We talk about killer applications, the killer app, which are programs so good they change the nature of a situation. Email is long considered a general audience killer app, when you think about the impact it has had over the years. For educators, is Moodle the killer app? Sure looks like it. This is written […]
Category Archives: Events
Moodle as a killer K-12 app
06-Mar-09Stumbling around in the K-12 space
06-Mar-09This week I’m fulfilling a talk obligation that David Nalley and I set up last Fall, to talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom. In particular, this is the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) conference, with teachers and technology coordinators from K-12 districts across the country. K-12 is short-hand for primary […]
It’s more than a passing FAD — the bad
23-Feb-09Continuing the thought output from the first North American Fedora Activity Day (FAD) at SCaLE 7x, this post details the mistakes that we made and so should be learning from. Yes, the turn out was good and I said it is stronger than I realized, but … where are my West Coast homies?  I tend […]
It’s more than a passing FAD — the good
21-Feb-09Writing the next day, it’s a bit hard to put myself back in the mindset of Friday morning and remember why, by 10 am, I was chewing nails, an idiom which here means, pretty angry and gnashing teeth over it. But I think it’s pretty important for me to air the parts of the event […]
You may let go of your breath now, the wiki for the Google Summer of Code 2008 Mentor Summit is now available. (It took a little bit for all the mentors to have a chance to remove any content that was not intended for public view, since the original wiki had been mentors-only with people’s […]
Where are your FUDCon session notes?
16-Jan-09One (of the many) things I appreciated about the last Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was the immediate availability of session notes on the wiki. For each session, people wrote a wiki page and linked to it from the main schedule. I may even have started this practice two years ago, when only the […]
Finding content output from FUDCon F11
10-Jan-09The main schedule … http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_BarCamp_schedule … has links to some pages, and hopefully people are adding more. Ideally they add [[Category:FUDConF11 BarCamp sessions]] to their page, too, so they get included in this page … http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FUDConF11_BarCamp_sessions I’ve extracted promises from most of the video/audio crew to do uploads of whatever we can tonight, at the […]
This morning the first smile I had was when I looked back over my shoulder at the Boston Cambridge Marriott to see not only my own Fedora window sign, but the signs of many others. (There is a small cluster of folks on the 19th floor.) The signs are a small brilliancy that came from […]
Formula for making distance work
16-Sep-08Because I have to miss the North American Fedora Ambassadors Day, I’m thinking (as usual!) about the challenges of remotely working with people. Once again, here is a stellar opportunity to figure out how to include the non-there-in-person parts of the community. Especially around planning and decision sessions, which are different from the what a […]
Thanks Linux Pro Magazine for getting together some community folks from various Linux distros and letting us appear, in a side-by-side comparison, as nearly identical. ;-D This is not a criticism! It just shows there is a certain amount of convergence in the popular Linux distros, no matter how many comparison shootouts people are holding. […]