200 CDs in total full of completely Free goodness and fun. We encouraged all the recipients to copy, share and pass them on too! At the end of the show we had only a few (quite literally) of each remaining. </p> +<p>An interesting sum was carried out: The value of equivalent proprietary software was estimated to be over £4000 for the pair of CDs – I actually think that is rather low considering the volume of stuff in the Ubuntu repos including several real Enterprise grade applications such as <a href="http://www.openerp.com/";>OpenERP</a> and <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/";>Alfresco</a> – <strong>so we have potentially delivered a net saving to the education sector of at least £2.5m. And of course this does not include all the free copies that will be made and passed around!</strong></p> +<p><div id="attachment_2129" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand.jpg";><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand-300x225.jpg"; alt="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" title="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2129" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010</p></div>I noticed a real sea-change between this show and last year’s. I don’t actually recall speaking to one school or Local Authority this show that had no-idea of, or that wasn’t aware that they were using, Open Source Software. Most were really proud of their achievements, many were rolling out or had completed roll outs of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a> rather than waste many thousands of pounds on unnecessary & proprietary Office Application Suite Licenses. Many more used and raved about <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/";>Audacity</a> – the ubiquitous audio capture and editing tool. No one I spoke with was reticent toward Open Source and many were keen to talk and share their experiences. This is what the <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/";>Open Source Schools</a> project is all about: using the principles of FOSS; of community, collaboration and sharing, and providing a location for this to happen. If you are involved in education and have any interest in Open Source, or even better are an expert, <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/user/register";>get involved</a> and share your experience and knowledge gained.</p> +<p>We also found time to meet up with friends and colleagues from <a href="http://www.siriusit.co.uk/";>Sirius</a>, Mark Taylor and John Spencer. Sirius has been very successful in the education sector, they are the only Open Source vendor to be on Becta’s “approved supplier list”, and were nominated for an award this year for the work they and <a href="http://www.nwlg.org/";>North West Learning Grid</a> others put in to the <a href="http://demo.ndrb.org.uk/visualizadorcontenidos/AcercaDeAgrega/AcercaDeAgrega.do";>National Digital Resource Bank</a>.</p> +<blockquote><p>The national digital resource bank will deliver a vast range of publicly funded resources under a creative commons licence and populate your learning platforms, preparing them for effective use.</p> +<p>It will also create a sharing community of educators who will identify, review and improve a common set of national digital assets. </p></blockquote> +<p>The world is really changing very fast. I go to parties and find people in all walks of life (i.e. not IT professionals) who are aware of Open Source, Governments are (some faster than others admittedly) waking up to the reality that FOSS provides significant benefits over proprietary software in many ways more than just money, and Enterprises are adopting not just Open Source Software but the principles behind it too to make their own businesses better. </p> +<p>BETT 2010 confirmed this trend in spades. Roll on BETT 2011.</p> +<p><em>Miles from Open Source Schools and one of the organisers of the event has also posted a review of the show that you can <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/successful-bett.html";>read here</a>.</em></p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review"; title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review"; title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png"; 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The simple objective of the show was to inform the education sector about Open Source and where to find help, advice and common ground with peers who&#8217;ve &#8220;been there&#8221; and &#8220;done that&#8221; already.</p> +<p>This year was, frankly, quite exceptional.</p> +<p>The stand received financial sponsorship from <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</a>, <a href="http://www.linuxit.com/">Linux IT</a>, <a href="http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/">University of London Computing Centre</a> and <a href="http://theingots.org/">The Learning<br /> +Machine (Ingots)</a> for which everyone is very grateful. <a href="http://www.canonical.com/">Canonical</a>, the commercial entity behind <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> very kindly provided us with 600 <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu">Ubuntu</a> 9.10 CDs (500 Desktop and 100 Server) to give away (thanks Larry) and there were a similar number of CDs containing a great collection of Education-centric Open Source desktop applications for Windows from <a href="http://www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk/">Free Software for Students</a> that was compiled and produced by Peter Kemp and David Wilmut. That&#8217;s around 1200 CDs in total full of completely Free goodness and fun. We encouraged all the recipients to copy, share and pass them on too! At the end of the show we had only a few (quite literally) of each remaining. </p> +<p>An interesting sum was carried out: The value of equivalent proprietary software was estimated to be over £4000 for the pair of CDs &#8211; I actually think that is rather low considering the volume of stuff in the Ubuntu repos including several real Enterprise grade applications such as <a href="http://www.openerp.com/">OpenERP</a> and <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a> &#8211; <strong>so we have potentially delivered a net saving to the education sector of at least £2.5m. And of course this does not include all the free copies that will be made and passed around!