Summary: This show is dedicated to all things free- Free and Open Source Software that is. We welcome Phil Lacey, President of the Illinois Computing Educators (and FOSS guru) to share with us his favorite free resources, and help explain what all the FOSS is about (had enough of that, yet?). News Watch: This show is inspired by the news that OpenOffice was no longer being supported by Oracle. Lots of schools dumped Microsoft Word for this free version, so how would that impact education? Phil shares his insights and talks about the free alternatives. Blog Watch There’s been a lot of talk about using netbooks in schools and we zero in on Jim Klein’s blog, which is a great resource for FOSS ideas. Twitter Talk Here’s some great Twitter hashtags to follow for FOSS: #opensource #FOSS #SCO #OSS #foss #gnu #ubermix Some great FOSS educators on Twitter: Jim Klein twitter.com/jnetman1 Steve Hargadon twitter.com/stevehargadon Miguel Guhlin: twitter.com/mguhlin (always talks about Linux and Ubuntu and Moodle) Ben Grey: twitter.com/bengrey (currently implementing Jim Klein’s Ubuntu remix on netbooks) On the Radar: Too many to count this week: FOSS: resources- libreoffice.org OpenEducationDisc 10.10 Sharable .iso with ~45 FOSS apps OpenSourceMac Similar to Open Education Disc for Mac Ubuntu – download .iso for desktop or netbook versions Edubuntu – http://www.edubuntu.org/ KDE Education Project – http://edu.kde.org/ http://www.k12opensource.com/ Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching: OFSET – PROJECTS OFSET is actively promoting and developing free software for schools. http://www.osalt.com/ Open Source as an Alternative http://www.opensource.org/ Open Source Initiative Phil offered so many resources- thanks so much! Follow Phil on Twitter @philacey
