Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Tutkimusprojekti “OACS – Open Access Communication for Science” järjestää Hankenilla Helsingissä 11.4. Wikipedia-workshopin. Workshopin teema: Wikipedia on tutkimusmielessä erittäin kiinnostava world wide webin mahdollistama ilmiö. Sen perustana on “peer production”, jossa tavalliset kansalaiset ja harrastelijat ilman korvausta tuottavat ja muokkaavat tietoja ilmaiseen yhteiseen käyttöön. Vastaavia ilmiöitä ovat muun muassa tutkijoiden Open Access lehdet ja julkaisuarkistot, […]
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Update 5.2.: Juyst noticed that EICPC has posted a summary on the conference. The Finnish art review framework is out with a new issue that contains several articles from a recent conference, “Critique of Creative Industries”, arranged at Kiasma in co-operation with the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Politics. The EICPC has an intersting net […]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
In a recent video Torvalds talks about the change that has happened in recruiting new developers to the kernel community. The bar has risen “because we are so good”; it is harder to get involved while the software is already relatively polished. However, new talent is still coming in. Torvalds: I actually do statistics on […]
The EU Comission has published a report called, succintly, “Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU“. Here is the beef: “Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings […]
Thursday, January 4, 2007
As seen on Slashdot & BoingBoing: The streaming video from the Council of the EU is only available in proprietary formats for Windows and Mac OS, with no support for GNU/Linux. The Council offers this baffling explanation for this sad state of affairs: The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union […]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
A new special issue “Models for Bridging Digital Divides” of the journal E-Learning is now out: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/ELEA/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp Feel free to comment! E-Learning lehden spesiaalinumero otsikolla “Models for Bridging Digital Divides” (vol 3, no 3) on juuri ilmestynyt: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/ELEA/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp Numeron toimittajina ovat Hyperlabralta Nikke, Tiina-Riitta ja minä, juttuja siinä on labralaisten lisäksi asiantuntijoilta ainakin Suomesta, Ugandasta, […]
Eilen yliopistolla pidetyn Open Access-seminaarin materiaalit löytyvät täältä.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Ylen tämänpäivän Keski-Suomen uutiset kertoo Linux-kokeilusta Kortepohjan koulussa Jyväskylässä. Video näkyy 30.11. kello 20.30 asti, sitten tilalle tulee jotain muuta ja uutta.
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