</strong></p> +<p><div id="attachment_2129" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand.jpg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand-300x225.jpg" alt="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" title="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2129" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010</p></div>I noticed a real sea-change between this show and last year&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t actually recall speaking to one school or Local Authority this show that had no-idea of, or that wasn&#8217;t aware that they were using, Open Source Software. Most were really proud of their achievements, many were rolling out or had completed roll outs of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> rather than waste many thousands of pounds on unnecessary &#038; proprietary Office Application Suite Licenses. Many more used and raved about <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> &#8211; the ubiquitous audio capture and editing tool. No one I spoke with was reticent toward Open Source and many were keen to talk and share their experiences. This is what the <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/">Open Source Schools</a> project is all about: using the principles of FOSS; of community, collaboration and sharing, and providing a location for this to happen. If you are involved in education and have any interest in Open Source, or even better are an expert, <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/user/register">get involved</a> and share your experience and knowledge gained.</p> +<p>We also found time to meet up with friends and colleagues from <a href="http://www.siriusit.co.uk/">Sirius</a>, Mark Taylor and John Spencer. Sirius has been very successful in the education sector, they are the only Open Source vendor to be on Becta&#8217;s &#8220;approved supplier list&#8221;, and were nominated for an award this year for the work they and <a href="http://www.nwlg.org/">North West Learning Grid</a> others put in to the <a href="http://demo.ndrb.org.uk/visualizadorcontenidos/AcercaDeAgrega/AcercaDeAgrega.do">National Digital Resource Bank</a>.</p> +<blockquote><p>The national digital resource bank will deliver a vast range of publicly funded resources under a creative commons licence and populate your learning platforms, preparing them for effective use.</p> +<p>It will also create a sharing community of educators who will identify, review and improve a common set of national digital assets. </p></blockquote> +<p>The world is really changing very fast. I go to parties and find people in all walks of life (i.e. not IT professionals) who are aware of Open Source, Governments are (some faster than others admittedly) waking up to the reality that FOSS provides significant benefits over proprietary software in many ways more than just money, and Enterprises are adopting not just Open Source Software but the principles behind it too to make their own businesses better. </p> +<p>BETT 2010 confirmed this trend in spades. Roll on BETT 2011.</p> +<p><em>Miles from Open Source Schools and one of the organisers of the event has also posted a review of the show that you can <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/successful-bett.html">read here</a>.</em></p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=BETT+2010+Review&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&t=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/facebook.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?t=BETT+2010+Review&c=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/myspace.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/twitter.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-01-19T09:57:41+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.instapaper.com/go/20164894";> <title>Italo Vignoli: Microsoft Embracing Openness?</title> <link>http://linuxmagazines.com/microsoft-embracing-openness/</link> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.914&r2=1.915 Delta lines: +22 -0 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-01-17 12:00:28+0000 1.914 +++ rss20.xml 2010-01-19 12:00:36+0000 1.915 @@ -8,6 +8,28 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Alan Lord: BETT 2010 Review</title> + <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2104</guid> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/</link> + <description><p><a href="http://www.bettshow.com/"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bett2010.gif" alt="" title="BETT 2010" width="213" height="140" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2123" /></a>It&#8217;s that time of year when around 30,000 educationalists from all over the world descend on Olympia in London for the annual edu-geek-out that is <a href="http://www.bettshow.com/">BETT</a>.</p> +<p>I&#8217;ve been going to BETT now for 3 or 4 years as an exhibitor or just helping to promote Open Source and Free Software with other like minded members of our amazing community.</p> +<p>This year we helped our friends and colleagues at <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/">Open Source Schools</a> and <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">Open Forum Europe</a> on the Open Source Café. The simple objective of the show was to inform the education sector about Open Source and where to find help, advice and common ground with peers who&#8217;ve &#8220;been there&#8221; and &#8220;done that&#8221; already.</p> +<p>This year was, frankly, quite exceptional.