On 3/26/11 5:34 PM, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > Looks to me like two more good candidates. I'm glad to see Freshman > and non-techies are perceived as legitimate candidates for Open Source > tools exposure. (Maybe this is where I can mention Make magazine and > the more broad Maker culture. They don't just do software; hardware > and art are legitimate arenas of participation to "Makers". I'll stay > in software, personally.)
I had been thinking about whether Maker culture relates to Open Source culture - I even had a note about that in my draft of my POSSE application, but it didn't make it into my final write-up. I think the two cultures are related, and your comment validates that. I'll be interested in hearing more from people about how to draw connections and comparisons between the two. Certainly sites like Make, and Instructables strike me as examples of open source communities. -- __________________________________________________ Karl R. Wurst Ph.D., Professor and Chair Computer Science, Worcester State University 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA, USA 01602-2597 Email: karl.wu...@worcester.edu Web: http://sharepoint.worcester.edu/faculty/kwurst Phone: +1-508-929-8728 Fax: +1-508-929-8156 _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
