Pamela McLean wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection. I
recently passed a Compact Flash containing a number of key
presentations from IT Conversations to a colleague in rural Guyana.
In his village he doesn't even have a computer, let alone
Andy Carvin wrote:
From the Washington Post... -ac
BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash
There is a fundamental problem with Torrent file-sharing. That is there
is a central point at which the torrent file information is held. As a
consequence a succesfull attack on that central hub can
Colin Mutchler wrote:
I would add that this is not such a simple issue. While I am not a
lawyer, there are several who have told me that fair use can be applied
to a much larger degree that we currently think. The legal grey area
that you find yourself in is one of the failures of our current
Debbee Williams wrote:
OK...to quote my frustrated 5 year old nephew, I need help.
I work for a non-profit organization, we have recently started providing
digital arts programs. Creating movies, music, photo manipulation, etc.
As part of the movies and some of the multi-media presentations we are
Taran Rampersad wrote:
Claude Almansi wrote:
Burrokeet (? http://www.burrokeet.org/ a kind of FOSS Office suite?
Burrokeet I know something about, though the main people behind
Burrokeet are on the list (or so I believe). Ross Gardler is one of
them, and can talk about the project better
Claude Almansi wrote:
We have very big plans for it and welcome any technically
minded people to examine it and help out (we not really ready for the
non-techie people - it just isn't friendly enough yet).
I'll wait. When you are ready for dummy-proofing it, let me know. Andy
Carvin can certify
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Steve Eskow
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Subject: Re: [DDN] FW: [NIFL-HEALTH:4627] Adult Literacy
education Wiki
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I'd like to try summarizing
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It can
I see no evidence that this will help adult literacy in any
large amount. At best it is an unfounded hope.
Would you care to explain your reasoning for this statement? The original
post provided some good arguments for the use of a Wiki, mainly focussed on
the use of the Wiki as more ordered