</p> +<p>The stand received financial sponsorship from <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</a>, <a href="http://www.linuxit.com/">Linux IT</a>, <a href="http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/">University of London Computing Centre</a> and <a href="http://theingots.org/">The Learning<br /> +Machine (Ingots)</a> for which everyone is very grateful. <a href="http://www.canonical.com/">Canonical</a>, the commercial entity behind <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> very kindly provided us with 600 <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu">Ubuntu</a> 9.10 CDs (500 Desktop and 100 Server) to give away (thanks Larry) and there were a similar number of CDs containing a great collection of Education-centric Open Source desktop applications for Windows from <a href="http://www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk/">Free Software for Students</a> that was compiled and produced by Peter Kemp and David Wilmut. That&#8217;s around 1200 CDs in total full of completely Free goodness and fun. We encouraged all the recipients to copy, share and pass them on too! At the end of the show we had only a few (quite literally) of each remaining. </p> +<p>An interesting sum was carried out: The value of equivalent proprietary software was estimated to be over £4000 for the pair of CDs &#8211; I actually think that is rather low considering the volume of stuff in the Ubuntu repos including several real Enterprise grade applications such as <a href="http://www.openerp.com/">OpenERP</a> and <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a> &#8211; <strong>so we have potentially delivered a net saving to the education sector of at least £2.5m. And of course this does not include all the free copies that will be made and passed around!</strong></p> +<p><div id="attachment_2129" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand.jpg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bettstand-300x225.jpg" alt="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" title="The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2129" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Open Source Cafe at BETT2010</p></div>I noticed a real sea-change between this show and last year&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t actually recall speaking to one school or Local Authority this show that had no-idea of, or that wasn&#8217;t aware that they were using, Open Source Software. Most were really proud of their achievements, many were rolling out or had completed roll outs of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> rather than waste many thousands of pounds on unnecessary &#038; proprietary Office Application Suite Licenses. Many more used and raved about <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> &#8211; the ubiquitous audio capture and editing tool. No one I spoke with was reticent toward Open Source and many were keen to talk and share their experiences. This is what the <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/">Open Source Schools</a> project is all about: using the principles of FOSS; of community, collaboration and sharing, and providing a location for this to happen. If you are involved in education and have any interest in Open Source, or even better are an expert, <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/user/register">get involved</a> and share your experience and knowledge gained.</p> +<p>We also found time to meet up with friends and colleagues from <a href="http://www.siriusit.co.uk/">Sirius</a>, Mark Taylor and John Spencer. Sirius has been very successful in the education sector, they are the only Open Source vendor to be on Becta&#8217;s &#8220;approved supplier list&#8221;, and were nominated for an award this year for the work they and <a href="http://www.nwlg.org/">North West Learning Grid</a> others put in to the <a href="http://demo.ndrb.org.uk/visualizadorcontenidos/AcercaDeAgrega/AcercaDeAgrega.do">National Digital Resource Bank</a>.</p> +<blockquote><p>The national digital resource bank will deliver a vast range of publicly funded resources under a creative commons licence and populate your learning platforms, preparing them for effective use.</p> +<p>It will also create a sharing community of educators who will identify, review and improve a common set of national digital assets. </p></blockquote> +<p>The world is really changing very fast. I go to parties and find people in all walks of life (i.e. not IT professionals) who are aware of Open Source, Governments are (some faster than others admittedly) waking up to the reality that FOSS provides significant benefits over proprietary software in many ways more than just money, and Enterprises are adopting not just Open Source Software but the principles behind it too to make their own businesses better. </p> +<p>BETT 2010 confirmed this trend in spades. Roll on BETT 2011.</p> +<p><em>Miles from Open Source Schools and one of the organisers of the event has also posted a review of the show that you can <a href="http://opensourceschools.org.uk/successful-bett.html">read here</a>.</em></p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&title=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=BETT+2010+Review&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to SlashDot" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/&t=BETT+2010+Review" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/facebook.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to FaceBook" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?t=BETT+2010+Review&c=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/myspace.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to MySpace" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/twitter.png" title="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" alt="Add 'BETT 2010 Review' to Twitter" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:57:41 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Italo Vignoli: Microsoft Embracing Openness?</title> <guid>http://www.instapaper.com/go/20164894</guid> <link>http://linuxmagazines.com/microsoft-embracing-openness/</link> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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