ANGEL Learning has announced that they have incorporated TiddlyWiki into their product and that they have released the source code to the enhancements. What the announcement doesn’t mention is that the company also made a financial contribution to TiddlyWiki’s main developer Jeremy Ruston in recognition and support of his work.
I happen to have had a number of conversations with the ANGEL folks about this move, starting from early in their process, and I must say that they made every effort to do this right. They put a fair amount of thought, for example, into where they should contribute the code and considered donating it back to the TiddlyWiki community before settling on EduForge. It’s sometimes difficult for a smallish company to figure out an affordable way to productively contribute back to open source; I hope that other educational software products, including open source and proprietary LMSs, pick up on ANGEL’s contribution and help to build a larger community around it. TiddlyWiki is a great tool for teaching and I think that ANGEL’s enhancements to it are rather clever.
Kudos to ANGEL Learning for understanding and respecting the work of an open source community.
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[...] ANGEL的开源行动 这真有趣。Angel是一个流行的LMS（学习管理系统），主要在企业级获得应用。这家公司刚刚在他们的产品中嵌入了wiki，而且他们利用的是开源的Tiddly Wiki。他们在SourceForge上发布了调整过的代码，并且为Tiddly Wiki项目带来了经济回报。我同意 Michael feldstein的意见，他们应该因为就此付出的努力得到人们的赞扬。Michael Feldstein, e-Literate October 11, 2007 [原文链接] [Tags: Open Source, Project Based Learning] [参与评论] [...]