I’ll be traveling to St. Paul, MN on Sunday for the JA-SIG conference. I’ll be there all week, including the post-conference Sakai planning sessions on Thursday and Friday. I’m a co-presenter for one session with Unicon’s Cris Holdorph on integrating Sakai with Peoplesoft. Other than that, the most likely place you will find me during […]
Archive for April, 2008
At the JA-SIG Conference Next Week
Published by April 25th, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsIs Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?
Published by April 24th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsHere’s an interesting bit from D2L’s patent blog:
Clients have been calling us to let us know that Matthew Small, General Counsel of Blackboard, has been calling them. From what we understand, his purpose appears to be twofold: (1) to encourage clients to switch to Blackboard ; and (2) to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) with […]
SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsJim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supported softwares stack for higher education and the mixture of proprietary and open source software in at least some of those stacks strike me as natural steps. I expect that we’ll see more of […]
Great Open Source Conference in Upstate New York
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsUpdate: The dates of the conference are actually June 19-20. Sorry about that.
(Patrick will never let me live this down.)
My friend Patrick Masson has put together a two-day conference at Delhi, NY on May 23-24 that looks terrific. The first day, which is about open source in higher education in general, has tracks on quality, […]
What the Sakai Announcement Means
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentBarry Dahl read the Sakai Foundation’s recent announcement about the Blackboard patent pretty closely and is concerned that it sounds like they think the fight is over. I completely understand why he interpreted it that way, but I read it a little differently. If you look closely at the specifics of the legal situation, the […]
