From hecker at mozillafoundation.org Mon Oct 19 14:56:02 2009 From: hecker at mozillafoundation.org (Frank Hecker) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:56:02 +0000 Subject: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education In-Reply-To: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892D4@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> References: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892D4@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <62f15ff60910190756g40117425x15d2c2993c635ee4@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Lynch G (CCI) wrote: > New to the list, I'm hoping somebody here will have some precedent with the > following and may be able to answer my query. I can't answer your query about certification/affiliate programs involving open source, but had a separate comment to make. > I teach in higher education and have recently validated an undergraduate > degree called Interactive Media for the Arts scheduled to start in September > 2010.? This is a new media arts degree primary aimed at students interested > in creatively engaging with digital / interactive / networked technologies > and applying them both in their own right but also to other disciplines such > as performance, built environments etc. Sounds interesting. Is this the degree to which you're referring? http://www.glam.ac.uk/coursedetails/685/915 > A significant part of the award will employ open source software which has > been targeted specifically at that type of creative individual, e.g. > Processing, Puredata etc. Within the contextual studies for the award we > will also discuss the changes open source as a movement have brought about. Note that as part of our Mozilla Education activities we have an initiative under way specifically to expand the current processing.js work into a complete implementation of Processing for the open web: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb It may be of interest to you or your students. If so please contact me separately and I can tell you more about it. We're very interested in reaching out to and working with people in academia beyond computer science departments. Frank -- Frank Hecker From glynch at glam.ac.uk Mon Oct 19 16:29:35 2009 From: glynch at glam.ac.uk (Lynch G (CCI)) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:29:35 +0100 Subject: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education References: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892D4@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> <62f15ff60910190756g40117425x15d2c2993c635ee4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892DD@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> Hi Yes that's the course, web page is a little sparse at the moment as we are only getting off the ground. As a response to this and the previous email in this thread I just want to clarify that we are not looking to affliate ourselves with a organisation or company using open source - it's an affliation with the movement itself so perhaps OSI or maybe even Creative Commons. That aside I was looking at processing.js a few weeks ago and it looks great as a genuinely viable alternative to using Flash or Shockwave. Hopefully this will re-invigorate the online arts/design community who used to create this sort of interactive animation (e.g. net.art). I'd be keen to see the developments your proposing happen and I'm sure students would too. I've just been chasing up some more info on all of this and curiously came accross this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/uk_unis_loving_linux/ In my experince teaching in higher education in England and Wales a lot of what is said in this article is true. "Open source software is more common on servers than on desktops" because the people who deal with the tech in universities are never too keen to let what they consider as desktop users get there hands on it - there is a trust issue there. Some government policy passed this year but little in the way of pragmatic advice on how to take advantage of it: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cio/transformational_government/open_source.aspx Garrett ---------------------------------------------------------- Garrett Lynch Senior Lecturer in New Media Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries University of Glamorgan -----Original Message----- From: hecker at hecker.org on behalf of Frank Hecker Sent: Mon 10/19/2009 15:56 To: Lynch G (CCI) Cc: osi-edu-discuss at members.opensource.org Subject: Re: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Lynch G (CCI) wrote: > New to the list, I'm hoping somebody here will have some precedent with the > following and may be able to answer my query. I can't answer your query about certification/affiliate programs involving open source, but had a separate comment to make. > I teach in higher education and have recently validated an undergraduate > degree called Interactive Media for the Arts scheduled to start in September > 2010.? This is a new media arts degree primary aimed at students interested > in creatively engaging with digital / interactive / networked technologies > and applying them both in their own right but also to other disciplines such > as performance, built environments etc. Sounds interesting. Is this the degree to which you're referring? http://www.glam.ac.uk/coursedetails/685/915 > A significant part of the award will employ open source software which has > been targeted specifically at that type of creative individual, e.g. > Processing, Puredata etc. Within the contextual studies for the award we > will also discuss the changes open source as a movement have brought about. Note that as part of our Mozilla Education activities we have an initiative under way specifically to expand the current processing.js work into a complete implementation of Processing for the open web: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb It may be of interest to you or your students. If so please contact me separately and I can tell you more about it. We're very interested in reaching out to and working with people in academia beyond computer science departments. Frank -- Frank Hecker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hecker at mozillafoundation.org Mon Oct 19 16:38:44 2009 From: hecker at mozillafoundation.org (Frank Hecker) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38:44 +0000 Subject: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education In-Reply-To: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892DD@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> References: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892D4@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> <62f15ff60910190756g40117425x15d2c2993c635ee4@mail.gmail.com> <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892DD@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <62f15ff60910190938l47017c69t58af39d968566343@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Lynch G (CCI) wrote: > Yes that's the course, web page is a little sparse at the moment as we are > only getting off the ground.? As a response to this and the previous email > in this thread I just want to clarify that we are not looking to affliate > ourselves with a organisation or company using open source - it's an > affliation with the movement itself so perhaps OSI or maybe even Creative > Commons. Understood. I don't know if either OSI or Creative Commons are contemplating formal affiliation/"branding" efforts like what you're suggesting. At