A Professional Organization for School District Chief Technology Officers

Open source links and resources

• Articles and background information:
  • Texas K-12 CTO Council presentation
  • More up-to-date information at the Plano ISD Open Technologies site
  • CoSN Primer on Open Technologies in K-12 Education
  • Open Source Paradigm Shift by Tim O'Reilly
  • The Open Source Initiative
  • K12EdCom - Educational Commons for OpenCourseWare
  • The Semantic Web concept (Firefox extension)
  • OurMedia web storage site
• Operating systems:
  • Linux news - updated daily
  • Novell Linux
  • Redhat Linux
• Applications:
  • The OpenCD.org - open source software for Windows
  • Macintosh OS X open source software library
  • SourceForge.net (open source repository)
  • IHMC Cmap Tools
  • African Schoolnet Toolkit (open source)
• Content:
  • The discussion around open source from Technology Review (June 2005)
    • The People Own Ideas (Lawrence Lessig)
    • The Creators Own Ideas (Richard Epstein)
  • Wide Open - open source methods and their future potential
  • Wikimedia Foundation - source of eight great open content resources
    • Wikibooks takes on textbook publishers (C-NET article)
  • Creative Commons licensing (flexible copyright for our digital age)
    • Yahoo's Creative Commons search engine
  • New York Public Library's Digital Gallery