Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Trying out Ubuntu..

A few weeks ago I reclaimed my parents old 15″ Sony Vaio from its quiet retirement in a corner of their back room and decided to try and bring it back to life using the restorative power of open source! I haven’t had much success with the various flavours of Ubuntu in the past –…

October 10, 2010
Mary Lou Forward [mozilladrumbeat]

Mary Lou Forward is the Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an international organisation that has a vision of improving global education by making high quality learning materials free and open for all. Mary Lou has spent a good part of her academic career in Africa and most recently was Dean of African Studies for…

October 9, 2010
Q and A with Mary Lou Forward

This is the full Q and A with Mary Lou Forward from OCWC – the edited blogpost is available at http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 What are you going to do in Barcelona? Really looking forward to both Drumbeat and OpenEd. They are both pulling together great minds to explore what openness means in education. This is a great…

October 9, 2010
Pete Ferne

[UPDATE: Maisie, Pete’s daughter, has set up a site in his memory http://peteferne.org/ ] Pete Ferne (@petef) passed away today. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer after some initial symptoms that he seemed to recover from and his condition quickly deteriorated once it was identified. I worked with Pete at Jiva…

October 7, 2010
When Drumbeat met the School of Everything

[originally on the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival blog] There can’t be many start-ups out there who have a mission more in tune with the aims of the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival than School of Everything. Launched in the summer of 2008 it was built around the belief that ‘everyone has something to learn and everyone has something…

October 6, 2010