Mozilla we are planning a "Drumbeat" initiative around promoting the open web that has aspects of this (see for example the "We Make the Web" idea), but we're still in early stages. Also, Drumbeat is more open web-centric than open source-centric, though open source and "free culture" are two of the movements we're piggybacking on. Frank -- Frank Hecker From acoliver at gmail.com Mon Oct 19 18:19:47 2009 From: acoliver at gmail.com (Andrew Oliver) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:19:47 -0400 Subject: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education In-Reply-To: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892DD@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> References: <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892D4@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> <62f15ff60910190756g40117425x15d2c2993c635ee4@mail.gmail.com> <0245FD9B20FD9E408D4279A97267A36E056892DD@MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <848c74a0910191119n1fe1f8bcv81ce991b9591a835@mail.gmail.com> ATM we're working on the infrastructure to support the education effort. We worked out something of a vision earlier in the year and are collecting some initial materials. I think the main idea is to have a set of master materials in various languages that are coherent with regards to what open source is, how it is made and how one can get involved in open source. From there resources on how people can use this to create their own open source education campaigns based on stuff that has worked for FOSSFA in Africa and similar efforts in India and around the world. And serve as a general forum for organizing and collaborating. I don't think we're likely to get in to this "certification" bits because that requires a specific technology vertical in general. Meaning someone can be fully educated on what open source is and how it works without ever touching the "LAMP" stack. Perhaps they use BSD, Postgresql and OpenJDK/IcedTea or Ruby, etc. -Andy On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Lynch G (CCI) wrote: > Hi > > Yes that's the course, web page is a little sparse at the moment as we are > only getting off the ground.? As a response to this and the previous email > in this thread I just want to clarify that we are not looking to affliate > ourselves with a organisation or company using open source - it's an > affliation with the movement itself so perhaps OSI or maybe even Creative > Commons. > > That aside I was looking at processing.js a few weeks ago and it looks great > as a genuinely viable alternative to using Flash or Shockwave.? Hopefully > this will re-invigorate the online arts/design community who used to create > this sort of interactive animation (e.g. net.art).? I'd be keen to see the > developments your proposing happen and I'm sure students would too. > > I've just been chasing up some more info on all of this and curiously came > accross this: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/uk_unis_loving_linux/ > In my experince teaching in higher education in England and Wales a lot of > what is said in this article is true.? "Open source software is more common > on servers than on desktops" because the people who deal with the tech in > universities are never too keen to let what they consider as desktop users > get there hands on it - there is a trust issue there. > > Some government policy passed this year but little in the way of pragmatic > advice on how to take advantage of it: > http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cio/transformational_government/open_source.aspx > > Garrett > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Garrett Lynch > Senior Lecturer in New Media > Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries > University of Glamorgan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hecker at hecker.org on behalf of Frank Hecker > Sent: Mon 10/19/2009 15:56 > To: Lynch G (CCI) > Cc: osi-edu-discuss at members.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [osi-edu-discuss] Open Souce in Higher Education > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Lynch G (CCI) wrote: >> New to the list, I'm hoping somebody here will have some precedent with >> the >> following and may be able to answer my query. > > I can't answer your query about certification/affiliate programs > involving open source, but had a separate comment to make. > >> I teach in higher education and have recently validated an undergraduate >> degree called Interactive Media for the Arts scheduled to start in >> September >> 2010.? This is a new media arts degree primary aimed at students >> interested >> in creatively engaging with digital / interactive / networked technologies >> and applying them both in their own right but also to other disciplines >> such >> as performance, built environments etc. > > Sounds interesting. Is this the degree to which you're referring? > > ? http://www.glam.ac.uk/coursedetails/685/915 > >> A significant part of the award will employ open source software which has >> been targeted specifically at that type of creative individual, e.g. >> Processing, Puredata etc. Within the contextual studies for the award we >> will also discuss the changes open source as a movement have brought >> about. > > Note that as part of our Mozilla Education activities we have an > initiative under way specifically to expand the current processing.js > work into a complete implementation of Processing for the open web: > > ? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb > > It may be of interest to you or your students. If so please contact me > separately and I can tell you more about it. 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The data, which was stored in a > series of CSV (comma-separated values)-formatted text files, detailed > campaign contributions, candidates, political action committees and > expenditures spanning the 1990 to 2008 election cycles.] > > [For example, I searched for instances of the word "songwriter" in the > occupation field of the individual contributions table and turned up 410 > records out of about 15 million in 0.8 seconds.] > > [I found that while my data set covered 1990 to 2008, my search turned up > results only from 2002 to 2008, which led me to wonder whether the field I'd > searched on had been used in the same way over the entire span of my data > set.] > > [To find out whether this was the case, I searched for "songwriter" across > the whole table, and found 2,229 instances. This broader search took 4.5 > minutes to complete.] > > [The data set, which added up to about 30 million records, encompassed more > than 545 million values, about 49 million of which were unique. Because of > iLuminate's data pool plus index approach, in which each value is stored > only once, there's a sort of deduplication at work here, which saved on > database size. My test database occupied around 10GB of disk space.] [Search > 0.8 seconds; Select 4.5 minutes - tm] > > [I loaded my largest test table?the 15-million-record, CSV-formatted > individual contributions table?with each tool. The Importer took about 1.5 > hours to complete the load, and iLook&Load required about 5.5 hours to do > the job.][Load 6 min/million] > > We're receiving constant inquiries from companies that want to sell our > correlation database, but we're only interested in developing managers with > data warehouse and business intelligence and savvy IT consulting services > and management consulting services firms. 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